Category: digitalstorytelling
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Bubblr and Comic Creativity
I love the Macintosh application Comic Life, because it offers a powerful invitation to creativity with photos. This evening I discovered Bubblr, which offers a similar invitation but one that is web-based and Flickr-powered. Here is my first creation: Nothing real earth shattering here, just a few ideas about television and marketing as we move…
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WinXP via Parallels on my MacBook
Well, after listening to Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte’s enthusiastic and favorable review of Parallels Desktop for Mac (in Episode #59: Comparing “Parallels” VMs) I took the plunge this weekend, buying and installing the program. The software itself took less than sixty seconds to install. My installation of WindowsXP from scratch, however, took many, many…
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Compress and convert video
Apparently the work and discussions around the imminent K-12 Online Conference have energized several (Darren and Chris in Winnipeg, for two) to begin screencasting. Several free and commercial screencasting tools are listed on the K-12 Online Conference tools page. Darren commented today in a skype discussion that his 8 minute screencast made with SmartBoard Recorder…
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How to create a skypecast
This evening I created a 7 minute screencast (using the screen recorder included in freely downloadable SmartBoard software, incidentally) to explain how to create a free Skypecast. I’ve uploaded the screencast to YouTube (a first for me) and also embedded it below: Technically speaking, I did further compress the video as a MPEG-4 file using…
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Deep tagging video
Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch article “All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging” discusses how “deep tagging” video content posted online can help others locate content of interest faster than search engine algorithms: Figuring out how to search the meta data around rich content (tags and lots of other descriptive data) is big business. Truveo, a video…
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Hydrogen car of the future
“Hy-wire” is the name of the General Motors car of the future: entirely powered by hydrogen energy. Amazing! Too bad they are not yet available for ordering. In a few years….. Thanks to Clara Ward for this link! 🙂
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Digital ethics case studies?
Brett Moller posted a good question relating to digital ethics and P2P file sharing, in his post “21st Century Ethics.” Here’s my reposed comment: Brett: I think we have to do a lot more than just tell kids, “That’s wrong, don’t do that.” The response of these kids does show they may be off the…
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Lots of Orca Videos!
One of the favorite bedtime books of my daughters and I is “O Is for Orca”, which is an alphabet book about animals in the Pacific Northwest that I bought in Seattle several years ago when I was there for NECC. This evening my youngest and I were reading a related book she recently got…
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Images of and Reflections on 9-11
SC Eagle (a US soldier stationed in Germany who lived in NYC on 9-11-2001) has posted a home video to his blog of a video he and his wife took looking outside their NYC apartment building that fateful day. Close up footage, with the quiet voices of regular citizens responding to the most horrific terrorist…
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Pavan Skydives on YouTube!
A good friend of mine who I used to work with at Texas Tech, Pavan Chinthapanti, recently had his first skydiving experience doing a tandem jump. Of course we live in the 21st century, so events like this can and are readily documented with digital video and shared with a global audience via websites like…