Beyond School

SplashCast: Channel Yourself Across the Web

• Ahh. This is what I was looking for: with Splashcast, you can upload a Powerpoint AND record voice-overs for each slide, embed Youtubes, etc. Now we’re talking.

  The interface is weird on my Mac–preview player won’t pop up, for example–but overall it’s the most muscular free tool I’ve seen for this purpose. And they have decent screencast tutorials. - post by cburell

Download YouTube Videos: 23 Tools

• From Mashable: “Google has a solid amount of cash in its pockets, but with all the recent lawsuits against YouTube one has to wonder if it’s time to salvage whatever videos you like from the service and save them somewhere where evil attorneys won’t look – your hard drive.

  “Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It’s hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we’ve chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we’ve found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:…”

  - post by cburell

10 Interesting Things You Can Do with YouTube or Google Videos at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide

• Very nice article with free tools for most video-mashing needs.
  - post by cburell

Mojiti

• I know it’s old news, but from the site:

  “We make it easy for you to personalize any video. Use Mojiti Spots to narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles in any language, or just comment on any scene to share your thoughts and opinions. Dive into the experience and tell the story your way!” - post by cburell

Technology Review: Moving Beyond YouTube

• Interesting ideas for mashup projects for the classroom:

  “The corporate collaborations are part of Jumpcut’s business model: in an effort to increase brand awareness, companies provide clips and offer prizes for the best user-edited short videos. Previous contests include remixing the trailer to the 2006 film A Scanner Darkly and putting together a short movie from a collection of New Line horror-film clips. A current promotion sponsored by the chip company Doritos has put out a call for a user-edited chip commercial that will air during the Super Bowl.
  So far, more than 300 commercials have been submitted, and some of them
  are surprisingly good, says Yahoo’s Zajac.”

  Of course, we could adapt such ideas to better purposes than selling Doritos, for crying out loud. - post by cburell

Edit YouTube Videos with Windows Movie Maker

• –A handy “how-to” for downloading YouTube videos and and converting them for use in Windows MovieMaker. Wonderful for encouraging students to select only that right few seconds of video for a mashup.

  From the site: “To edit YouTube videos in Windows Movie Maker you need to do a couple of things. First you need to download the video from YouTube. Next you need to convert the video from the FLV file from YouTube to a video format supported by Windows Movie Maker (like WMV).” - post by cburell

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