In this very special edition of Shining STARs, tonight at 7 PM we are featuring students from the Wilkes/Discovery Education Instructional Media program, who will be sharing some of the best projects that they’ve created during their coursework. Be prepared to be dazzled! You still have time to register.
Vince Hill is the Director of Credenda, an eSchool in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Two additional presenters, Sue Hellerman, a math/science teacher from Vancouver and Ruth Abatzoglou, a science teacher from CA will share their work. The fourth and final presenter, Jennifer Brinson, our own PA DEN STAR and PA Leadership Council Events Team Member, will present her Google Earth project on the 10 richest v. 10 poorest countries on the planet, her digital story on therapy dogs, and frustration-free technology, some of the work she did for differentiation, lesson plans for World War II, Model UN, and Person of the Century. Brinson is the Instructional Coach at Salisbury High School in Allentown, PA (and loves llamas too).
As a follow up to the Google Wave post, here’s the complete guide to Google Wave. Through the kindness (and generosity) of a great friend, I have 9 invites to offer. If you are interested, leave a comment with your email and I’ll forward your request to our Director of Data and Technology at STSD, Randy Ziegenfuss, and he will send it your way. Enjoy the Wave!
Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
Table of Contents
This book’s contents are freely available to view online. Click on a chapter to read it.
I posted about Google Wave a while ago, but now happily am using it and must say I really love it. The Wave promise was that it would redefine email and web communication. You might want to try it yourself to see if it lived up to the hype and the promise . I’ll let you decide.
Here are some related videos that can help you get started with The Basics.
Starting A New Wave
A Wave can be both a document and a conversation.
Replying To A Wave
You can reply anywhere in a wave.
Editing Waves
All participants on a wave can edit any part of the wave, at the same time.
Reading Through Waves
To quickly read through unread blips in a wave, hit the spacebar.
Updating Your Profile
Help your contacts recognize you on a wave. In the Contacts area, just click your name. Learn more.
Working With Waves
The playback feature lets you move through the history of a wave.
Installing Extensions
Extensions let you add rich content and interactions to waves, or integrate with other systems.
One of the more recent features of Animoto’s full-length video version (what you and your students get when you apply) is short video footage insertion. I tried this new feature and it works best when you select half-time for your video, another reason why you want Animoto in Education. It gives you speed features you do not have access to in the 30-second version. Their toolbox is new as well, making it much easier to share your work.
So, if you happened to hear that Animoto in Education no longer exists, consider the rumor squelched, and get busy applying for your free student accounts. The code creates a 6-month renewable-for-free account.
While I’m catching up on just about everything on a rainy PA Saturday morning, I find that my inbox is full of Tech Tools updates, BETA launches, and we are the winners. In the case of Vimeo, we could quite literally be winners with $5 million up for grabs in a contest. Read on.
Here’s what’s new on Vimeo:
New Features Coming!
In a few short weeks we’ll be launching our fancy new state-of-the-art Desktop Uploader. “What on Earth could that be?” you may ask. Well, it’s an easy way for you to upload videos right from your desktop! And if that’s not enough, you will be able to upload multiple files, pause and resume uploading, and edit titles and descriptions without even launching a web browser.
We are also still very hard at work on a robust new Stats feature that we’ve been building for almost a year . We can’t tell you too much more right now, but what we can say is that you’ll have so much information about your videos, you might just explode. Seriously. For a sneak peak, check out our blog. Everyone will get some of the goodness, but you should upgrade to Plus for the full impact.
Other News
Haven’t made a video in a while? Get involved with the community and participate in one of Vimeo’s great Projects! Every weekend the Vimeo Staff propose a cool project on our Blog or you can check out the Projects Forum and peruse through hundreds of other cool video projects that you can participate in.
For all you developers out there, we just launched our new and improved Advanced API. There are a bunch of new methods and a whole new uploading interface, so if you’re interested in making a Vimeo app, or integrating Vimeo into your own site, check out the new documentation.
Speaking of developers, we’re hiring! Of course, we want the best, most awesome people on the planet. If that’s you, take a look at the job descriptions here and send us your resume and/or portfolio.
$5 Million up for Grabs!
That’s right folks, we’ve teamed up with Doritos this year for the Crash The Super Bowl contest! It’s simple: make a commercial that ranks in the top three on the USA Today Ad Meter and you win. Check out great tips and tricks from last year’s winners, the Herbert Brothers. Visit the site for details.
If you were a Mogulus user, then you already know that it changed its name a while ago to Livestream, and you probably received the same email that I am copying and pasting. (If you get a login screen from owa.cliu, just click it closed and read on–a glitch we’re working on to remove permanently). But if you are new to tv channels, you just might want to check out the features Livestream has to offer (quite a lot, actually). Think of the many uses of this tool at a conference presentation, as a DEN GURU or STAR, as you stream live the many integrative ways Discoverystreaming and the Builders work back to Web 2.0 tools.
From the Livestream Team, here’s what’s new.
The Livestream User Experience Initiative is officially underway. Today’s public beta launch marks the beginning of a comprehensive program designed solely to enhance the Livestream experience for you and your viewers.
Please feel free to add /beta to the end of any channel page and take the new model for a test drive today. Put the top down, let the wind blow through your hair, kick the tires and please give us your feedback. This is a Beta release so don’t be alarmed if you find a bug or two on the windshield.
www.livestream.com/channelname/beta
New Look
Livestream Channel and Clip pages have been completely redesigned. We hope that you find the new look cleaner, friendlier and more intuitive. New clip page URLs will also be shorted for easy sharing.
Visit the live page »Livestream now offers control over the appearance of user channel pages. Broadcasters may now choose colors or background images to fully customize the look of their channels. Coming very soon is the addition of control over the foreground color as well.
Livestream has gone LARGE with a completely redesigned 16:9 video player. Goodbye TV fuzz. Hello beautiful lightweight, embeddable and easily customizable new player.
Visit the live page »and all elements of the new embeddable player are now customizable for seamless integration. Color, size and even such specifics as auto-play and auto-mute are all customizable. Players have been designed so that multiple players can be embedded into the same page and the embedded thumbnails are also constantly updating live in real-time when the players are inactive.
And don’t worry. The old embeddable player will continue to be available. We will continue to support the old player as long as is necessary.
New Chatting
Livestream has introduced a revolutionary new player-side chat companion. Users can discuss live videos in real time using Facebook, Twitter or the soon to be released updated Livestream chat. Some advancements of the new livestream chat include a new cleaner look, ability to embed the chat separately, login required option for chatting, IP banning, easy moderation within the chat window itself (no need to use the studio) and the ability to promote any user to chat moderator. This chat widget will also be embeddable very shortly.
Sharing videos and channels has never been easier with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg and Delicious just one click away. Customization of the new embedded player is also accessible from the new Share page.
The new browsable searchable Video Library makes it infinitely easier for viewers to find videos. And because the new library is HTML, search engines are now able to crawl and return results for individual videos.
Just add /beta to the end of any channel page to experience all of these changes. We hope you enjoy the new pages and look forward to your feedback. Please use the new Beta section of the Livestream forum to report any bugs and any issues you may have while exploring the new pages.
Access, organize, edit and archive all of your precious family movies on Pixorial. Remix and share online. Easily create keepsakes, DVDs, downloads and more!
You want to create own cool videos clips with favorite popular music in top quality? It only takes a few minutes, your own photos or images or videos and Clipgenerator! It’s free of charge and a lot of fun!
Christmas celebration is one of the biggest religious festivities and most celebrated events of the world, which is celebrated in the commemoration of the auspicious birth of Lord Jesus in different ways, Christmas is the annual holiday in several nations. Christmas party is the key to every grand Christmas celebration, that provide fun activities for young and old alike to enjoy the holidays and the special time with friends, relatives and family.
New Year celebration is one of the most pleasurable event and the greatest celebration in all over the world. Though friends and relatives prefer to meet each other and extend greetings, the exercise becomes nearly impossible considering the number of people who have to be wished on the occasion. Therefore people prefer sending wishes through greeting cards to their relatives and friends.
Wikis can be used for many things by different people. Even with the limited editing tools, there is enough available to create some online content for any purpose. There is a blog post on the smarttech.com site that offers 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom.
When you are finished reading this article, visit this site to compare over 25 different types of wiki programs.
At fontcapture.com you can create a font from your very own handwriting. There’s no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner. Simply fill in the font template, scan and upload it to our website, and download your completed font. The fonts you create using fontcapture.com can be used on both Windows and Mac computers.
At fontcapture.com you can create a font from your very own handwriting. There’s no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner. Simply fill in the font template, scan and upload it to our website, and download your completed font. The fonts you create using fontcapture.com can be used on both Windows and Mac computers. - By Heather Hurley
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In this very special edition of Shining STARs, tonight at 7 PM we are featuring students from the Wilkes/Discovery Education Instructional Media program, who will be sharing some of the best projects that they’ve created during their coursework. Be prepared to be dazzled! You still have time to register.
The fourth and final presenter, Jennifer Brinson, our own PA DEN STAR and PA Leadership Council Events Team Member, will present her Google Earth project on the 10 richest v. 10 poorest countries on the planet, her digital story on therapy dogs, and frustration-free technology, some of the work she did for differentiation, lesson plans for World War II, Model UN, and Person of the Century. Brinson is the Instructional Coach at Salisbury High School in Allentown, PA (and loves llamas too).
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And don’t worry. The old embeddable player will continue to be available. We will continue to support the old player as long as is necessary.
