Category: playingwithmedia
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RSS Converter for MastoFeed
In this post I’d like to share a way I’m streamlining sharing of my podcast recommendations to Mastodon, following the innovative lead of Alan Levine. (CogDog) Striving to imitate (some of) Alan’s digital breadcrumbs on Mastodon, I’m now using using Pinboard to collect and organize links, including a dedicated tag for podcasts I recommend. It’s…
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Better Video Audio with Auphonic
This afternoon and evening I created a new 12 minute video for my “Cook with Wes” video series on YouTube, “Spring Cleaning My RecTeq RT-700 Bull Smoker: Tips & Tricks!” I recorded the audio on my iPhone 13 using a cheap tripod from Amazon and iPhone tripod mount. I edited the video clips together using…
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Our Family: Ghibli Style
Wow, the Substack article, “The Colors Of Her Coat” by Scott Alexander taught me several new things: For deeper reading see “Welcome to the semantic apocalypse: Studio Ghibli style and the draining of meaning” by Erik Hoel. Via Ethan Mollick’s March 30th Substack article, “No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation – When Language Models Learn…
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Media Kit Lesson
Today in my middle school web design class, we wrapped up a multi-week unit and project I call our “Image and Video Media Kit.” In this post I’ll summarize the unit and share the techniques I used for student presentations this semester, which went smoothly. You can access this full lesson (including sample media kits…
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Sharing Mastodon Lists
I am a BIG fan of the federated social media platform Mastodon, and this evening I used Claude.ai to generate code in an HTML file which allows me to quickly share my LISTS on Mastodon with others. Unlike Twitter, lists on Mastodon are PRIVATE and not directly sharable with others. I spent some time both…
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NFC Sticker Automation
Here’s a geeky tale for you. We have an old Bluetooth stereo in our car that does not support CarPlay, and it irritatingly connects automatically to my iPhone in the mornings before school when I start the vehicle to warm it up. This evening I successfully configured a NFC sticker (37 cents each in a…
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NotebookLM Introduces Me
Tonight’s Jason Neiffer #edtechSR inspired AI experiment: I asked Google’s NotebookLM AI model to take my bio, resume, vitae, portfolios, etc and create a “deep dive” podcast, sharing an audio introduction of me for a diverse audience. It’s 12.5 minutes long, and surprisingly insightful. I added it to my “About” page and posted it to…
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Remove Background in Adobe Express
I LOVE creating and sharing InfoPics. My favorite iOS app for creating InfoPIcs has (for years now) been Adobe Express for iOS. The app has updated in many ways, but it still retains its core features and UI for quickly adding readable, contrasting text to an image. This morning as I created a “Bible Verse…
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Priceless Media Hostages
This evening I looked through an old box of media tapes and CDs which managed to survive our 1000+ mile move from Oklahoma to North Carolina two years ago. There are some priceless artifacts here. Basically all the Digital 8 and MiniDV video tapes which I recorded of our kids and family growing up are…
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Enchanted Christmas Chapel Memories
I love listening to Christmas music year round. This is my favorite instrumental Christmas music playlist on Spotify: “Back in the day” this was a Pandora playlist called, “Peaceful Holidays.” Those were the years (starting in 2015) when I was the Director of Technology at Casady School in OKC. Lorin Swenson and I were still…