Convert You Tube video for use in PowerPoint

I was working on this lesson I have to do tomorrow at a school I'm observing/helping at when I thought it would be great to do a PowerPoint as a cue set. The lesson is for a "Read 180" class (remedial reading help) and we are working on summarizing. The reading for the lesson is an excerpt from a textbook on child labor. So I find this great video clip on YouTube and am getting ready to put the presentation together when I remember I need to convert the file before I can insert it.

Luckily, Suzy Cox (Instructional Media) found a way to do this. I went back to the blog she had for our class (Fall 2007) and found the link. She may have and even better way to do it now, but here is the way I learned to do it. The instructions are pretty clear. If any of you are in her current class, and she's got a better way to convert them now, post it.

How to Embed YouTube video in PowerPoint

Kira Inspired Me

So, after looking at what Kira was doing on Google Pages I thought I'd give it a try myself. Let me know if you find any errors on the pages. Should I offer a prize for whoever finds the most?

Gotta Share

Kira's Book Projects

Are all ya'll sick of me now? I am going to post like all of my assignments...so get over it ;D

Here are my book projects (hey ... please post yours or leave them in the comments because I want to make a better list!) and here is the project I actually made (it is a movie poster for Ethan Frome, I chose an image that I though described the book, the tagline is a quote from the book that I think is interesting and revealing, and I chose the cast as people who I thought could really play the parts (Kim Basinger [she seems easily hate-able] as Zeena, Scarlett Johansson as Mattie, and Adrien Brody as Ethan).

This I Believe

Want a great source for short essays--plus ideas for writing? Check out This I Believe. org (link at right). There are down-loadable ideas of High School and College classes, links to pod casts of authors reading their essays, and info on the original radio program that aired in the 1950s.
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Rillene

Resources Galore!

The Greece, New York School District web page is a gold mine of information. The link in the list takes you to an academic page listing reading strategies, but if you go back to the home page and search the site, you won't believe what you'll find.

A note about the reading strategies--you'll notice that the listed strategies are linked as well. Click on the strategy of your choice and you'll go to a page with DETAILED info on that strategy. Be sure to check out the left had side of the page. Many also have down-loadable graphic organizers and examples!!!!!!
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Rillene

Reading Resource for Novels

Doing a little surfing tonight. I came across this site.
Novel Links
There are lots of resorces, plus they are divided up into before reading, during reading, and after reading. Looks like it would work right into reading strategies.