You Tube Converted: Converting movies to your Video iPod

Maybe you are wondering if it is possible to convert a You Tube movie to play in your Video iPod?
The answer is yes. Perhaps this is easier than you would believe it to be!
Try out the links below for the MAC and PC too!

For the MAC users

TubeSock
TubeSock is a neat little shareware app that automatically downloads your favorite YouTube videos, and converts them for your iPod, PSP, or Mac.
For the trial you can only download 30 second videos from YouTube.

Faculty Reference Link

From Richard Regan

PodTube v1.0
Encode any YouTube video for your iPod.
And? Simply and quickly download, encode
for iPod and add to your iTunes library any
YouTube video you browse with,
Safari, in a single click!

Let’s Remember Video iPods are for the PC World too!

Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your iPod with few clicks. The program is a freeware and does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Quivic allows you to download video from YouTube. Quivic then converts the video so you can play it on your PC, iPod or PSP.

You Tube Movie: Cited Reference Searching
Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering Videos:
The Georgia Institute of Technology

In brief: The author, Brian,(librarian as well as computer science and distance learning), of the following You Tube movie actually makes a forthright comparison of citing references and using My Space and social spaces.

You might find yourself thinking about citing references in a different way!
Students may also become engaged in this You Tube movie as well.

YouTube presents new possibilities!

Users can now record video on their webcams directly to YouTube. This came to my attention via the Distant Librarian blog. http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2006/12/idea_for_screen.html

Collaborative Spaces: “What’s a Wiki?”

Welcome to Investigating Collaborative Spaces:
“What’s a Wiki?”

One of the more enhanced tools for social networking is called a Wiki.

Main Entry: wiki
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content
Etymology: 1995;
Usage: sometimes cap.

Faculty Reference Link:
Professor Stewart Mader recently released wiki-based book, Using Wiki in Education, which is a compilation of case studies showing how teachers are using the wiki in a variety of environments. 10/26/2006

Professor Stewart Mader, senior instructional technologist in life sciences at Brown University, gave a good general talk about wikis followed by a few examples in education.

Faculty join social networks to connect with students

From the Kept-up Academic Librarian blog.

Library commercial on YouTube

Testing how to embed a YouTube video into a blog. Click to watch, it’s only 39 seconds.

Flickr

Flickr’s an awesome image software that I’ve been using for almost a couple of years now personally. And I just created this work-related Library Flickr site today. It only took a few minutes to get started.

Anyone can register for a free Flickr account. Or you can upgrade to a Pro account for $24.95 a year. More about these later.

Also, check out the Flickr photos on the right-hand side of this web site. They’re what’s called a Flickr badge. Flickr lets you design badges to show and link to your pictures on your own blog or web site. WordPress has it built in to show Flickr badges automatically if you want to, but you can also place a Flickr badge on any Web site if you know how (requires logging into your Flickr account to view).