summary+C&T+301+June+19-20,+2007

Topics Covered:
Facebook.com How to set up a Blog Fair Use Policy Get a Movie from YouTube Download a Video that usually cannot be downloaded


 * Note: Projects that were supposed to be due on Thursday are not due until Tuesday.

Facebook.com was originally designed for college students but recently has been opened up to the public. Anyone can use it. It is a great tool to use in the classroom. You can add friends on Facebook by typing in their name, and clicking "Add Friend." To use Facebook as an educational tool, you can communicate with your students, add groups for them to join, add their names in the "notes" and add pictures of educational things.

Blog is short for WEBLOG. You can communicate with students, post announcements, post podcasts. To set up a BLOG go to blogger.com and set up an account.

Fair Use Policy: 1. You need to prove that you are not hurting company profit. 2. You can not show the entirity of the work. 3. You are using the media for educational purposes.

To get a movie from YouTube you need to go to video.qoogle.jp/dl/ and click save file. You need to right click on the file and rename it as a .flv file.

In order to download a video that can't normally be downloaded you need Viewlet Cam. This program can be found in the Technology folder of our wiki. You need to capture the area of the movie with the Viewlet cam and export the movie as a flash file.