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thelmadatter · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: you tube

You Tube is not set up to download the videos (they wanna keep you coming back to the site). Technocrati says that have made a download tool but I havent been able to get it to work. Maybe one of ya'll will have better luck

http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/

Also, for commericials.. www.adeater.com (go to the library) will let you download most of their stuff. However, much of the audio and some of the video quality leaves something to be desired.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Something I've found useful: www.youtubex.com

If you find a video on youtube.com, copy the URL address and go to youtubex.com. If you paste the URL in, youtubex downloads the video to your desktop as a *.FLV (Flash Video) format.

You can also download a free FLV video player for Windows (don't know about Mac or Linux machines...)

You can then play the video on your laptop anywhere, anytime.

cangringo · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 327 Location: Vancouver, Canada

I know textbooks are not usually the best or easiest teaching method but if you must use them these are the best. The American Streamline series from Oxford and American Inside Out Series from MacMillan. Both are excellent teaching tools. The Streamline series is especially good for Latin Americans because it teaches the grammar without going through all the rules etc. Inside Out has more grammar but it's very easy to teach.

The Inside Out series come with workbooks, student books and the teacher's books as well as cd's which can get expensive but you can use the workbooks and make your own lesson plans.

We also use movies, books etc.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

Yes, that was a fabulous tip. Cool

FreddyM · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 180 Location: Mexico

Here's how I download videos...

on a Windows machine, I use Firefox. There is an extension called videodownloader (go to mozilla.org and search for the extension there), and it will add a little icon to your browser to let you download videos from not only YouTube, but a bunch of other video websites. The plugin is also available at videodownloader.net. That site will probably work with other browsers as well.
The videos are saved as flash videos (*.flv), so you need a flash player as well. I use a freebie software called VLC (video media player) that will play nearly any type of video format, and has a bunch of cool little tweaking tools as well. You can find that at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
For other types of files, I use a site called fotosearch.com, it is loaded with photos and clip art and you can search by keywords. It's great for visuals.
My mp3 player has a connecting port to hook it up to a televison set, but I don't have the cable for it. A laptop and a TV, or projector, and you can make all your lessons majorly hi-tech, with visuals, photos, audio, mp3s, videos, whatever you can dream up.