Group Project update

Our group has completed most of the task in Week 4.  Randy completed editing the video and posting in Dropbox.  He did a good job, but I was inspired to try to fill some of the dead air that occurred while we did our egg wraps and drops. In addition, we had not documented the use of audacity or other voice recording except for Randy and his voice-over corrections.
Ericka recorded in audacity a couple of lines, which I added in our 4.2 assignment, and put it in the Dropbox. I recorded myself as a narration in Adobe Premier Element software.
After splitting and placing appropriately in the video, I rendered it to an .avi file and named it Scientific Method Made Easy 3, as it took me a few attempts to finish the task.  I moved it into our shared folder and sent emails to my cohorts for approval.
If acceptable, we can load to Youtube tomorrow.
I feel as if I have grown as an educator and a leader in this project. Learning when to follow is a difficult lesson.

Web Conference 6-30-12

We had a large group of students on today's web conference.  I will venture a guess that many students were  "multitasking" during the conference.  Many questions were asked in the chat bar, that had already been answered by Dr. Abernathy.  It was as if, every student wanted the question answered directly to the individual student.  I would encourage students to give up the 30-45 minutes of their time to pay attention during the web conference.
Apparently, Dr. Abernathy was experiencing some technical difficulty today with the Adobe Connect software, and her web cam was not working.  However, for  the most part, audio was fine, and it was recorded.

Some student grumble about the web conferences, but I enjoy the 'one on one' experience, even if I do not participate in chat or ask questions.
Listening to the students and observing the professors' responses will help me grow in the area of distance learning.  I have aspirations of conducting distance learning courses in the future.  By observing as many of these conferences as I can, the experience will help me gain ideas of the "ideal" situations.

Update on group video project

    We have had some fun making the different parts of our video.  Each of us provided parts (short video or still shots) shared them in Dropbox.  We have meetings about 2 times a week on Google hangouts.  That is an awesome app.  If you haven't tried it, you should.  You can go to Google and sign in and then open Google +.  If you do a Google search, it will, of course take you right to it.
   Back to our project...it is interesting trying to collaborate on a 90 second finished product. But, it can be done.  We have an awesome number of Web 2.0 tools to help us work together.

Multimedia Class EDLD 5363 Week 3 - Google Doc

Our group has meet 3 times on Google Hangouts this week.  We have made a lot of progress on our project.
When I copied and pasted our Google Doc (collaboration documentation)  into the assignment document, the graphics did not load into the table.  Therefore, I am including a link in this blog to the Google doc. Here you should be able to the process in its entirety.

Week 3 Documentation - Clements, Henslee, Turner, Angel

Video Editing and Video Podcast

Create Video Lesson with TopViewSoft by Mary Angel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This assignment was a challenge. But one I have enjoyed and have learned many new tricks.  I am not completely convinced that what I created is exactly what was asked for, and I know I went over 2 minutes. However, I like the product and plan to share my experiences this week with my teachers and colleagues.  It is exactly what we have been needing. On demand training, with specific tasks for them to finish by deadlines. This was much easier that the PowerPoints I have created in the past with dozens of screen shots.

During this process, I have downloaded a million free software titles and had to create a spreadsheet to keep track of which program does which tasks.  And I hope I didn't download too many spyware in the process.

I am a little confused about the Creative Common bug that we are to add to our work.  Youtube has a the option to select the Creative Common Attribution license and to select the Educational Category.  Is that sufficient for uploading to their site?
So many questions, so little time!

Multimedia Podcast Assignment 2.1

Boy, this course is coming at us hard and fast.  It is a challenge to keep up with the assignments.  I used to consider myself pretty tech savvy, but there is still so much to learn and so little time to play.
However, this is fun.  Check this out on You Tube!

A Digital Story

A Digital Story - Tech Time Travel with a Baby Boomer

Script for a digital story"Travel through tech time with a Baby Boomer"

Digital Story – Travel through tech time with a Baby Boomer

Slide 1 - It’s a brave new world…how did we get here?  Let’s travel back in time and I will tell you a story of my journey from the Land o’ Low Tech, through the land of Rising’ Tech and into the domain of NOW!

Slide 2- I was born to the post war era of 1946 – 1964. Our generation is called “the Baby Boomers”

Follow my migration across the great Technological Divide, be amazed (an amused) as I cross Generation X and Y and Generation Next and encounter their offspring, Generation Net.

Slide 5- My daddy had “car phone” in his truck.  The truck horn would honk when his boss was calling him!

Slide 6 - We had one phone in our house, but children were not allowed to use it

Slide 7 - We shared a phone line with 4 other families – a party line! 

Slide 13 - I did my first data input on one of these

Slide 15 - We had to learn a language called “DOS”

Slide 19 - There was a lot of money made by programmers and scammers alike! But we survived….and technology thrived.

Slide 21 -At our in service, there was not a computer in sight

But now….

Slide 22 - Technology….

Slide 23 - Is changing….

Slide 24- ….how we teach and learn!

Slide 25 - “What lies ahead for this Boomer? Stay tuned for the sequel, “The next 50 years”

Reflection of Frustration

I have edited my script, a few times, and finished my powerpoint slide show 3 days ago.
I have my slideshow ready with pictures, narration and music.  I have been to authorStream to convert it to a video and have hit a brick wall. It will keep the timing, narration, and starts the music on the correct slide, but stops when it advances to the next slide.  And yes, the settings are correct in PowerPoint software.   I have tried iSpring and converted to a .swf, and that didn't work for uploading to YouTube or Blogger.
I tried two other conversion programs on the Cool Tools for Schools website, with equal lack of success.

The only software that has worked is,  PPT2Video Pros. It has free trial download and it worked beautifully, but, it puts a watermark on the video.  It's not the effect I was looking for, but I am out of time and out of patience. I have been doing this for 15 hours.

So I am going to make one more attempt and then submit what I have, and learn my lesson: don't start in PowerPoint if you are trying to layer audio tracks.  :-)

Starting a new class this week... Multimedia
I will tell a digital story about my journey from Land o' LowTech, through the Kindgom of Risin'Tech to finish the trip in the domain of GenNet !