I was not able to download videos using Keepvid or PWNYoutube. I am working on this at school and both sites were blocked. However, I was successful using Zamzar. Although it is easy to use, I don't like the lag time that it takes. I first tried a very small cute Sesame street video (letter W for water, wind, waves and wet - since I am on this wave unit in science) that is short and not a large file at all. It took about a 1/2 hour for me to receive the email that I could download. It took longer to receive a slightly larger file - the surfing video (biggest wave ever surfed). I have yet to try the Bill Nye wave video song. The resolution does not seem to be as good as projecting the video from Youtube directly.
I don't know how I am supposed to be adding comments to the video I imbedded. Maybe I am misinterpreting what I am to be doing: Am I to submit comments about this video on my blog or to the Youtube site where I am found the video (which I already had for the previous Thing)?
One thing I'd like to know (and I haven't looked ahead so maybe it's one of the Things we'll learn to do yet) is that since I can see me accumulating quite a few of these downloaded videos to enhance the units, I need to be able to organize them and make them easily accessible from my computer. My desktop is getting quite cluttered!
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You would probably have more success with keepvid at home. Or, try a different browser. Also, you might want to create a folder on your desktop and put all of these resources into it to keep your desktop from getting too cluttered.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, everything is looking good and you're doing a great job.