Video Converters

Motionbox - Main Blog: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, & Converters

With so many different video cameras, codecs, formats, and more, Lifehacker's Top 10 list on Free Video Rippers, Encoders, & Converters definitely makes for a good reference if you ever need just the right program to convert a video file into a format that works for you. We usually recommend Any Video Converter for PCs and Roovid Lite for Macs, but you can have some fun checking out the rest and see which one you prefer, depending on what you're trying to do. The best part is that all of these utilities are free, safe, and will work on various operating systems.

This Has Been Spell Checked

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A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Interesting YouTube Video - I wonder which class I should show this to...

IM from anywhere

Chatterous

This looks like a way to pull applications together.  IM Convergence!

Thumbtack

Microsoft Launches Thumbtack; It's a Google Notebook Competitor

Microsoft Live Labs has just released Thumbtack, a new online notebook service of sorts, allowing you to create different collections where you can store links and content and share it with friends. Microsoft offers a few examples of how you might want to use this: finding a new apartment with your roommate, creating a list of your favorite restaurants, or storing data on different cars if you’re in the market for one.

Flowgram

Flowgram

This looks like a great Web 2.0 app to mash up so many things - I think it is well worth investigating.

"Fair Use" and Copyright

Any and all resources on this topic are welcome

Top News - This fair-use guide offers copyright shelter

Hoping to clear up the confusion over the "fair use" of digital materials in teaching and learning, a panel of university professors has developed a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education."

Creativity

If only I knew how they made these videos

Alternative Browsing

Too good to ignore: Six alternative browsers | InfoWorld | News | 2008-12-02 | By Michael DeAgonia, Ryan Faas and Preston Gralla, Computerworld

Too good to ignore: Six alternative browsers
These relatively unknown browsers are good -- and could be better for some users than the ones they're using now

Test Drive Open Source Software

Home - OpenSourceCMS

opensourceCMS.com was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any CMS system here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

Screen Toaster

ScreenToaster - Free online screen recorder : create screencast, tutorials and reviews in few clicks

Free Online Screen Recorder

• Register & use it anywhere anytime
  Make screencasts / tutorials / demos / high-scores show-offs...


• Record your screen in one click
  No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.


• Share videos on the Internet in Flash
  Embed them on blogs/webpages or send them by email.