Hey all!
I’ve decided to supplement some of my podcasts with vidcasts as well. Since vidcasts are so great for giving tutorials, I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone and use this as an opportunity to fulfill one of my Google Trainer obligations, which involve me giving regular sessions on Google Apps for Education. Enjoy!
It’s been out for 2 years, and I’ve only just discovered it. And yet: Valve’s Source Filmmaker has blown my mind. Check it out. See what’s possible for you, and your students, with this free program.
Check out this tutorial (one of many, comprehensive/exhaustive) on the lip-syncing capabilities of Source Filmmaker, among may other capabilities.
If you're looking for an easier way to turn the content in your head into a beautiful presentation, Slidebean has launched to give users presentation tools..
If you're looking for an easier way to turn the content in your head into a beautiful presentation, Slidebean has launched to give users presentation tools..
Looks great, and making stuff is SUPER fast.
Larry Ragan visited Alaska to check up on his son, a student in Anchorage, and to speak with us about the subject that is always on our minds here at eCampus: education as it is right now, and as it will be in the future. The COIL example set at Penn State has many educators and instructional designers excited, all around the globe, for how it has increased enrollment and innovated the shape and infrastructure of online education. Larry talks a little bit about what COIL has done to achieve its success, as well as how it plans to continue being successful.
In 1692 an artist known only as "A. Boogert" sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two,
In 1692 an artist known only as "A. Boogert" sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two,
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
I have remained skeptical of web X.0 media-rich articles, like NYT's "Snow Fall," purporting to be the future of journalism because new tools so often distract from the qualities of quality. Parallax scrolling doesn't make NYT"s "Snow Fall" followup, "The Jockey," into a great or even a notable article. Conversely, the simple still-image and text format of Grantland's engrossing "The End and Don King" diminishes its greatness not at all.
This isn't meant as a rebuke the authors or producers behind "The Jockey" for trying. I LIKE errors of largesse. The story simply didn't merit all the work put into it.
John Jeremiah Sullivan's article for NYT Magazine is a very good example of a story whose parts and details DO merit the extra attention and multi-modality of delivery. The subject is a mysterious duo of black pre-war lady-blues crooners whose driving minor hammer strumming may be the ultimate progenitor of Otis Taylor, to say nothing of their melancholy lyrics.
Check the article out if you have time. Bring headphones.
A book paired with an iPad app to inspire parents and kids to connect with nature, reinvent bedtime stories and explore their dreams.