Education 2.0 & 3.0

A good video clip mixed into a presentation can be helpful in emphasizing a point, illustrating a concept, or just providing a quick comedic moment. If you use Google Slides, you have a few ways to insert videos into your presentations. You can use YouTube, use Google Drive, or use the Screencastify Google Slides add-on.

Last week I answered an email from a reader who was trying to help one of her colleagues with a classroom video project. They wanted to know if it was possible to download YouTube videos or to make a screencast of a YouTube video to then use in another video. My response was to point out that the first option, downloading from YouTube with a 3rd party service is a violation of YouTube’s terms of service (section 5) unless there is a download link provided by YouTube. Making a screencast of a YouTube video is also a violation of the terms of service as well as being a likely copyright infringement.