I needed to figure out how to download YouTube videos for an upcoming conference presentation where I wasn't confident that I would be able to have a good enough connection to play the video. I found that there was a very nice bookmarklet to Download as MP4 Files : One way is to save the following link as a bookmarklet by dragging it to your Links bar (in Firefox, Safari) or right-clicking and adding it to your favorites (in Internet Explorer, Opera): Get YouTube video When you want to download a YouTube video, just click on the bookmarklet. KeepVid offered both (save as FLV and save as MP4) and a nice bookmarklet as well.

New online book on mobile learning -available for free download by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. newtech/ It is fully downloadable from this site either as individual chapters or as the whole book in pdf form. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9 (online) Available: http://ro.uow.edu.au/newtech/ This online book describes a study, funded by Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), that involved

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