Category: digitalstorytelling
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A custom photo book for Nana
It’s always hard to shop for my mom. This year for her birthday, we created a custom photo book of our summer family reunion / vacation using iPhoto. This entire process took about three hours, using images from her Mobile Me Gallery and my own Flickr set of the trip. It takes awhile to create…
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Fair Use in Videos Using Pictures with Copyrighted Music
If you’ve spent much time helping students and teachers create with media, you’ve almost certainly run into some form of this question: “Can I use [song X] in my video project and just make a synchronized slide show of photos with it?” Implicit within this question are a series of other questions, including: Will this…
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Holiday Video Fun with an iPhone and iMovie 09
This afternoon my 9 year old daughter planned, directed, and starred in her third cooking program in a series she has titled, “The International Cooking Show.” This time around she demonstrated how to cook holiday sausage balls, and had her younger sister participate in the program as well. We still haven’t had anyone else contribute…
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Reasons I love Blip.tv and Screenr
Week 2 of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference begins in about seven hours, and our co-conveners are making last minute updates to “pre-flight” the presentation posts which will “go live” on the K-12 Online Conference blog next week following the published order on our conference schedule. For the second year, we are using Blip.tv to…
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Web-based Video Transcoding – A Beautiful Sight!
As a co-convener for the K-12 Online Conference, the following is a beautiful sight. Presenters in our 2009 conference are following a new set of procedures to DIRECTLY upload their files to both DotSub and Blip.tv, where their videos are converted / transcoded into Flash versions (on both sites) and into m4v (iPod compatible video)…
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Lessons learned using Ustream Recorder for iPhone
This morning I participated in a wonderful outreach activity with members of our church at the City Rescue Mission in Oklahoma City, and I recorded the children’s program portion of the event using the free Ustream for iPhone Recorder application. These are a few of my lessons learned from this experience. See my post, “Share…
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Share password protected online videos with Mobile Me
Today because of privacy and confidentiality concerns at an event, I needed to share videos I recorded there with my iPhone on a password protected website. This is how I did it using iLife ’09 and Mobile Me. I recorded video of a children’s performance at a local homeless shelter using the free Ustream for…
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WatchKnow vets educational YouTube videos
Thanks to a post from the ever-helpful and prolific Richard Byrne, I learned about the website WatchKnow. According to the website’s about page: Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos… WatchKnow—as in, “You watch,…