IMPORTANT! However your situation should develop throughout the day, you will not have to worry about driving to the lab this afternoon. Stay home!
Please let me know that you received this!!!!
As you know, today will be our last class and it will be abbreviated. In view of the ongoing snow storm (I've been up since 3am in anticipation, I guess), we will not be meeting in the lab this afternoon. Hold on...I can hear the distant sobbing and wailing from here. I'm sure that you're all disappointed, but pull yourselves together and break out the snuggies everyone!
We'll wrap up any unfinished business online in my office at TI this afternoon after 4:00. Most of you have sent me your project links and I'll spend the rest of the morning and early afternoon going through them. After that I'll complete grades tonight and tomorrow and submit them by hand in the morning. Providing that I receive your work as an attachment or links to it today, MEC will have your grades on Thursday.
I do have some work that I must complete for a couple of you which I will finish later on today, but before 4:00 in case any changes need to take place.
I will also be posting some information regarding the procedure (as requested by Andrea and germane to most of you) I developed for downloading (with open source software) YouTube videos.
I'll be posting the lesson with all the details and links which would allow you to bypass any filtration settings by placing the videos on a CD and running them independent of your school network.
The important issue from my side is that I'll need assurances from you that you won't forget to fill out an evaluation form (I'll create a PDF for you and email it as an attachment or I'll place it on the Web and send you the link) and mail it to Isabelle. I'll be letting her know that she should be expecting them in the mail because our last class took place online and not in the lab-more about that later.
You can email me throughout the day with any questions.
Now to the lesson on YouTube. During our last class, Andrea expressed some frustration with problems regarding YouTube. If I can recall, she said something about her school network blocking them and/or an inability to download them.
I wanted to simulate problems that you may run into so I located a favorite instructional YouTube video on folding a shirt in seconds just as an example. Then I wanted to download it to my hard drive and run it later much as you would do for your students.
Well, I found a couple of pieces of software, both free and open source that could help her in her efforts and may be of interest to you as well.
The first one from sourceforge is called xVideoServiceThief. Do not let the "T" word scare you. Sourceforge represents the wonderful people who freely gave us Audacity among other superb programs. Mac or PC, you can go to http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/ and download the applicable version for you.
When you unpack it, you'll see a small number of files and folders. I used another cool, free, and open source screen recorder program called CamStudio to make a short video for you which shows the files I'm taking about and how to paste a YouTube URL of a video that you want to download into the operative box. You can see my video later at: http://cgi.mec.edu/~groves/videothief.avi. When you've downloaded your target video it will be deposited into the "Downloads" folder. You can access it there.
You'll need a second (open source as well) program to view it. It's called FLVPlayer and it's available through Applian Technologies at http://download.cnet.com/FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10467081.html or http://applian.com/. I made a second vid for you using CamStudio again that shows you how to "drag and drop" technique to run a captured YouTube video with FLVPlayer. You can see that by going to: http://cgi.mec.edu/~groves/shirtflvplayer.avi
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