Apperceptions

Backstage With The Students

Here's a short clip showing the equipment we were using in the video editing booths while the Ex'pression College event was going on.  Here, Fernando, Chris Ritke, Richard Pascual and I try to figure out how to capture from the digital tape into Final Cut Pro.  This was a first time experience for all of us (I had never even held a DV tape before).  Luckily, we had help from Jon Scanlon of Ex'pression.  Thanks Jon! 

Jon got us going, but we ditched FCP and used iMovie instead.  It was easier as none of us knew FCP!

Then we got our next suprise: unsynced audio!

Ex'pression

We're putting on a videoblogging presentation and event at the Ex'pression College of Digital Art on Friday. Here's the first post to the new vlog.

Teach the Children

Something Ryanne said in an email reminded me that we need to think more about videoblogging for vids. Lots of issues there. Here's a moment from the Meet The Vloggers (the new MTV!) last friday in Los Angeles at The Grove Apple store. So how do we present videoblogging to kids? Josh Leo and others have posted related articles at We Are The Media.

49Media.com Podcast

I'm too stoked.  Chris Ritke was kind enough to ask me for an interview for his podcasts.  I had too much fun and it's now on the 49Media.com.

Please visit 49Media for the complete post.  Here is a link to the mp3 file.

"Chris speaks with Markus Sandy about Spinflow.org, video blogging, vlogifying people and organizations, Podcast Hotel, Spincasting, videoblogging street teams, Blogher & a Spinflow sponsored west coast vlogger meetup, SpinXpress and more."

Chris was also so kind as to put the podcast on the Internet Archive.  Thanks Chris.

Workshop Memories

Something triggered an old memory and I felt I should vlog it.  Sorry if it's a bit long (6 minutes) and I know I have to get all this down better, but the important thing is to get the vids out there. 

Hopefully this has better compression. I followed Michael Verdi's great compression tutorial notes and it looks like I got at least 20% smaller files. 

The start up still seems a bit slow to me - bear with me please as I figure this out and try to keep up with all the pros.

Anyway, here is a little story about the early days of teaching desktop publishing on the first Macintosh's.  Click the pic and enjoy!

Elgg and Apcala - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com

An interesting article on social software tools for "e-portfolios" and beyond.  It has several good links to papers and new web services. I signed up for Apcala.  It looks like they are still working out the kinks in Apcala, as I signed up, but never got an email reply back I got my email reply (it appears that my hosting provider, Brinkster, is the one working the kinks out).  I can't wait to check it out.

Link: Elgg and Apcala - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com.

One of the things being talked about in academia at the moment is how to use social software to assist learning in higher education. This goes beyond “e-portfolios”, which are more or less online CVs with embedded examples of work, to create a network of people who share reflections and objects in a learning environment.

Blogging and Academia

An interesting post from the Northern Voice conference in Vancouver (picture from Marc Canter) about the "Blogging and Academia" session.  Topics included: identifying educational application areas, barriers to educational blogging, downsides of blogs in education, blogs as genre and academic blogging projects.

Link: Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Blogging and academia panel in Vancouver.