Category: YouTube
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A Filmmaker-YouTuber’s First-hand Account of the LA Fires
You’ve probably (OK, definitely) heard numerous accounts of people’s harrowing escapes from the various fires that broke out during the first full week of 2025 in Los Angeles. The tales…
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YouTube Thumbnails for Featured Images
In my new job, I am getting deep into the inner workings of WordPress again. More about that in a future post (promises, promises). However, I will say that WordPress…
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Fun with YouTube Subtitles
I had a bit of unexpected fun yesterday. One of the things (on my long list of things) to explore this summer is closed captioning (subtitling/transcribing) videos and getting a…
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A Simple Plea to Subscribe
I’m writing this simple (hopefully short) post to ask something of you. I want you to subscribe to the YouTube Channel known as UMW NewMedia. So far I’ve asked people to…
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YouTube Downloads – The Sorcerer feat. Torch Browser
From the list of questions that I get on a regular basis, the top one has to be “How do I download YouTube videos to use in my projects?” For…
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YouTube Time
In this 2nd post about WordPress embeds (here’s the 1st one), I wanted to point out a simple trick that is part of the API for the YouTube embeds. You…
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A Mac-like Video Converter for Windows
Many moons ago I blogged about a video converter called Evom. I loved it (still do) for its simplicity and for its unique features. I’ve found something similar for the…
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YouTube Downloads – The Quickening
Often times the most innocent questions spawn a great deal of research for me. For example, I was asked recently what was the best way to download a youtube video…
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Faculty Academy 2011 Videos
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…
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Visions of Students Today
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…
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