Tag Archives: YouTube

“Own the tech you use”

You might remember our three student videos post from last February. Continuing the tradition, I’m glad to share our YouTube Playlist with short excerpts from the student panel at the 2012 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium. Here are a few … Continue reading

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Adding YouTube content to your Blackboard course site

Using YouTube videos in your Blackboard course site can add a lot to a class — instantly bring in guest speakers, demonstrations, documentary clips, and more. The Mashups tool makes it easy to include YouTube content in your site without sending … Continue reading

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YouTube on Top

Have you seen that new show on TV lately? No? Me neither. A new Freemake.com infographic spells out what many of us have suspected for awhile: YouTube is King. (Note: Freemake produces software that converts videos for YouTube.) Among the … Continue reading

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YouTube + Creative Commons

Starting today YouTube is introducing the option to upload your videos with a Creative Commons license. This will allow other users to legally sample your work to create their own mashups and musings. This is great news! Check out more … Continue reading

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What the heck is Fring?

Well, I’m glad you asked. Fring is an app for iPhone and Android that allows you to make phone calls, video calls, and text message. Um ok? I already have Skype, right? What’s the deal? There is a new feature … Continue reading

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Mash "UP!"

This is a “Pre-Make” of the Pixar movie “UP!” created by Ivan Guerrero. He has a series of videos on Youtube where he recreates modern movies, as if they were shot in the 40′s, 50′s, and 60′s. You can visit … Continue reading

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Alan Moore Loves Libraries

Alan Moore (author of Watchmen, From Hell, and V For Vendetta) visited the St. James Library in Northampton, England on Save Our Libraries Day. Here is what he had to share about libraries influencing him. Via Boingboing

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The iPhone 4 Antenna Song

As we wait to hear what Apple’s big announcement is today about the iPhone 4 antenna, here’s a song to keep you occupied.

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YouTube embedding options

I don’t embed a lot of videos, except for here in the lab blog, so when I embedded that wedding video a few days ago, I noticed all the options available. Check them out: You can specify video size, whether … Continue reading

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New 2GB filesize limit in YouTube

You may have noticed over the last month that YouTube upped their filesize limit from 1GB to 2GB. Unfortunately, they did not also increase the 10 minute video length limit, but at least this is good news for people uploading … Continue reading

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