Thing 10

Here is a nice video clip about cell division:



I added this video clip because we talk about cell division in the biology classes that I teach. I can see how finding little clips like this and being able to put them right into a blog (or site like Moodle) would be very helpful for students! I am a visual learner myself, and I can only imagine how much this might help students.

I had a little trouble downloading videos with the first two sites (KeepVid & PwnYouTube), but the Zamzar seemed to work well. All this video downloading makes me a little nervous. First, if I embed a YouTube video in my blog and students access it at school, I'm assuming that they will be using bandwidth just as they would if they accessed the video right from YouTube. Second, what are all the copyright restrictions with downloading videos? I seem to be more comfortable embedding it because it still has that little "YouTube" icon in the corner. But, I'm not sure of the copyright restrictions. I would definitely not want to encourage my students to start breaking copyright rules since I already have a hard time convincing them that plagerism is wrong!