Social+Media

Social Media
Most social media sites like YouTube and Flickr are blocked on the GCPS network. While these sites are a jungle of various content, they contain a lot of good quality educational content. There are tools you can use to download some of this content to your computer for reuse in the classroom. The You Tube and Teacher Tube videos are saved or downloaded into the .flv format.Check out the following video downloading tools.

[|YouTube Downloader]- Download videos from YouTube for use in your classroom [|TeacherTube Downloader] - Download videos from TeacherTube for use in your clasroom

However it's a bit easier now, if you don't want to download the downloader. You can use another free product called Any Video Converter and convert the YouTube url into a file that you can use. These are the options for video file transfer: AVI, WMV, MPG, MP4, MKV, SWF, FLV and popular audio formats including MP3, M4A, OGG, WAVE, WMA. now you can embed this file into your course, wiki, etc. Here is a short video on how to use Any Video Converter:

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