I’ve been looking for Youtube downloaders and converter for a few days now as Mr 9 is not handling the ‘buffering’ very well. In fact it is distracting him to the point that he will not wait around for the content to be presented.

Anyway, most of the Youtube converters I’ve looked at over the last couple of days either had: spyware as a condition of the user agreement, wouldn’t work on Vista or wanted to email the files to me which leaves me open to spam.

So given that Mr nine is exploring the nature of black holes, string theory, quantum mechanics, nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence with a couple of his little friends in the playground, I thought it is time to expose him to Michio Kaku in order to introduce Cosmology

All that said, this Youtube to Quicktime converter is working very well for me and Mr 9 can watch the interviews in the car on the long drives we do here in Australia

cheers

Adrian

Here is a pdf version of my ‘Mind Map on Mind Mapping’

I’ve found the quality of student mind maps improves greatly if they use this as a model.

cheers

Adrian

For the last 6 months or so I’ve been thinking about creating a website based on funny little jokes kids have told me over the years and anecdotes from my teaching career. Funny thing is I’ve been a little too stressed to create it

Tonight I’ve finally created my first cartoon using my brand new copy of Comic Life for the PC, my Wacom tablet, Inkscape and my rather old version of Photoshop.

I hope you get a chuckle.

Adrian

I love using screensavers to
generate thought and wonder and there are some excellent screensavers out there.

A couple of days ago I discovered ‘Cities’. Cities is an animated Earth that lights
up the major cities of the world and displays the local time and population down the right hand side.

Cities is great for leaving on your laptop and then demonstrating wonder to the kids when
it kicks in ie ‘Gee, I wonder what’s in………….


?’ and then go off to find out.

Check out a few of the screensavers I use in my classrooms.

cheers

Adrian

PS If you sign up for BOINC to look for ET you’ll have heaps of questions hehehehe

As many of you know I love Firefox and the added browser functionality that many of its extensions give.

Alas, the default download dialogue box is a pain in the butt on soooooo many levels.

Today I discovered an extension that places the download box on the toolbar and it doesn’t need any extra click to close it etc

Just go - Tools / Add Ons / Get Extensions / & look for ‘Download St us Bar’/

It’s a very nice extension for those who hate extra clicks.

cheers

Adrian