Most learning providers still block YouTube and other video sharing sites, despite the fact that they provide a fantastic source of educational material. I personally disagree with this stance, but that is the subject of another post.

Many practitioners resort to downloading YouTube videos at home and then bringing them to their place of work, but this can put off some people because they either have to install third party applications or convert the video files so they are in a suitable format for Windows Media player.

KickYouTube does away with all this, since it allows you to search for any YouTube video and then download it in the format of your choice.

There are two ways of accessing and downloading video clips:

1.- The simple way - Find the video in YouTube and then simply type in the word kick after the www. in your browser’s url bar (see below), this will take you KickYouTube’s own page. e.g.

• Select the format you wish to download
• Click GO
• Right-click the download button and select Save As...

2.- Simply go directly to KickYouTube’s own page and search for the video there (then do as for Number 1 above.

Although there are alternative sites for downloading YouTube videos, such as Zamzar and YouConvertIt, etc,. KickYouTube simplifies the process considerably: simply type in kick and that’s it.

Go on try it out, you know you want to!