To block or not to block that is the ...

My wife was planning a lesson for her Y3/4 class on plane shapes and as an interesting sideline she found a video on YouTube that was about origami (!) ... so she set off to school the next day, wound up her whiteboard, went to Youtube and ... nothing ... her kind service provider had blocked it ... lesson over !

So, asking around my friends I (we) came up with this solution ...

Firstly use Firefox as your browser
Search for 'Unplug' and download it
It will install a neat little button on your Firefox toolbar that when you go to YouTube and find a video you want, clicking on this button will allow you to 'unplug' it from YouTube so that it can be played on its own ... well not quite because it comes in a format that needs a player ... it is in 'flv' format.
So next you search for an 'flv' format player and there are numerous of these (I do not say sanction the one linked it was just the first one I came across and it worked for me)
This installed and the file downloaded into Firefox ( when I had associated it in the 'open with' thingy) ran like a dream.

I even found a utility to convert the 'flv' to 'avi' etc ... but that is another techy story and I am not one for reading those.

So to complete this ramble my wife went off to school with a USB stick on which was the exe file of the 'flv' player and a number of downloaded 'flv' files she had extracted from YouTube ... Result ! Teaching can now resume.