Strategy: QuickTime and video podcasts
8 Keywords: Podcasts, Quicktime, Listening Dyslexia, Specific Learning Difficulties, Specific Learning Differences, Video, Vodcasts, Annotation
MIT Lecture unit illustrating Faraday's law of the Levitating Ring - this is linked to a Quicktime download 4.1MB and below a link to MIT TechTV exam review
"We had a course on electromagnetism – an exciting lecture – and NB gave us a link to some lectures that MIT do. They put nearly all of their lectures on there. I watched a few of them and it was good. But I have to use Apple stuff, and if you haven’t got an iPod and you don’t have iTunes installed (which I don’t because it’s a pain – because it makes you install ‘QuickTime’)…"
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There is a QuickTime Alternative free download for a wide range of files, but if you are installing QuickTime on a Windows PC you may not want it to take over all your media files!
In Vista go to the Control Panel and find the QuickTime icon (file) - Preferences - Browser tab and then File Types -uncheck the boxes for the file formats that you do not wish to have played by QuickTime.
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"I think if I was going to do anything I would write paper notes. That would be the most useful thing I could do. I can’t imagine anything on a computer for that. I learn best by ‘doing’ it, rather than listening. Reading off the screen is not an issue, but I’d prefer videos occasionally. Instructions are not always well-written."
- Ben CTip
It is possible to play most audio and video formats including QuickTime Movies in VideoLAN Client Media Player - VLC This player is a free download of 9.1MB - available under the GNU General Public License
