I am in cadre that was given MacBook Pros to do podcasting and vodcasting this Summer and upcoming school year. Not too shabby, I downloaded Handbrake already in order to convert video from one format into another. This was made essential because my Flip video camera only records in .AVI format, something the mac hates. [...]
This post from Free Technology for Teachers made me think about the videos I use in my classroom. In it, they go through over 30 different ways to get video for the classroom. Some are better than others, but they annotate the sources to the quality and content. From these sources, I use TED and [...]
A couple of topics in this posting. First off, here is a link to a site that has collected 100 videos for use in the classroom. Not all of these are for learners, some are for teachers, but still, there are some really great videos here. Secondly, in the comments to Dan’s post on videos [...]
Okay, Dan issued a challenge, and since I have spent some time this summer working on just this topic, I thought I would contribute. I have several different categories. Statistics, “Gateway”, Physics, Algebra, and DYAV & Personal Development. Some of these fall under more than one category, but I will only list them in one [...]
So, I finished my last post, and realized that I was talking, but showing nothing. So, start to finish, including the time to upload to Vimeo AND for vimeo to convert the video and Photo Story to render the video and me to type this second post. Meaning this is all inclusive time, here. I [...]
Well, some of us are not as good as Dan is when it comes to video. Heck, I bet 99% of us couldn’t do the things he does with video. But why let that stop us from using video, and more importantly, coming up with ways to have our learners constructively use video in the [...]
For one of my classes (two sections) I was given an 89 Gig Ipod Video. This class is (badly) called the Gateway class, and it is a quarter of Post Alg 2 mathematics in Finance, a quarter of Mathematics in Art, a quarter of Mathematics in Technology / Computers, and a quarter of Mathematics in [...]