Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
#47 Video Challenge: Post Your Video to YouTube
I figure why do the same video as the one you've already seen so I am sharing a video I've uploaded to YouTube previously during our Teen Tech Week celebration here at the Fairbanks branch.
#46 Movie Maker Basics
Because I have used Movie Maker many times in the past this was not new information for me. I have posted two videos which I used Movie Maker to create the first one is First Acceptance Letter and the second one is Danielle's horse shows from July and today.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
First Acceptence Letter!
Danielle received her first acceptence letter from IU! Way to Go Danielle!
In honor of this achievement I made a movie of our summer visit to IU.
#45: Making a Video: An Overview
The Flip - if it works as good as it looks I'd buy one, it's cute! They offer a $15.00 discount to educational institutions, their faculty and staff too!
Following the format of the iHCPL module I went to consumer reports website to see what they had to say about The Flip and here is their Bottom Line - "The Pure Digital Flip Video F160B is a simple-to-use, pocket-size digital video camera that's appropriate for “quick and dirty” video recording--to create videos to share over the Internet or in other situations where video quality doesn’t matter much. But you'll pay about $150 for the convenience of Flip Video's sub-par, low-fidelity videos." I will mention here that I think if you want to read Consumer Reports reviews for any products rather than going to http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm I would recommend going to hcpl.net clicking on the database tab, choosing Magazine & Journals from the By Subject listing and choosing EBSCOhost. You can limit your search to Consumer Reports and get the actual information as printed in the magazine with no annoying ads to subscribe to the magazine.
I already own a digital camera that will take still shots as well as videos and I am very pleased with it. It is a Sony Cybershot. We also have a digital camcorder but we don't use it nearly as often as we used to as the girls are older.
I use Windows MovieMaker frequently. I have made several graduation movies for friends and nieces and will get to make one for my own daughter this year. I also made a friend a Family History movie which I must say turned out very nicely. Those were all pretty big undertakings because it involved pulling photos from the previous 18 years in the case of the graduation videos and more than 50 years in the case of the family histoy video, scanning them in and then putting the movie together. Now I do shorter movies of just one or two events, i.e. see my movie of my daughter touring Indiana University that I made after she got her acceptance letter.
I tried Animoto as part of iHCPL a Learning Experienece and made a little music video. I prefer to have the capability on my computer so I can burn to a DVD.
I will try out Jumpcut but again prefer something on my computer like Windows Movie Maker because I feel more ownership of the final product when it is on my computer and I can burn to a DVD.
Following the format of the iHCPL module I went to consumer reports website to see what they had to say about The Flip and here is their Bottom Line - "The Pure Digital Flip Video F160B is a simple-to-use, pocket-size digital video camera that's appropriate for “quick and dirty” video recording--to create videos to share over the Internet or in other situations where video quality doesn’t matter much. But you'll pay about $150 for the convenience of Flip Video's sub-par, low-fidelity videos." I will mention here that I think if you want to read Consumer Reports reviews for any products rather than going to http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm I would recommend going to hcpl.net clicking on the database tab, choosing Magazine & Journals from the By Subject listing and choosing EBSCOhost. You can limit your search to Consumer Reports and get the actual information as printed in the magazine with no annoying ads to subscribe to the magazine.
I already own a digital camera that will take still shots as well as videos and I am very pleased with it. It is a Sony Cybershot. We also have a digital camcorder but we don't use it nearly as often as we used to as the girls are older.
I use Windows MovieMaker frequently. I have made several graduation movies for friends and nieces and will get to make one for my own daughter this year. I also made a friend a Family History movie which I must say turned out very nicely. Those were all pretty big undertakings because it involved pulling photos from the previous 18 years in the case of the graduation videos and more than 50 years in the case of the family histoy video, scanning them in and then putting the movie together. Now I do shorter movies of just one or two events, i.e. see my movie of my daughter touring Indiana University that I made after she got her acceptance letter.
I tried Animoto as part of iHCPL a Learning Experienece and made a little music video. I prefer to have the capability on my computer so I can burn to a DVD.
I will try out Jumpcut but again prefer something on my computer like Windows Movie Maker because I feel more ownership of the final product when it is on my computer and I can burn to a DVD.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
#44 A Consumer's How To : How To & Make
I looked at the different types of How To sites listed below: I liked all of the sites and have posted my comments about each site as well.
WikkiHow - much like wikipedia
HowStuffWorks - very slick with videos
Instructables - This one is pretty cool especially the How to get a library card clips. We should have one for How To Get a Library Card in Harris County and stress the free part because I get that question all the time, How much does a library card cost? or how much to rent a DVD? etc...
Quamut - A nice site but then again it should be because you have to pay to download or print anything unless of course you like the topics they are willing to give for free, How to Make a Pizza is this weeks freebie. I can't remember the previous weeks freebies but imho they were not topics of importance. How to stop Identity Theft was interesting but I didn't really learn anything new.
The one problem I had with selecting a topic to learn about was that none of the sites had the information I was looking for. Most of the topics covered on all the sites seemed trival to me, i.e. Soda Can Hinge Wallet Chain, How To Flirt Using British Sign Language not really important to me. They are not all that trival as there is How to Make Salsa which I can see someone viewing that how to and then doing it. But how about How to Write a Commencement Address? I don't know about you but I've never been asked to write a commencement address and those that are asked to do such a thing are probably, hopefully not consulting Expert Village on how to do so, though I mean nothing against the expert, John Graden, an internationally acclaimed speaker, author and pioneering entrepreneur. Someday I might find myself looking for some information on one of these sites but as of now I wouldn't count on the information being there.
WikkiHow - much like wikipedia
HowStuffWorks - very slick with videos
Instructables - This one is pretty cool especially the How to get a library card clips. We should have one for How To Get a Library Card in Harris County and stress the free part because I get that question all the time, How much does a library card cost? or how much to rent a DVD? etc...
Quamut - A nice site but then again it should be because you have to pay to download or print anything unless of course you like the topics they are willing to give for free, How to Make a Pizza is this weeks freebie. I can't remember the previous weeks freebies but imho they were not topics of importance. How to stop Identity Theft was interesting but I didn't really learn anything new.
The one problem I had with selecting a topic to learn about was that none of the sites had the information I was looking for. Most of the topics covered on all the sites seemed trival to me, i.e. Soda Can Hinge Wallet Chain, How To Flirt Using British Sign Language not really important to me. They are not all that trival as there is How to Make Salsa which I can see someone viewing that how to and then doing it. But how about How to Write a Commencement Address? I don't know about you but I've never been asked to write a commencement address and those that are asked to do such a thing are probably, hopefully not consulting Expert Village on how to do so, though I mean nothing against the expert, John Graden, an internationally acclaimed speaker, author and pioneering entrepreneur. Someday I might find myself looking for some information on one of these sites but as of now I wouldn't count on the information being there.
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