Visual Tutorial: Ripping YouTube Videos and Posting with Creative Commons License

Part I: Ripping YouTube Videos

• Start in Mozilla Firefox browser
• From the Menu, select Tools > Add Ons

• On the left-hand tab, select "Get Add Ons" then search "Flash Video Downloader" in the upper-right-hand search bar (you can also search "YouTube Downloader" which will give you different results but most of them work just fine).

For the Extension/Add-On that I use and like, go to the bottom of your search results and click "see all 394 results"

• The first result in the new window will be "Flash Video Downloader" (with a blue arrow) - click on "Add to Firefox" then select "Install" when a window pops up to prompt you

• Restart Firefox
• Once you've restarted the browser, when you go to YouTube you will see a blue arrow to the right of the URL window. Click on this when you've visited a particular video's page and you will see various options for file types to download. *Note: you may want to  always select "Low" versions of mp4s to be safe and not take up too much space on your computer.

Part Two - Selecting/Posting a Creative Commons License

• Visit Creative Commons - About the Licenses
• Read about the various licenses, what viewers are allowed to do with each license and decide which one you prefer

• Go to Licenses > Choose a License

• Fill in the two left boxes with your preferences for what you will allow audiences to do with your work (adaptations means people can remix your work, commercial use means people can use your work/adaptations of your work for profit)

• Copy the code in the bottom-right box 

• Go to Blogger.com > select "Communication in the Digital Age" from your blogs (this will only work if you accepted my invitation to contribute to the blog -- if you can't get permission to contribute to the blog, simply email me your link and the code for your license and I will post it for you)

• Select "New Post" - the orange button in the top left

• Select the "HTML" button that is in the upper left corner

• Once you've posted the link/embed code to your media, paste the code for the creative commons license AFTER the link:

• Once you tab back to "compose" in the top left, you will see the CC License

• Hit "Publish" -- You may give your brief (100 word) reflection on the experience either within the post, in a comment, or on Canvas. Then you're done!