It was a glittering, mind-blowing moment. In many ways, it symbolized what was to follow: connections, commitment, and wild energy. There, in a massive room, in the center of a broad stage, lit like a Greek statue, rested a large golden cylinder, jammed with thousands of handwritten pieces of paper. Thousands of folks had delayed
Finally – Higher (Ed) Love
First, some history, then the breakthrough. More than 13 years ago, with the appropriately digital birthday 01/01/01, the online digital revolution moved confidently into educational resources. The digital media library which grew into Discovery Education Streaming offered content teachers had been using on VCR’s, audio cassettes, film strips or film. Bandwidth was minuscule back then
Step by Step Mash-Up
One of the fun sessions for me at the DEN Summer Institute was “Media Mashups.“For a webinar follow-up, folks requested a step-by-step on how to do it. Here it is, later in this post. Basically, it is how to go to a Web2.0 content creation site, like Blabberize or Gizmoz, screen capture the self-created content
MashUps in Denver + MovieMaker ChromaKey
Want your projects to go to the national tech conference? At ISTE 2010 (the conference formerly known as NECC), I’m doing a presentation but the most mediamaking-fun will be the Web 2.0 videos+original videos+curriculum mashups. Basically, it’s creating content on Web 2.0 sites, like Gizmoz, Blabberize, Wordle, etc., then video-screen capturing it, and editing it
Mashups at ISTE: Got Projects! + MovieMaker Chromakey
At ISTE 2010 (the conference formerly known as NECC), I will doing a few presentations but the most mediamaking-fun will be the Web 2.0 videos+original videos+curriculum mashups. Basically, it’s creating content on Web 2.0 sites, like Gizmoz, Blabberize, Wordle, etc., then video-screen capturing it, and editing it with student work and/or DES videos. Living on the
Google Earth Alert! Macs Beware!
If you are on a Mac at school and you are considering using the latest upgrade to Google Earth–think again. If you have been using the great Jing trick (previous posts) to have your students reporting from anywhere in the world, the embedded code won’t work in Google Earth version 5.0.11733.9347 (May 5, 2009). Really
Fix for the Jing/Google Video Insert
For some maddening reason, WordPress seems to alter the code in the original post about immediate video inserts on any spot on the globe. Here are documents with the fix. Word document or .txt file. Copy and paste from here. The original post tells you more. This came up when we worked with the fabulous
Little Mac Chromakey Detail
I spent a great day in Flagler County, Florida, with some innovative, eager teachers. Mostly Mac based, they are excited about bringing their students’ content creation skills into curriculum-based videos from DES and the free chromakey tools on the Mac, such as Photobooth and iMovie 9. Both will let students put themselves into videos and
Nation’s Oldest Student Media Festival
Saturday, May 30, the nation’s old event celebrating student media and multimedia, the 43rd California Student Media & Multimedia Festival was held in two California locations. As the host for 16 years, it was a renewing pleasure to see the fabulous work students and teachers are capable of. In an era when high stakes
Nation's Oldest Student Media Festival
Saturday, May 30, the nation’s old event celebrating student media and multimedia, the 43rd California Student Media & Multimedia Festival was held in two California locations. As the host for 16 years, it was a renewing pleasure to see the fabulous work students and teachers are capable of. In an era when high stakes