Download captions from YouTube

I found a blog entry with tips on how to download the captions from a YouTube video. Use the following URL buy replace the string VIDEO_ID with the string of characters that follows "v=" in a YouTube URL:

http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v=VIDEO_ID

Copy the contents of that page and paste into another page, also linked from that blog entry, which will strip out the tags and make the captions easier to read:

http://www.nicertutor.com/xml.cgi

Using a Google Form to Collect Information from Alumni

A Google Form can be used to collect information from program alumni. It includes a variety of question types and the results are automatically time stamped and collected into a spreadsheet. Since we have an apps.edu domain we have the option to require a login before accessing the form, but our alumni might not have easy access to their eServices username and password information.

Here are the steps shown in the embedded video:

1. In the Google Drive application, create a new form, title it, and pick a theme.
2. Create questions and choose the data validation options as appropriate (e.g., require that certain questions be answered)
3. Test the form at any time
4. Share the form via a URL
5. View results from Google Drive page (a Google Spreadsheet) is automatically created that collects the results
6. Turn the form off on the edit form page at any time
7. Turn on notifications to get an email any time the form is completed

Upload Videos to Google Drive and Embed in Desire2Learn

This is cross-posted on Greg Desires2Blog

Video files can be uploaded to an instructor's Los Rios Google Drive and then embedded within a course offering on Desire2Learn. This video shows how to do this and includes an option to prohibit downloading by viewers.