Hi Everyone,
Although I completed the Gabcast assignment during our Module 3, I apparently forgot to post it to my blog. I think I must have been traumatized by that point, but I'm getting my feet back on track now :-).
Gabcast! PlugN2Learn #1
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Leigh's Screen Capture Assignment
Hi Everyone,I really struggled with this assignment. Apparently, the newest versions of RealPlayer, Windows Media Player & Quicktime don't seem to have this feature, or at least I could not translate the instructions from our course to any way relate to the versions of the software I had. So, I downloaded a piece of software that would just let me take a picture while playing a paused video. I don't think this should have been a 1 hour task or nearly this hard so if anyone knows what I'm missing please let me know ;-).Anyway, here is my still photo from a video...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Dr. Funk's Top 5 List - Video Podcast
Hi Everyone,
I must say, I've never spent Mother's Day learning new technologies, but after 7 hours of "sandbox" time today, this was quite an enjoyable day. I decided to expand on last week's lesson about podcasting this week as we explore creating online videos. I hope this is an acceptable application for this week's project.
Before today, I had never even been the one behind the camera taking video. But with a few words of encouragement from husband, away I went. After reviewing audio and video podcasts in our last module, I decided I wanted to create video podcasts as part of my hybrid Educational Research course this summer. So, today, I created a brief video introducing myself and a new feature for the course - Dr. Funk's Top 5 List. I will produce a video podcast each week highlighting the 5 most important concepts from the week's content.
After many tries, I finally managed to create the video, edit the video, save it into the correct format, publish it to iTunes and view it on my iPod. For me, this was quite an accomplishment!
If you'd like to view Dr. Funk's Top 5 List - Educational Research Episode 1, it is available in iTunes or you may wish to view it online at:
http://funkphd.podbean.com/
Happy Mother's Day Everyone!
Leigh
I'm testing compatibility so in addition to the direct link above, I'm embedding the video in this post to see that works.
I must say, I've never spent Mother's Day learning new technologies, but after 7 hours of "sandbox" time today, this was quite an enjoyable day. I decided to expand on last week's lesson about podcasting this week as we explore creating online videos. I hope this is an acceptable application for this week's project.
Before today, I had never even been the one behind the camera taking video. But with a few words of encouragement from husband, away I went. After reviewing audio and video podcasts in our last module, I decided I wanted to create video podcasts as part of my hybrid Educational Research course this summer. So, today, I created a brief video introducing myself and a new feature for the course - Dr. Funk's Top 5 List. I will produce a video podcast each week highlighting the 5 most important concepts from the week's content.
After many tries, I finally managed to create the video, edit the video, save it into the correct format, publish it to iTunes and view it on my iPod. For me, this was quite an accomplishment!
If you'd like to view Dr. Funk's Top 5 List - Educational Research Episode 1, it is available in iTunes or you may wish to view it online at:
http://funkphd.podbean.com/
Happy Mother's Day Everyone!
Leigh
I'm testing compatibility so in addition to the direct link above, I'm embedding the video in this post to see that works.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Reflections on Podcasting Experience
Hi Everyone,
Like several of my Advanced Technologies classmates, I found this module to be fun and challenging. I had been interested in podcasting for a while but had not taken the time to really explore the technical aspects of producing and publishing. While I am confident in my ability to create a podcast, I'm still struggling with the connections between the blog, podcast, podbean, iTunes etc. I seem to have missed an essential concept relating to the auto update component we learned in Module 3 and I'm having a hard time getting my podcasts connected to my blog.
Since I couldn't get my feed to update on my blog, I simply inserted the URL from my podbean site which graphically lists the podcasts. I think I like this better, since the page you go to is more appealing than the "feeds" page. But this also shows that I don't know what I'm doing and that I can't add podcasts and have them automatically update.
As for the exploration of my peers, I was able to review Peg's blog and subscribe to her podcasts. I think it is important to see how others do things and to get ideas for how we can advance our own efforts. I am getting frustrated with not being able to load the blogs/podcasts of my peers. At this point, I can't tell if this is a Windows Vista problem or if I just have to physically download every file and then try to open. I noticed this problem in Module 2, but I haven't figured out what's causing the problem and why I can't just click on the links or copy the links provided in our online dicussion areas and pull up the pages. Resolving that problem will be my goal this week!
Have a great week!
Leigh
Like several of my Advanced Technologies classmates, I found this module to be fun and challenging. I had been interested in podcasting for a while but had not taken the time to really explore the technical aspects of producing and publishing. While I am confident in my ability to create a podcast, I'm still struggling with the connections between the blog, podcast, podbean, iTunes etc. I seem to have missed an essential concept relating to the auto update component we learned in Module 3 and I'm having a hard time getting my podcasts connected to my blog.
Since I couldn't get my feed to update on my blog, I simply inserted the URL from my podbean site which graphically lists the podcasts. I think I like this better, since the page you go to is more appealing than the "feeds" page. But this also shows that I don't know what I'm doing and that I can't add podcasts and have them automatically update.
As for the exploration of my peers, I was able to review Peg's blog and subscribe to her podcasts. I think it is important to see how others do things and to get ideas for how we can advance our own efforts. I am getting frustrated with not being able to load the blogs/podcasts of my peers. At this point, I can't tell if this is a Windows Vista problem or if I just have to physically download every file and then try to open. I noticed this problem in Module 2, but I haven't figured out what's causing the problem and why I can't just click on the links or copy the links provided in our online dicussion areas and pull up the pages. Resolving that problem will be my goal this week!
Have a great week!
Leigh
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