Thursday ED 407~ First evening of class

Here are Crystal, David, Erica, Tatianna, Mario, Lauren, Jessica, Laura, and Megan on the first night of class. Reflections from this evening's class included delight in creating a Blog for homework assignments. And they thought they were going to be learning PowerPoint!

jake & baffled joe

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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