Comments on: Power of digital text http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/21/power-of-digital-text/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:10:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Charlene http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/21/power-of-digital-text/#comment-31122 Charlene Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:20:08 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/21/power-of-digital-text/#comment-31122 Hi Wes, thanks for the link on the downloader... I have also used Video Downloader 2.0 which, provides a plugin for Firefox. When you arrive at a video you'd like to capture, there is a small icon at the bottom right corner of the browser window... click and the download begins. http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php Enjoy! Charlene Hi Wes, thanks for the link on the downloader… I have also used Video Downloader 2.0 which, provides a plugin for Firefox. When you arrive at a video you’d like to capture, there is a small icon at the bottom right corner of the browser window… click and the download begins.

http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

Enjoy!
Charlene

]]> By: Swimming In The River » I’m a Skype-er! http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/21/power-of-digital-text/#comment-31120 Swimming In The River » I’m a Skype-er! Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:58:48 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/02/21/power-of-digital-text/#comment-31120 [...] I have also been working on a powerpoint presentation that I will be giving tomorrow in my graduate class (which is a weekly videoconferencing-based class with 3 other sites.  Our professor is in Arizona, and two other sites from Missouri join us - way cool!) on a chapter in the book, Cultures of Curriculum (my assigned chapter was “Confronting the Dominant Order” - more to come on a future post).  I really wanted to embed a video from YouTube to better illustrate the social experiment carried out by third grade teacher June Elliott back in 1971.  Not being able to figure out how to do that in PowerPoint, I just put a link on the appropriate slide.  But in doing so, I worried that I needed a back up just in case the Internet was down, or the connection not working during class tomorrow night.  Thank goodness for Wesley Fryer’s Post “Power Of Digital Text” which alerted me to the idea of saving YouTube videos using the free YouTube Downloader.  I also needed to download a free FLV player because that is the file extension with which the videos are saved.  Now, as a back up plan, I have the video saved on my hard drive!     Now I can go to bed!  AHHHH! [...] [...] I have also been working on a powerpoint presentation that I will be giving tomorrow in my graduate class (which is a weekly videoconferencing-based class with 3 other sites.  Our professor is in Arizona, and two other sites from Missouri join us - way cool!) on a chapter in the book, Cultures of Curriculum (my assigned chapter was “Confronting the Dominant Order” - more to come on a future post).  I really wanted to embed a video from YouTube to better illustrate the social experiment carried out by third grade teacher June Elliott back in 1971.  Not being able to figure out how to do that in PowerPoint, I just put a link on the appropriate slide.  But in doing so, I worried that I needed a back up just in case the Internet was down, or the connection not working during class tomorrow night.  Thank goodness for Wesley Fryer’s Post “Power Of Digital Text” which alerted me to the idea of saving YouTube videos using the free YouTube Downloader.  I also needed to download a free FLV player because that is the file extension with which the videos are saved.  Now, as a back up plan, I have the video saved on my hard drive!     Now I can go to bed!  AHHHH! [...]

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