Category: webcasts
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Lessons Learned Webcasting with Ustream Producer
This afternoon and evening my daughter and her 4th grade classmates presented a shortened version of “The Wizard of Oz.” I joined the throngs of parents video-recording the afternoon performance, but opted to use Ustream Producer software (free) and my AT&T 3G wireless card to webcast and record the 42 minute performance. Previously, I have…
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K12Online Conference Echo Webcasts
The K-12 Online Conference is an organization, event, and community every educator should recognize. FREE, high-quality, on-demand professional development can be hard to come by, and K-12 Online now includes over 170 outstanding video presentations in its archives. While the conference has taken place the past four years in October (2006, 2007 and 2008) and…
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Review of Ustream Producer by Dean Mantz
Dean Mantz, the director of technology in Sterling, Kansas, recorded a 14 minute review of the new UStream Producer application on February 2nd which he (naturally) posted via Ustream. I want to start using this application for my Technology 4 Teachers (T4T) lecturecasts, which I have been recording to Ustream and then cross-posting to a…
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High Definition USB 2.0 Hue Webcam
A few months ago my iSight camera on my MacBook Pro stopped working, and I haven’t been able to find a week of “down time” when I could do without my MacBook and turn it over to Apple for repair. I need to, since it’s covered with Applecare, but at this point I just can’t…
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Lecturecasting on a Shoestring with a Macbook, Ustream, CamTwist, MPEG Streamclip and Blip.tv
This semester I am teaching two sections of a 15 week course at the University of Central Oklahoma called, “Technology 4 Teachers.” This is a required course for all UCO College of Education undergraduates which meets once per week, for two hours. I want to record at least one of my two repeated lectures each…
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Powerful Ingredients Videoconference today
Cross-posted to the Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning blog. I shared an hour-long videoconference today for the Tandberg Connections program and the CILC, discussing the “Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning” framework. In addition to our H.323 videoconference, which was bridged to endsites in Arkansas, Virginia and Texas, I shared the presentation over Ustream and recorded…
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Live on Ustream – It’s a snowstorm in central Oklahoma
A storm bringing ice and snow has come to central Oklahoma, just in time for Christmas. For fun I’ve setup one of our computers in the front window and am Ustreaming (via our Learning Signs Ustream channel) the view of the snowstorm in our front yard… with some Christmas music via Pandora streaming as audio…
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Ustreaming with multiple local mics and remote callers via Skype
This evening I recorded a 30 minute webcast over Ustream with members of my family, discussing their experiences in the past few months reading ebooks on their iPhones, iPod Touches and Kindle readers. We included my father in our conversation, and “skyped out” to him on his landline phone in Kansas early in the webcast.…
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Discussing eBooks, the Kindle, and the iPhone Amazon Application via Ustream
This evening at long last, I was able to corner my wife and son for a thirty minute interview about their experiences since this summer reading eBooks on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Kindle. We webcasted this interview live over Ustream and archived it. We also discussed some of the differences between reading ebooks and…
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iPhone LIVE Webcasting to UStream, Tiered iPhone Data Plans, Exaflood Rumors
I’ve been waiting for this for many months: UStream announced today the availability of a LIVE webcasting / webstreaming application for the iPhone GS and iPhone 3G in the iTunes Store. This is NOT an app which requires a jailbreak. The price? FREE. If you have an iPhone 3G and thought you couldn’t use it…