Download YouTube Videos

You hit play on an awesome video and 30 seconds in it pauses to buffer, all of a sudden your perfect class descends into chatting chaos as youtube betrays you. I've been there, lot.Savemedia.com is a wonderful site that empowers you to download almost any youtube videowithout needing to install anything. No need to bother your Instructional Technology Specialist to install something, your computer can already do this. 

All you do is find a youtube video you would like to download, copy the url from the address bar, then go to savemedia.com, paste the address and click "Download by URL". It might take up to a minute to load but you should get a screen that looks like the picture below. I highly reccommend selecting a medium quality MP4 file, MP4 is the most commonly used video format. Simply click one to make a selection.

Presto! No more load time because you have the full video save to your computer.

Zondle - easy to create review video games

Zondle is a provider of free games designed to help students practice recalling information. Zondle offers hundreds of combinations of topics and games. When you sign into Zondle select a subject area and topic. After selecting a topic Zondle will generate a list of games based on that topic that you can play. Registered users of Zondle can embed the games into their own websites and blogs. Learn more about Zondle here and in the video below.
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Now that you've got the basics try playing one. Once you input questions you can pick any of 30 plus games to use them in. Below is one of my favorites, Space Destroyer.

zondle - games to support learning