I attended the iPad workshop last week and I wanted to mention one of my favorite (of many things) that I learned at the workshop. One of the most irritating aspects to showing videos in classes are the ads that surround YouTube videos. Greg, the speaker from the CTLT event a couple of weeks ago mentioned a website called ViewPure which is a service that shows videos from other services without the clutter.
Check out the link here: http://viewpure.com/ You can take videos that you like and remove the surrounding ads. I feel that this is a huge boon especially when I think some of the ads are distracting to the students.
While this is a very simple suggestion I think it has major implications in how I teach and how I will use the iPad. Now the iPad can help me show instructional videos in class that students can access. I can also provide the ViewPure link to them through Angel.
