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EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online
This weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education. The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant miscellaneous topics in science, computing, and education. The EduResources Weblog operates in conjunction with a broader weblog called The Open Learner about using open knowledge resources across a diversity of subjects, levels, and interests for a wide range of learners and learning communities--students in schools and colleges, home schoolers, hobbyists, vocational learners, retirees, and others.
        

Monday, September 24, 2007

I don't often report about software or hardware in this weblog, but since many short educational videos are now available online, it is relevant to point to this exceptional tool. Anytime you come across a useful video in YouTube or some other online site you will be faced with the problem of how to save it (simply bookmarking the site is not adequate, because frequently the video will disappear by the next time you visit). Vixy.net provides the best video file conversion service that I've found. The site does contain advertisements, but the software is entirely open source. ____JH

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"This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.  When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file."

 


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