World History
I have been using Splicd.com to quickly show only the portion of a youtube video I want in class. It is great for schools where youtube is blocked. But two others that you can use are ViewPure and SafeShare.tv which also give you a new url which will get you around the block your school may have. I found these last two at a new blog I follow called "The Pursuit of Education Technology Happiness."
- Using Youtube In Your Classroom
I found this great slide show on Crash Course for Educators which I found from one of the communities I follow on Google+. Soon I will do a post on all the amazing new teacher and technology posts you can follow as they are growing quickly....
- Individualizing Education Using Technology
There were many reasons why I had a great day yesterday when Richard Culatta, who is the Director of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, spent the day in my classroom. In between my two classes, we spent several hours sharing...
- Splicd
I'll take the cue from George in the post below. If you want to show a portion of a Youtube video, all you need to do is to go to Splicd and enter in the url as well as the starting and ending point and you can omit the rest of the video. For...
- Syncing Your Desktop W. Google Docs
Some might call me crazy, but having read three books on the inner workings of Google, I am not at all worried about the company losing my files and have consequently not backed up one file I have made this year. But for those of you who want to...
- Real Player
This is a follow up on the earlier post about embedding videos into a PowerPoint - if you use the new version of Real Player, it will allow you to download videos from sites like YouTube (or any other website that streams video). Real Player has a pop-up...
World History
Youtube Blocked At Your School?
- Using Youtube In Your Classroom
I found this great slide show on Crash Course for Educators which I found from one of the communities I follow on Google+. Soon I will do a post on all the amazing new teacher and technology posts you can follow as they are growing quickly....
- Individualizing Education Using Technology
There were many reasons why I had a great day yesterday when Richard Culatta, who is the Director of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, spent the day in my classroom. In between my two classes, we spent several hours sharing...
- Splicd
I'll take the cue from George in the post below. If you want to show a portion of a Youtube video, all you need to do is to go to Splicd and enter in the url as well as the starting and ending point and you can omit the rest of the video. For...
- Syncing Your Desktop W. Google Docs
Some might call me crazy, but having read three books on the inner workings of Google, I am not at all worried about the company losing my files and have consequently not backed up one file I have made this year. But for those of you who want to...
- Real Player
This is a follow up on the earlier post about embedding videos into a PowerPoint - if you use the new version of Real Player, it will allow you to download videos from sites like YouTube (or any other website that streams video). Real Player has a pop-up...