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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 01:15 PM
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Mark wrote 25 words on Sunday Mar 25, 2007 at 04:30 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 06:09 AM
Mark,
good alternative link.