Download Youtube.com videos

Great tools to get resources from Youtube.com:

Download Youtube.com videos quickly to your PC

Download Youtube.com videos into MP3 files

How to embed Flash properly in HTML

Came across this link recently when I was pulling my hair out as all my flash movies kept appearing on top of everything else including menus and image:

How to embed Flash properly

New on SlideShare: How to use Adobe Flash in Teaching

How to use Adobe Flash in Teaching

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How Comprehensive Was The Nazi Police State

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Create videos using Movie Maker: great hooks, no complications

This is a quick hook that could be used for studying life in Britain during the Second World War and raises many issues about evacuees. I made this a few years ago to show teachers how easily you can create impact using images and music.

Great books on flash game developing

Recent books added to 'Great Books' section of www.InnovativeICT.net:

Gary Rosenzweig

If you have basic knowledge of Adobe Flash but do not have time to master the more complex elements of the software and still want to learn how to create great games then this book really does the job well. Gary Rosenzweig's book is straight forward and explains everything clearly and in an interesting way. The book is very pedagogical and goes through the essentials step-by-step and covers a range of different games and activities that can be mdofied and used in the classroom for example:

• Jigsaws


• Paddle and Racing games


• Memory activities


• Platform games


• Drag & Drop


• and many many other

Gary Rosenweig has recently come out with a new book ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming Universitywhich is a superb addition to the keen Flash enthusiast. His website is also a brilliant resource to take your Flash skills further.

There are other great books on creating Flash Games which are equally useful. Some of these are more complex for the beginner but they do provide the reader with outstanding files which easily can be tweaked to suit your own classes. For example:

Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Game Development with CD-ROM by Glen Rhodes: although you would benefit from reading Rosenzweig's book before tackling this one, G. Rhodes' book on developing games in Flash does go through the basics of ActionScripting and the files you get are excellent!

Nintendo Wii Flash Game Creator's Guide: Design, Develop, and Share Your Games Online: this is a cheap, fun book which shows you how to create games which you can play on the Nintendo Wii - excellent idea!

There are so many books on flash gaming out there but these really move you in the right direction if you wish to develop games for your own students.

Great links to make your site stand above the rest

Folio on broken links
How does Google 'look' at my pages? How do they link? - TouchGraph

Post to your blog using Firefox

Good SEO tips for beginners

How to maintain rankings for 'old' pages

Personalised Search according to TED

Speed up your broadband connection NOW!

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iPlate greatly enhances your broadband connection - fantastic reviews. I just bought one after reading it on a Twitter post by D. Belshaw (Thanks!).

I'll post my own review when I get it installed (see post below).

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Cool online tools to use with your students

I have compiled a brief list of websites that Ive been using over the past few weeks which are superb to use with all Key Stages:

Great Online Tools

I will keep updating this page. There are many fab tools to go up there still of course, like classics such as Bubbl.us, Twitter etc.