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Day 12 Movember Update (w/ video!)

Looking a little more kept than I had wanted at this point, but keeping the powers at be happy was priority uno.

We're chugging along (raised over $1600!) with our great sponsor Greenz Salads and have an end of month party in the works. . .more updates to come as we get them set.

In the mean time, donate and follow me for more updates.

Today's video update:

starting media training early

Sent from my iPhone.

my new ebanned - worship my pink stinky flip flops!

i'm selling my cute pink adidas flip flops! i've worn them for 2 summers straight and even my friend lyla has borrowed and worn them so they're well worn and smelly! pink is my favorite color so i wore these a lot. they smell just like my perfect, stinky feet in the heat of summer! yummy!!!!!! you will love smelling and licking these clean. sleep with them on your pillow and worship a little piece of your princess, my perfect, stinky feet!

lots more pics in my auction so go &&&& bid!!!

http://www.ebanned.net/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?category=wclothing18&item=1256581688

 

 

 

Flip-Tagebuch (1) mit Video

Heute bei den Kollegen der NRZ in Moers gewesen. Sehr nette und interessierte Kollegen, die der Flip-Kamera nicht kritiklos, aber offen gegenüberstehen. Je mehr Antworten ich versucht habe zu geben, desto mehr Fragen kamen. Das Universum Webvideo lässt sich eben nicht an einem Tag erforschen. Jetzt bin ich gespannt, wie die Kamera in den Redaktionsalltag eingebaut wird. Übrigens wie bei allen frischen Flip-Redaktionen starten wir erstmal im Stillen, bis sich eine gewisse Routine eingependelt hat.

 

Am Ende des Schulungstages hat mir dann Harry Seelhoff, NRZler mit Leib und Seele vor der Flip-Kamera erzählt, was er sich von der Sache erwartet.

Learning my (non-technical) way

Alternate titles for my recent learning frenzy:

• Feels so good after stopping banging my head against the wall
• Arriving where I started and knowing the place for the first time (apologies to T. S. Eliot)

I have just spent most of three days figuring out how to fulfill a teaching commitment, one that I made before I figured out how to accomplish it. It has been a grueling but ultimately positive experience, at least so far.

I teach a course that covers from speaking to a live audience to podcasting, and includes formal group presentations. I want my students to see how they look and sound in their presentations, and I used this as a excuse to buy something I've been coveting - a flip camcorder.

After years of experiencing the result of my "ready, fire, aim", approach to new experiences, I was smart enough to play with my flip a little before using it in class. I recorded a couple of minutes of various friends and then deleted the videos at their requests. I recorded a few seconds of plants (they don't request deletion of their images) moving in the wind. Transferred it to my laptop - directly using the flip-out USB, which automatically opens the flipshare screen, as seen below.

I glanced at the flipshare screen, got frustrated because I didn't immediately 'get' it and decided to put my short practice video on Vimeo. No problem!

So, feeling secure, off I went to class. I recruited volunteers to video each of the 3 presentations, retrieved my lovely new flip, and went home where I planned to upload each presentation to Vimeo and then embed each group's presentation on a wiki page private to them.

Then I encountered a series of "learning events":

1. Vimeo doesn't like really large files;
2. HD videos of approximately 15 minutes in length are really large files;
3. iMovie, which I have only limited experience with, didn't want to accept 15 minutes of HD video whole, no matter how many times I tried and how many times I watched bits and pieces of video tutorials;
4. iDVD, same experience, but after I had borrowed and set up my husband's Lacie DVD burner, with all kinds of wires to connect everywhichwhere;
5. I phoned my friendly expert and he tried to tell me how to convert HD to SD but I didn't know enough to understand his suggestions and he was at a meeting and had to disconnect;
6. He had also suggested YouTube and its private channels, and I forget why I thought that wouldn't work, probably file size and time length;
   
7. Google didn't help me, although it took time for me to figure that out;
8. Twitter people responded, suggesting Box, DropBox and YouSendIt I've used all 3 before and tried them out - same problem with large files, but the YouSendIt Pro trial looked possible.
   
9. My long-suffering husband let me send a video to him using YouSendIt Pro's Trial - it took over 2 hours to upload and over 1/2 hour to download - that didn't seem like a good idea to me;
10. My other responsibilities were suffering by now, but the idea of channels being private had finally met up with a vague memory of my flipshare screen
    
    
11. Unfortunately I had deleted the presentation videos from the camera;
12. Luckily I was able to retrieve them from their storage space on my computer;
13. Still avoiding the manual, I managed to create 3 separate channels and send the links by email to the members in each group (and to me for all three) - it still took hours to upload, but my emails to me appeared to demonstrate success: I could click on the image of the video and see it.
    

Now would be a good time to glance back to the beginning to see my alternate titles - they'll make sense now ;->

What I have learned:

1. Persistence is an important aspect of learning;
2. Large files are harder to move around;
3. HD video files are large;
4. Bloody-minded pride in completing tasks is an important support to learning;
5. Knowing some aspects of what you're buying, the difference is file size between HD and SD, for instance, is a wise approach, even if it blocks impulse buying;
6. A corollary - not all salespeople know much about what they're selling;
7. People are helpful, but ultimately you have to find the right set-up yourself.

I haven't yet heard from the students I sent the flipshare channel links to; keep your fingers crossed for me.

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD
JNthWEB Consulting - http://jnthweb.ca/