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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Teacher appreciation week is about to end, but I have a final offer. While at the great NETA conference in Nebraska, I discovered a great class of students who, with their teachers, have set up a real-world business. They bid and won the contract for the street signs in their town. But the most fun [...]
Note: This repost includes a code fix in the documents below. Something in the blog authoring system corrupted it on the original post. Sorry about that! This week Google Earth introduced it’s latest update (version 5 in most operating systems). Some neat things: You can now record tours, say of state capitals, you can fly under [...]
FETC 2012! Here, now! Not really, but at FETC 2009 I was asked to do the closing keynote with a projection into 2012– fun challenge. (I’ll put that presentation online eventually.) It was the opportunity to try something new. So the way this big show (7,000+ folks) closed was with videos made on the cellphones of [...]
Video, as we all know, offers instant access to student attention. Video takes you across time, across boundaries, include microscopic and macroscopic boundaries. But video can also slow time and bend it to reveal physical phenomenon laying under day to day experiences. To see what I mean, visit the website for Discovery’s program Time Warp. [...]
Year in E-View. For the first post of the new year, I thought I would share some favorite posts from the DEN blogosphere from 2008. I took some informal polls, did some serious review and, wow: Note : Trolling great, old posts is a dangerous thing. The DEN home site is like the Brothers Grimm [...]
Take a Roman holiday–a Roman Empire holiday! I got an email from Googler AnnaBishop. She processes the Google Earth Pro requests from educators and wants them to keep on coming! So take advantage of that special offer by emailing GEEC@google.com (educators only! Everybody else pays the $400). She also let me know about the new [...]
This is a fun one. It is the “ChromaKeyYou’veGottaHaveHeart” effect, but think of it as an X-Ray machine. It turns a 3×5 notebook card into an “X-Ray” machine that sees inside the human body– with a few video tricks. Remember the X-Ray Glasses ad from kids’ magazines? It’s that! For this, you need: A) Videos [...]
An exploding mind can be a good thing. I was asked to work with the faculty at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins on the topic of educational technology. This was an important group by itself– and representative of an extremely important segment in education: the teacher preparation programs across the country. They monitor, [...]
The YouTube video of “Dino Dude’s ‘The People Whisper’” is now reposted in the entry below. I had initially posted it with a limit of 25 views, which was a blunder. It is now up for everyone. And, no, I didn’t break YouTube. . When it’s ready, I’ll also post the PowerPoint and step bystep [...]
This is the video we built. The one that no one could see in the fabulous StreamAthon. I realize it went fast. Here are the tools and sites I used for “Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Video (and Two You Did).” With one exception, all the tools and sites are free. [...]
This is post/paste from YouTube. We are demonstrating Web 2.0 at the fabulous Encyclo-media conference.
There’s more to share about using camcorders–and their great lens–for web cams. I’ve used the camcorder in the post below with Skype, iChat, and other apps, and will try a dead digital still camera next. But first! This message from Finland, via Steve Dembo’s Nokia cellphone. Not a bad “web cam” all by itself. The [...]
I was video chatting with a colleague on the other coast last week and was frustrated with the limitation of my webcam. In this case, I was using the built-in camera in the Mac PowerBook, but the same is true of typical webcams on the PC side. They have a fixed focal length and have [...]
The ironically titled site SmartTeaching.org” blogged a list claiming “100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers.“ Say it ain’t so. While there are some old favorites and familiar gems in the 100, there are also some terrible choices, videos that don’t serve teachers at all. Worse, old middle school teacher that I am, I am hard [...]
Okay, if you were lucky (or unlucky) enough to see the brief post from a day or so, you know that the “Latest Webinar in the Known World” refers to a little webinar malfunction we had in the DEN series. It was a perfect conspiracy of time zone changes, a dead computer, and vanished codes. [...]
I had a great time at the Discovery Educator Network National Institutes. Mike Bryant did Google Earth for the Leadership Councils and I did it for the National Institute. The great “face of the globe” is from Mike’s presentation here. I’m hoping it’s his image, because I’m using it. I twitted I was doing this [...]
LIVE from NECC! This post was initially made live during my presentation in the Lila Cockrell Theater. We did something in that session never done before (to my knowledge). We pasted a live feed from a cellphone (Mr. Steve Dembo’s) into Google Earth. Pretty fun. We also did it here, in the blog. That’s why [...]
Writing from NECC in San Antonio, Texas,where this blog will be viewed live during my session on cellphones in education (which NECC accepted, causing happy shock and insomnia). We’ll be checking out a live feed from a mystery guest during the session, which is at 3:30 PM Central Time onTuesday, July 1. The live feed [...]
I’m working on my presentation for NECC on things you can do with code and tinkered a little with the work of Cindy Lane, Jen Dorman, and others nicely noted in Matt Monjan’s blog. The trick is doing chromakey (the “weatherperson effect”) where a video clip can play inside another clip through a color that [...]
Although some of you may be thinking that this is the most wonderful time of the year because the school year is ending, for me it is also the time of student media festivals and teacher awards. Slick Rock had theirs, and you may have had yours at the school, district, or state level. On [...]
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