So throughout this entire process of 23Things, I've bemoaned my lack of time. And now, just as I was thinking that things are progressing at a steadier, speedier pace I am now are told about Zamzar, which sounds like a dream-come-true for those of us who have been denied access to YouTube, despite heaps of educationally-sound rationales for why we need that access, but in reality is going to take "almost 45 minutes" to download the forbidden fruit from YouTube so we can embed it into our blog... (yes, that is quite a run-sentence -- but how can I come up for breath when time is of the essence ?? :-)
I guess if I were reallllllly desperate to show something to my students or fellow-teachers from YouTube, Zamzar provides the answer.
[sudden scarey thought: could Zamzar be a distant relative of Zangle perhaps?]
Day2 for Thing22: I've tried out Zamzar and it actually took only ten minutes for the first conversion to reach my email, fifteen minutes for the second, and less than ten for the third. HUZZZAHHHH!!! but I imagine on a busy day, the wait-time would be much much longer as the tutorial in 23Things warned us about.
This was saved as a wvm. I know it opens on my computer but a clip downloaded from Zamzar as a flv version would not open directly from the download while on my computer. So I'll play the scientist and experiment by adding it here to see if it opens while in Blogger:
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Well, now that the sun is up and I've had some sleep :-) I've been exploring Zamzar and downloading a couple videos. The first two versions (flv formats) would not open for me. But I've tried wvm and my Media Center WILL open it, so I'm good to go now. I'll add it to this posting and see how it flies.
If you want to view .flv files on your computer, you need a player that will recognize them. I use a free player call VLC available at: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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