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A Clever Trick to Play YouTube Videos without Distractive Features

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Today, however, we are sharing with you a very great hack we learned from Daniel Russel. This tip is about forcing the video to fill the browser and exclude all other distractive features. This is a great way to use YouTube videos with your students and here is how it works.

This is how the landing page to a youTuve video looks like

Now to force the video to take all the page, you need to take the original URL of the video and add “watch_popup” to it.

For instance this URL is the original URL of a video by Ken Robenson :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Now add _popup right between watch and ?v and you will have this modified URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Click on the modified url to see how it will play.

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Meet Med Kharbach, PhD

Dr. Med Kharbach is an influential voice in the global educational technology landscape, with an extensive background in educational studies and a decade-long experience as a K-12 teacher. Holding a Ph.D. from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada, he brings a unique perspective to the educational world by integrating his profound academic knowledge with his hands-on teaching experience. Dr. Kharbach's academic pursuits encompass curriculum studies, discourse analysis, language learning/teaching, language and identity, emerging literacies, educational technology, and research methodologies. His work has been presented at numerous national and international conferences and published in various esteemed academic journals.