Category Archives: YouTube

Faculty Academy 2011 Videos

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Andy Rush

Recovering from the 2011 Faculty Academy this year has been better/easier than other years – Because it was so good. We implemented a new system of streaming (Justin.tv) and it has the advantage of directly uploading to YouTube. Depending on … Continue reading →

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Visions of Students Today

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Andy Rush

I’m getting back on my feet after a busy live-streaming week, and a bit of a hiatus from posting in this space. Anyway, here’s a quick post about an interesting follow-up to a great video from Michael Wesch’s Digital Ethnography … Continue reading →

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Super Happy Fun YouTube Downloader

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Andy Rush

A while ago I mentioned a cool program that could download and convert YouTube videos. It was a Mac only program called Evom. I lamented that I wished there was an easy program for Windows that could do what Evom … Continue reading →

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Whistleblowing Via YouTube

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Andy Rush

The Read Write Web brought to my attention the plight of a Russian police officer who, rather than surrender to the rampant system of corruption, decided to go public and expose it. Now, corruption in Russia is hardly a surprise, … Continue reading →

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Sesame Street – That’s Where I Will Be

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Andy Rush

I wonder if kids would have the attention span to make it through this today, but this is a little gem, and worth watching to the end. Besides the absolute joy that Stevie exudes while he is playing, there are … Continue reading →

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Re-thinking YouTube Downloads

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Andy Rush

Do a search for “download youtube videos” and the results you get will offer up countless websites with instructions, services, tools, and videos dedicated to the subject. You would think that it was popular to download videos from the YouTube … Continue reading →

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Making YouTube More Cinematic

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Andy Rush

Here’s a neat trick to use next time you want to show a YouTube video in class, or in your home theater (h/t to WebWare). You need to have the Firefox web browser and an add-on/plugin called YouTube Cinema. So … Continue reading →

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Think YouTube is Insignificant?

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Andy Rush

Then ask this guy . . . President Obama not only makes his case for why we need the stimulus package, but he announces a new website to track the spending of it – Recovery.gov. If your reaction to all … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous YouTube

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Andy Rush

Sarcasm notwithstanding, the sentiment in the above video is held by many people – “YouTube is a site of millions of sucky videos.” I have, in the past, argued against that statement here, here, here, and here. Until recently, a … Continue reading →

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Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline – v2.0

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Andy Rush

A little over a year ago I posted Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline using various tools to allow the embedding of YouTube videos in PowerPoint presentations. In the mean time, YouTube has added a bazillion more videos, and some … Continue reading →

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