[IAEP] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jim Tittsler <jim at oerfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 20:11, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math
>> lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/  ) and use them offline on the XO-1.
> [...]
>> Could the videos be stored on USBs?
>
> New Zealand's Albany High School has transcoded many of the math
> lessons to the Ogg format as part of their open math textbook
> initiative.  They have made the open format files available through
> the Wikimedia Commons.  I've used the Jukebox activity to play the
> downloaded .ogv files from a USB thumb drive on an XO.
>
> Example:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khan_Academy_Adding_and_subtracting_fractions.ogv
>

The page states: "All videos on Khan Academy site licensed under
CC-BY-SA -- derivative work converted into ogv". Interesting.

cheers,
Sameer

> Jukebox activity:
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4045
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