Getting Ready for Spring o9

What can I possibly do to torture the next groups of ED 407 students? I am making an attempt to balance to big assignments with the smaller *fiddling* around ones so that there is time to play and time to produce something useful.
I think the first blog with have a Picasa slide show in it rather than have everyone send me the link or share their album with me like they did last time... let's see how that goes.
Also, there will be a FAQ wiki set up as a holding pen for things that don't make sense. That way everyone has a place to go to post their questions, see who else is confused AND solve some things too.

My Inner Geek is Failing

I cannot seem to convert Jumpcut videos so they can be uploaded to YouTube

First the backround:
Assignment: Create a 30 second movie on a copyright law
Tools: only images/video captured from a cell phone AND a web editing tool (Animoto or Jumpcut)
Students: University level pre-service educators
Intended use: commercials on our Univ site reminding students of copyright law
Storage: YouTube channel for University

So that seems okay~ right?

Now the problem:
Problem: Jumpcut is FANTASTIC for cell phone images/video BUT proprietary. I cannot find a way to convert Jumpcut movies so they can be uploaded to YouTube. The Yahoo help says two things: 1. not possible at this time 2. use Keepvid with URL (didn't work)

I have used the Firefox Download Helper and now have .avi which do not upload to YouTube.
Somewhere in the sourcecoding their is a way to update the ffmpeg but I "know not of these things"

A solution I seek:

1. convert a Jumpcut for YouTube
2. convert a Download Helper .avi for YouTube
3. update the ffmpeg on a Mac to customize the video output in Download Helper
   

I have included a Jumpcut sample I made as well as a Jing shot of the ffmpeg preferences window.

Wow~ it feel like the Sunday New York Times crossword to me!

my screen preparing for cell phone fairy tales

my screen preparing for cell phone fairy tales
Originally uploaded by nononi28

Getting ready for class tonight and practicing using a Flickr image to add to my blog!

the euke is gone

IN thinking about the...

IN thinking about the audience yesterday, I am struck by how little resistance there was to the use of technology in a hybrid environment. The other thing that struck(?) me is there were only 2 case ____ people there. Everyone else was community college. listen

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The community colleges,...

The community colleges, are throwing the needs in such large numbers that the room had more than 40 people interested in Hybrid teaching structure, K12 is falling sadly behind. listen

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Hybrid Done Right

This follows up the presentation Dr. Rod and I prepared for today's TechEd '08 conference.

The audience was predominantly community college folk with a smattering of 4-year and the 2 courageous K-12 representees.

Presentation was well received.

Lisa shared the basic building blocks: the "rules" stuff college people need to know. Hybrid needs to supplement f2f time *meaningfully* not with bigger homework assignments!
I promised 3 things:

• grouping techniques
• examples of collaborative assignments in a CBM like Blackboard or Angel
• my new found passion for the SMS possibilities and how they relate

In hindsight, I needed more time. My closing was meant to be a cell phone "American Idol" type of vote on the tools presented. We really didn't have enough time to authenticate all the accounts so we could SMS our votes.
AND- this crowd seemed like a deeper investigation into the types of assignments used for groups would have been useful.

In a second version:

• grouping techniques
• examples assignments for the different types of groups in Blackboard
• different SMS tease

But man-o-man was this fun!