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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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---- Robert Copeland
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
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---- Isaac Newton
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---- Steve Dembo
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Keep Your YouTube
I know that many teachers use YouTube videos in their class. But what do you do if your internet access at school is intermittent or perhaps the video is removed. Both of these situations are problems for me. I know there are a few firefox extensions that allow you to download the flv file from youtube, but I don’t like any stand alone flv players so I would rather have the file in mpg or avi format. Problem solved: go to Media Converter. This site will convert anything you upload to them into almost any format. If you register with the web site you will even be able to provide links to youtube videos and the site will convert them automatically without you having to download the youtube first.
Depending on the queue the files will arrive instantly or several minutes later. It’s a great resource that I am happy to have found.
update
here are other options for online video conversions
http://media-convert.com/convert/
http://vixy.net/
update II
Teaching Hacks has a good compilation of sites for video.
update III
hat tip to Langwitches.
iss YouTube offers an innovative approach for downloading video clips from Youtube. No browser bookmarklets, no software to install, just remember the KISS “Keep It Sweet & Simple” principle.
While you are watching a video clip on the youtube website, just add the word “kiss” to the video URL in your browser address bar and hit enter. The video is ready to be saved on your computer in FLV format.
For instance, if the Youtube URI is something like youtube.com/watch?v=ls1954aa, you can download the clip by adding the word “kiss” in front of the youtube.com domain name. Hence the final address becomes kissyoutube.com/watch?v=ls1954aa which will have the link to save that clip.
KissYoutube.com
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Mar 21, 2007 at 02:15 PM
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Mark wrote 25 words on Sunday Mar 25, 2007 at 05:30 PM
You could also use Javimoya to download them. After that you could play them on your computer with any player that can handle .flv files.
Sean. wrote 4 words on Monday Mar 26, 2007 at 07:09 AM
Mark,
good alternative link.