Here she is

This is maybe the worst movie i have EVER seen.. but.. here it is.

More Templates

Those are great templates... here is a list of more that I give out in my classes...

• http://www.free-css-templates.com/free-templates.html
• http://ideas.nty3.com/css-templates.html
• http://www.oswd.org/
• http://www.openwebdesign.org/
• http://andreasviklund.com/templates/

web design templates

If anyone's looking for web site design templates, here's a useful site:
http://www.oswd.org/

Smoky Podcast

Episode one -- listen!

Twidiot

Click to Play

It's satire... on twitter... but you gotta wait until the very last line...

[btw the audio is not so great...;) ]

Thanks to Maureen, Lisa, and Lou!

Episode One: Body

Here's our great teaser to our video!

(2 seconds, 428 Kb)

Pasting in blip code

Here's a comment about this video.
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Body Clip

Click to Play

A tease at the longer form body video -- shot in class!

Assignment for 07/30/07

1. If you didn't shoot video, shoot video!

2. Work in iMovie or Final Cut to make an edit.

3. Watch all the chapters in this New Media Literacies Profile on Videoblogging.

We will look at compressing your projects and outputting... and posting to your blogs.

We'll also take a look at creating audio podcasts with GarageBand -- I'll post some audio for you all to work with.

USB 2.0 vs Firewire..

So, generally, when I do video editing it's on dedicated machine (read: internal harddrives)...
I did do little bits here and there with external drives, but for sure only minimal amounts with my external USB drives...

As such, I decided to do a bit of investigating after our discussion in class...

Turns out, there are more differences between the underlying architectures of usb and firewire.... so for video firewire is better...

At least according to this article:
http://www.thedvshow.com/faq-pro/index.php?action=article&cat_id=004&id=210

I think for little things (like our little videos) it's still going to be ok... but nonetheless wanted to share this tidbit since I thought they were more interchangeable than they actually are.

Lacie Drives

I bought a reconditioned Lacie drive from their website (250Gb for $80)
http://www.lacie.com/products/clearance/products/?id=10007
which has been great. I recommend you get one with firewire and usb if you ever want to "clone" or "ghost" your hard drive.
http://www.macmall.com
( a reliable vendor) also is having a sale on Lacie right now.

Lacie Rugged Drive

Here's that drive that you can literally kick around. It *is* USB 2.0 -- so could be used for PCs, as well.

It's a nifty little drive.

Final Project Proposals

A reminder that everyone should have a formal final project proposal.

So far I've received hard copy proposals from Lisa, Seth and Maureen.

I received an email description from Bruce (which I've responded to) and Tony and Alina posted their project descriptions.

So that leaves Engin and Tim -- did you post something (or send me?)

I'll meet with each of you individually tomorrow to go over these project proposals.

Tony's proj spec

Video Podcast Animated News Report

Here is an image of a Metrics "Dashboard" website that I'm in the process of building. The site will be used by NU leadership and co-op program advisors to monitor and manage program-performance. In the right column is a scrollable list of "Key Indicators". These are summary-performance statistics (ex. how many students are placed in co-op jobs, how many jobs are available, what types of experiential assignments are being completed, etc.). My project will be to 1) integrate video podcast subscription functionality into the site and to 2) produce a 60-second prototype video podcast of the key indicators. My hope is to produce the "Key Indicator" report using computer animation in the style of a Financial News Network Stock Market Update. Since such a report will have to be updated about once a month, my ultimate goal is to identify best practices for producing the video podcast routinely as an animation, and distributing it as a podcast via the dashboard site.

Please comment on the scope and suitability of this project idea.

Cameras & DV tapes

I still have one of the cameras from Ken. I bought a six-pack of DV tapes today, so if anyone wants one let me know. Ken was ok with the idea of my helping the class get access to the cameras (after hours, etc), because he usually leaves by 3:30pm.

Assignment for 07/23/07

Yikes! There's a reason I usually do this right after class.

Sorry for the delay in posting.

The assignment for Monday:

1. Purchase (at least) one mini-DV tape to use in class.

2. Please try to shoot something to bring into class to work with.

(am I forgetting something?!)

We'll pick up on Monday with iMovie and get into working with Final Cut Express... and perhaps Garageband.

I also would like to meet with each of you about your final project proposals.

Help with video

A project that demonstrates media convergence -- don’t worry if you don’t know how to implement certain technologies. Use each other as resources. As a requirement, everyone should offer some sort of help to at least one other person in class (could be a bit of code or designing a logo or helping with video).

Hello everyone: apologies for missing 2 classes... two monday's in a row where data was needed by the university leadership for tuesday... causing work into the evening. (excuses, excuses..)

I am happy to provide expertise in video production to anyone who would like to use me as a resource. My first graduate work (at BU) was in video production, and following that I enjoyed rather long career working in various producing capacities for video studios here in the Boston area.

Also, if you haven't seen it already, here is a rather effective "rich media" how-to about creating video that you might find an easy way to learn more about it...

http://www.current.tv/make/training

Del.icio.us

This tool is absolutely terrific.. It's really shines when managing lots of source-dependent research. I am trying to figure out how to get the del.icio.us and tag icons to install on a second desktop browser. I successfully loaded it into the toolbar of my browser at work as part of setting up my account. But when I went to my home computer and accessed it, i could not get back to the wizzard-sequence for loading the icons into my browser on my home machine.
Any ideas?

Facebook...

I wish Facebook had a better way for each user to apply some kind of rating on each friend to indicate the strength of the relationship-- something descriptive like:

1) "referred to me by___ "'
2) "I was referred by___ ";
3) "I'm a fan"; 4) "Fan of me";
5) "Appears we're mutual fans";
6) "Sharing first thoughts/ideas";
7) "Completed first engagement";

The user could have control over how much others see of this; would be helpful in prioritizing friends and networks for more refined outreach... you guys see anything like this on the site. I don't see anything...

Tony's Blog

My blog will live as a link within a new website I'm building. I want prospective users to enter the live prototype of the site, click on the blog link, and offer commentary and feedback on the design and usefulness of the site design.

I used Word Press. I guess you have to have a Word press account to post onto the blog. If you don't have an account, you can only comment on exisiting posts by the blog owner. (duh, can anyone confirm that this is, in fact, the case?)

I have posted two items, one asking for feedback on the overall design and navigability of the site, and a second asking for feedback on the reports that are available to users for download.

I'm still trying to figure out how to set up my link to the blog so that when you click on it from the site, the blog will open within the site, and not as a separate window. Any one got HTML skills? that could comment on how to approach this?


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