Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Start Youtube Videos Where You Want

Youtubetime.com is a website that allows you to enter the URL for a Youtube video and a specific start time.  The site then provides you with a link that will start the video at a specific point.  This is good for classrooms, where a teacher might want to show only part of a video.  Instead of the teacher loading the video and having to try to find the part they want to show each time, they can do it one time and save the link provided by Youtubetime.com.  Note: you want to use the actual URL not the embed code.



This can be done without Youtubetime by simply adding the following to a Youtube URL.  #t=XmXXs.  So, if I wanted to start 24 seconds into a video, I would add #t=0m24s to the end of the URL.  For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8 would become http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8#t=0m24s

The advantage of using this website is that you don't have to remember this code and it is easy to share this trick with other people.

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