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Is YouTube blocked inyou school? Here's a 'video catcher' that allows you to capture and use later. It's a good work around for blocking. In my opinion, too many schools block YouTube when there is good content to be found (though there's a lot of junk as well).

Department of Education--information on not blocking websites. A must read for educators (and to forward to those in control of 'unblocking' websites!)

With this tool, you can take a portion of a YouTube video, add your own materials and then use for teaching. [So those of you working in schools with YouTube blocked, this is a great work around.]

KeepVid (free) allows you to download videos from many places (including YouTube, Flickr, TED, Vimeo and more) and then show in your classroom. It's free--you choose whether mac, PC, mobile, etc and the download. It really addresses where some schools 'block' all YouTube or there are buffering issues. I tend to use the mp4 version, but you have choices of file type too.

Cybersafety and more--very sensible blog. Rather than hiding behind AUPs (Acceptable Use Policies) and blocking of websites, this blog takes a broader view. For those of you at NYSRA who Donald Leu on 4/5/11, I think he'd like this blog entry.

I just used this site/download with an iPod project in my classroom. It is probably the most important site I have found in years. The primes is simple and there are probably pleanty of other sites like it but.... WOW. You can drop your files into the dropbox and they are saved to the "cloud". Then amazingly they are on every computer ( or iPod) you have linked to the account. I entered my account info on the student iPods and made a folder for each student, when they were done with a project, they saved it to the folder. The great thing about this was i could access their assigment from anywhere, my home computer, my iPhone, another iPod in the class, the smart board...it was limitless, I could share it with anyone, no matter where I was...how powerful. I also made a folder of "mrs. Kondrick's resources" where I put videos, audios, assignments, rubrics etc, and then they could watch them/use them at their own pace ( so ethnic that works well with our individualized daily 5 reading block.