November 26, 2008
by Clint
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I have used Picasa at home to organize my personal photo collection and I have found it is a very useful tool for my personal photos. It managed them well, had some nice browse features, and the basic photo editing … Continue reading
November 19, 2008
by Clint
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So, the question is – why use YouTube to host your video when the institution has a perfectly good media server sitting in the rack room? The Auricle asked this question recently and came up with 5 good reasons to … Continue reading
November 17, 2008
by Clint
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Well, I put this video together and demonstrated this technique at a video workshop for our faculty last week, only to have it fail miserably in Internet Explorer 7. Of course. Go figure. I have embedded dozens of YouTube videos … Continue reading
November 12, 2008
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As of March 2008, there were roughly 73.8 million videos on YouTube, with 200,000 added everyday. That’s a lot of video. And if you are looking for quality, educational video to use in a course, it’s a lot of noise. … Continue reading
October 4, 2008
by Clint
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Video is great, but the linear storytelling format sometimes forces you to watch a lot of irrelevant content before getting to the meat of the clip. Which is where a handy tool like Splicd comes in. Splicd let’s you edit … Continue reading
October 2, 2008
by Clint
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This is not going to be a PowerPoint is Evil rant. Heck, some people have even won Academy Awards and Nobel Prizes with their PowerPoint presentations, so there is no denying that, when used correctly, can be a powerful tool … Continue reading
June 26, 2008
by Clint
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A few days ago, Alan Levine fired off a tweet looking for a “YouTube-ish” web service for audio. I’ve also wondered if there was also a service out there that would allow users to upload audio and provide something as … Continue reading
May 10, 2008
by Clint
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I really like Jing. Sure, you could dish out hundreds of dollars for Captivate or Camtasia and get a bit more robust set of features (including the ability to create videos over 5 minutes and post production editing), but in … Continue reading
April 29, 2008
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Another gem from Common Craft and their excellent “In Plain English” series, this time about podcasting. The trouble I tend to experience with faculty, especially faculty who are fairly new users of technology, is explaining the key difference between a … Continue reading
February 22, 2008
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I imagine video remixers around the world are holding their collective breath today in hopes that Adobe will not go ahead and include Digital Rights Management (DRM) encryption in the new version of Flash servers. One of the great byproducts … Continue reading