Monday, April 26, 2010

Download Online Video for Classroom Use

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Daniusoft Video Converter Free


Daniusoft Video Converter Free is an easy-to-use and intuitive free Video Converter that can handles all video audio even HD videos in batch conversion mode, this great Video Converter can not only convert video/HD Video to AVI, WMV, MPEG, MOV, FLV, MP4 easily and quickly. but also can extract audio from video to MP3, WAV, WMA.

Thus, With this free Video Converter Software, you can convert video to YouTube compatible video formats FLV to share your movie on internet, make your video files editable as wmv, avi so you could load them on Windows Movie Maker, or convert video for portable media players like iPod, PSP, Zune, mobile phone, etc.

In addition, this best free video converter allows you to DIY your video with video editing options: cropping video, trimming video length, merging two or more video clips, adjusting video effect etc.

 
Other sites you can use to download YouTube videos for use on your local hard drive.

Catch YouTube is a free tool for converting and downloading YouTube videos. Catch YouTube offers eight formats for video conversion. The video conversions are fairly quick depending on the length of the video.

Convert My Tube is a free service that allows you to convert a video to your choice of eight different formats for use on your local hard drive. To use Convert My Tube, simply enter the url of the video you want converted, select your desired format, and then download the video.

YouTube Snips is another good tool for downloading YouTube videos for use offline. To use YouTube Snips simply enter the the url of your chosen video and download the video in your preferred format. YouTube Snips gives you the choice of three formats, MP4, 3GP, and FLV. In my test of YouTube Snips the download was very quick.

http://mediaconverter.org/

Additonal video resources for teachers provided by Richard Byrne a high school social studies teacher from his blog http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://snagfilms.com/
http://schooltube.com/
http://dotsub.com/
http://teachertube.com/
http://ted.com/
http://history.com/
http://bigthink.com/
http://fora.tv/
http://current.tv/

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Posted by: Jim Fargione
District Lead Teacher for Instructional Technology
Three Village School District