Dr. Wesch was the keynote speaker at the conference I attended at UConn on April 11, 2008. The conference was called "The New Media Literacies for Today's Plugged-in Generation". The conference's tag line was "a conference promoting media literacy in young people today."
Dr. Wesch, a cultural anthropologist and digital ethnographer from Kansas State University became a prominent figure in this field after he produced the video in the title of this blog and uploaded it to YouTube. It has been watched by over 3 million people.
In order to get this video to play in the blog, I had to convert it from a flash movie to a .avi format using the conversion tool at Zamzar.com. It is a fairly large file of 46 mb, but Blogger says it will take a movie file of up to 100mb. If it plays in the frame below, we'll have success.
If not, it's back to the drawing board.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
A PowerPoint Presentation from Helen Blowers, the initiator of the CLA Classroom Learning 2.0 Project
I haven't posted in nearly a month. It is now Sunday, April 20, and I have to return to school tomorrow after a very nice week off. I was showing my brother my Google Notebook and somehow got caught in the web and started following links from my notebook concerning my project with the California Library Association's "Classroom Learning 2.0 Project."
I found the presentation below which Helen Blowers had presented at a conference.
It is a static presentation, but it reviews the project nicely and shows how other participants were engaged in the process.
If you click on the icon of the people in the bottom right of the frame, the slide show will open in the application in which she created it -"Slide Share". There you can click on the icon of a slide projector, and the show will open full screen which makes it easier to read.
Learning 2.0
Presentation for Texas Lib Assoc.
I found the presentation below which Helen Blowers had presented at a conference.
It is a static presentation, but it reviews the project nicely and shows how other participants were engaged in the process.
If you click on the icon of the people in the bottom right of the frame, the slide show will open in the application in which she created it -"Slide Share". There you can click on the icon of a slide projector, and the show will open full screen which makes it easier to read.
Learning 2.0
From: hblowers, 2 days ago
Presentation for Texas Lib Assoc.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Learning New Things all the time
I was working on my Web2.0 California Library Association project and followed one of their links to Eric Langhorst's page. He is an eighth-grade history teacher in Liberty, Missouri who has been using collaborative web 2.0 tools with his classes for the past few years. He is very willing to share what he's learned with teachers all over the world. Without Web 2.0 tools, this would be nigh on to impossible.
Anyway, when I clicked on a "slideshare" presentation in his blog about why it's so important for educators to embrace Web 2.0 tools and use them with their students, I saw a link where I could embed his presentation in my blog. When I clicked on the link, it gave me a choice. I could copy the .html code and paste it into a post, OR I could click on the "Blogger" icon, type in my username and password, and have it embedded automatically. I clicked on that link, and within a minute, the presentation was embedded in my blog.
Please take time to click through Mr. Langhorst's presentation. It is very persuasive and inspirational.
Anyway, when I clicked on a "slideshare" presentation in his blog about why it's so important for educators to embrace Web 2.0 tools and use them with their students, I saw a link where I could embed his presentation in my blog. When I clicked on the link, it gave me a choice. I could copy the .html code and paste it into a post, OR I could click on the "Blogger" icon, type in my username and password, and have it embedded automatically. I clicked on that link, and within a minute, the presentation was embedded in my blog.
Please take time to click through Mr. Langhorst's presentation. It is very persuasive and inspirational.
Dr. Dellinger Blogs
Dr. Dellinger is going to China from April 8 to April 21.
He will keep in touch with us via his blog.
Here is the link:
http://dellingerblog.blogspot.com
He will keep in touch with us via his blog.
Here is the link:
http://dellingerblog.blogspot.com
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Still trying to upload a video and have it play successfully in Blogger
I had a lot of trouble uploading videos to the blog. They would play in the preview mode when I was in the "dashboard" view of my blog, but there would be a blank area with a little white box with as red x in it.
I deleted the post (actually updating this on Sunday, April 20, 2008), and then I uploaded a small video I had created using PhotoStory3. This one uploaded and played in the blog itself.
I still want to have the blog by M. Wensch be able to play here instead.
I deleted the post (actually updating this on Sunday, April 20, 2008), and then I uploaded a small video I had created using PhotoStory3. This one uploaded and played in the blog itself.
I still want to have the blog by M. Wensch be able to play here instead.
Monday, March 17, 2008
The video won't play at home, either.
Well, since the video won't play on my home computer where there is no blocking, it must be some other problem. Back to the drawing board.
The Experiment Continues
Well, I uploaded the converted video from my desktop to my blog. The upload time was not too bad, but it took a long time to publish it to my blog.
Unfortunately, when I went to look at the new blog post at school, there was a red x in a little white box where the video should be playing.
I went back into Blogger to "edit" my post and clicked on preview. The video played fine there, so there wasn't a problem with uploading it. Even converted to a .mpg in Zamzar, it must keep some of the coding that lets the blocking software know the video originates from YouTube.
I will have to see if the video will play when I am on my home computer.
It's all a leaning experience.
We have to work out the bugs.
Unfortunately, when I went to look at the new blog post at school, there was a red x in a little white box where the video should be playing.
I went back into Blogger to "edit" my post and clicked on preview. The video played fine there, so there wasn't a problem with uploading it. Even converted to a .mpg in Zamzar, it must keep some of the coding that lets the blocking software know the video originates from YouTube.
I will have to see if the video will play when I am on my home computer.
It's all a leaning experience.
We have to work out the bugs.
Using Zamzar to convert a YouTube video
I followed Warren's instructions and was able to copy the video that is blocked in my entry below. The video file that I saved to the the new server on Drive Y is over 46mb, and I'm concerned about uploading it to this blog as I'm not sure of limitations. Well, I'll give it a try. If it uploads properly, this will be a good way to deal with the blocking of YouTube at school.
March 18, 2008 - I just deleted the uploaded movie. When I used Zamzar, I converted the movie from YouTube (Flash format) into an .mpg. When I clicked on the filmstrip to see about uploading it again, I saw that Blogger will accept the following formats: AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media. There is a 100MB limit.
I am going to try and convert the file into one of the accepted formats and upload it again - another day.
March 18, 2008 - I just deleted the uploaded movie. When I used Zamzar, I converted the movie from YouTube (Flash format) into an .mpg. When I clicked on the filmstrip to see about uploading it again, I saw that Blogger will accept the following formats: AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media. There is a 100MB limit.
I am going to try and convert the file into one of the accepted formats and upload it again - another day.
Friday, March 14, 2008
YouTube Blocking at School
The video I embedded played at home, but when I opened my blog at school, there was only a shadow of the box where it would play. That is because YouTube is blocked. I fully understand why it is blocked and agree with the policy. It is unfortunate that some people mount such inappropriate content on YouTube which is a repository for some very good video selections.
I am going to try and follow Warren's directions on using the newly-created video server space and see if I can embed this video so it will be available.
By the way, the times on these posts are incorrect. I have to figure out how to adjust the settings in the blog to reflect the correct time. I was not up and working on the blog at 3:00 in the morning.
I am going to try and follow Warren's directions on using the newly-created video server space and see if I can embed this video so it will be available.
By the way, the times on these posts are incorrect. I have to figure out how to adjust the settings in the blog to reflect the correct time. I was not up and working on the blog at 3:00 in the morning.
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