As I was preparing for a summer workshop today I realized that many people probably don’t know how to save videos from sites like Youtube and Teachertube.   Those two websites stream video in .flv (I believe it a flash player) format.  This format is not compatible with Windows media player.

Zamzar.com

• This site has you enter the Youtube URL into their webpage, and then e-mails you a link to the converted file FREE.  I usually use the .avi or.mpg formats.  Unfortunately it won’t convert (yet) to .wmv.

There are other free sites and downloads available to do this conversion, but so far zamzar is my favorite.