I promised this post for one of my colleagues, so here it is, MC!
I know Zamzar isn't new, but it is seriously one of my favorite tools for teaching. Zamzar converts media. The best thing about Zamzar is that you can take the URL of a YouTube video (for instance) and Zamzar will make it dowloadable for you-all for free!
We've been using a lot more YouTube videos on my team, especially since Discovery Education has put many of their (including History Channel) videos on YouTube. Sometimes bandwith or the network going down completely are issues at our school, so if you can turn that streaming content into a saved file on your hard drive, you can continue on with your lesson.
I've made an instructional video showing how to use Zamzar. I hope you find Zamzar just as useful as I have.
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