[DDN] video blogging class overview
hi DDN community - for those who might be thinking about teaching a class on video blogging, appended below is an overview of a 4 session (4 times 1.5 hours) class i'm teaching on video blogging in takoma park, maryland. feel free to use this in whatever way helps you. the first session of the class went very well last night. here's a 20-second video we created for an imaginary product one of the students thought up -- frozen lizard pops. as a group, we brainstormed what the text of this commercial and who in the group would be saying which parts of the text. http://www.writersforliteracy.org/videobloggingclass1.mp4 all of the students in this class were pretty astounded at the short amount of time between when we were brainstorming this commercial to when we were viewing it on the web. they left the class with a feeling of empowerment -- of possibilities. it was a fun class to teach. it's useful to note that i don't yet have a video blog myself. i have the component skills for creating a video blog, though. - phil Video Blogging Class Takoma Park Recreation Department Phil Shapiro, Instructor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What we'll be learning in this class - Some basics in shooting and editing video using free video editing software - iMovie (Macs) or Windows Movie Maker II (Windows XP.) How to export video to create video files that are viewable on the web. (MPEG-4 video format is the most recommend format. It is viewable by all computers - Windows, Macintosh and Linux.) How to upload your videos to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) which provides free web hosting. How to set up your blog using Blogger.com (owned by Google.) Blogger is a free service used by millions. Connecting your blog with the video that you have uploaded. Telling people how they can subscribe to your video blog. (using iTunes or FireAnt) Resources - Video Blogging Tutorial http://www.freevlog.org Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) Cyberduck (free file transfer program for Mac OS X.) http://www.cyberduck.ch FileZilla (free file transfer program for Windows) http://www.apple.com/itunes http://fireant.tv In this class we'll also be covering which features to look for in a digital camcorder. * Microphone input jack. * 16 x 9 video format. We'll also talk about the possibilites of using your digital still camera for video blogging. (The Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras shoots nice video for putting on the web.) Sample videos to check out on the web. http://www.archive.org/details/juanwilliamsonmarshall Http://www.archive.org/details/multimediastorytelling http://www.archive.org/details/PhilShapiroMrCappucciTribute2 http://www.archive.org/details/woodyspeaks http://macpropodcast.com/ Can you create an audio podcast from the audio portion of your video blog? Most definitely yes. What is the Feedburner service and how do we use it? http://feedburner.com/ * Tips for publicizing your video blog. * Privacy concerns. Encouraging and managing your video blog public feedback. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html Wisdom starts with wonder. - Socrates Learning happens through gentleness. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Video Blogging Week 2006
Hi everyone, It's that time of year again - it's Video Blogging Week 2006, the second-annual showcase of video blogs from around the world. The idea behind video blogging week is to challenge bloggers to post vidoes to their blog seven days in a row - April 3-9. Last year, around 30 bloggers participated, and I expect the numbers to be much higher this time around. (Since Monday I've counted at least 50 participants, and we're just getting started.) How to participate: The basic instructions can be found at http://videobloggingweek2006.blogspot.com. All you have to do is post a video to your blog and tag it videobloggingweek2006 on Technorati. To do this, you post the following code in each video blog entry: Technorati Tag: a href=http://www.technorati.com/tag/videobloggingweek2006; rel=tagvideobloggingweek2006/a This will allow the public to access all of the videos in one place, which can be found here: http://www.technorati.com/tag/videobloggingweek2006 So if you're a video blogger or are just interested in the evolving world of video blogging, please join us! thanks, andy -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.andycarvin.com -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] video blogging from Bangladesh
Hi everyone, Right now I'm in Bangladesh for a government Internet policy conference in relation to the World Summit on the Information Society. I just spent the day visiting schools in rural Bangladesh, observing students utilizing the schools' telecentres. I'll be posting video of the telecentres, along with other clips from Bangladesh, to my blog; so far I've got three clips posted already. http://www.andycarvin.com enjoy, andy -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05
Andy Carvin wrote: (...) Hi Claude, I think this was intended as a play on the expression, Greetings, space cadets, which is in itself a reference to the old Space Cadet radio show. A somewhat obscure American cultural reference, in no way intended as connected with actual military cadets. Oops, thanks for the explanation, Andy - and my apologies for the misunderstanding, Peter: apart my ignorance of American culture, the recurring war theme in your post also bent my (mis)understanding of the word. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Monday, 10-17-05
Monday Morning ~ Gracias Claude and Andy ~ Today is a full moon for October! The life that I live in is a real life and every time I go outside I know I am in a war zone. I live in the inner city in Downtown Sacramento where death is not a shocker. I do not walk outside into the streets thinking I am in the best of all possible worlds with butterflys fluttering around my heart, I know better. Drive-by shootings are not an unusual freak phenomena around here. Plus, keep in mind that I am the Moderator for a few progressive groups and sometimes I post to them when I post to the DDN Group. Some of my Members I have known online for years now, sometimes we talk on the phone and a few I have met in person. So it is not as anonymous as may first seem apparent and humor is a quality I have to help me cope with the seriousness of life. I will sometimes CC or BCC to others postings from the DDN Group in the hope that they will see a bigger picture of what is happenng online. Some of us are isolated because of disability or live in rural areas... so I try to keep them 'in the loop'. I might choose a larger bold font to make it easier for certain people to actually read what I write better. And I do not want to scare anyone off from joining in with a Group because they feel they are not astute, clver or smart enough with degrees after their names I also work with recoverng dope addicts and sometimes we lose people to their chemical addiction either through re-entry into prison, them 'going out' back into a self-destructive lifestyle or on occasion one dies from a drug overdose. Many of us are fightng the drug war on a daily constnat basis. So life for me is never a very smooth business, but I do love life among the living! I see the blogs and blogging as growing exponentially as it brings about more and more worldwide connections and interconnections. I love the Internet because of its capability of bringing people together from all over the world and from different cultures who never ever would known of each other without the Communication Powers of the Internet. We find 'kindred spirits' and combat isolation via the Internet, though nothing replaces eye-to-eye and face-to-face conversational communictions. However, we must keep in mind that the text word alone on a computer screen leaves much to be desired as we cannot fully convey with only text word our tones, our emotions, our states-of-mind. But is try... I do try. The beauty of life is in its diversity and the power of life is in its harmony. Help Build Bridges, Not Borders! Peter S. Lopez ~Field Coordinator and Cyber Cadet Sacramento, Califas, USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HumaneRightsAgenda/ http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/sacranative P.S. ~~~ Digital Divide Network Blogs http://www.digitaldivide.net/blogs/ Create Your Own Blog Now http://www.blogger.com/start Claude Almansi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Carvin wrote: (...) Hi Claude, I think this was intended as a play on the expression, Greetings, space cadets, which is in itself a reference to the old Space Cadet radio show. A somewhat obscure American cultural reference, in no way intended as connected with actual military cadets. Oops, thanks for the explanation, Andy - and my apologies for the misunderstanding, Peter: apart my ignorance of American culture, the recurring war theme in your post also bent my (mis)understanding of the word. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Fight Back Against Amerikan Fascism! Peter S. Lopez~Field Coordinator Sacramento, Califas, USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HumaneRightsAgenda/ http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/sacranative - Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05
On Blogging and Other Stuff Hola All Fellow Cyber Cadets ~ For a few years now, despite the offs-and-ons, ins-and-outs and ups-and-downs of my lifes Spiritual Journey, I have been bold and brave enough to express myself via the Internet without foolish fear of self-exposure in search of kindred souls out in cyberspace through countless Emails, postings to Online Groups, drop-ins at Chat Rooms and occasional Instant Messages. There were times I posted from the Downtown Library, sneaking out an Email from Job Centers, hopping onto a friends computer for a while and always ready to bounce out at a given moment, grabbing my backpack in hand. Even during times when I homeless and had no Personal Computer at home I usually found a way to reach out to others I came across on the Path with Heart. Here now, on this clear cool Sunday morning, I am blessed to be at home and to have Comcast wireless broadband thanks to my Amigo on my own PC finally! Circumstances change in time, space and terrain. Life is a long series of changes and we must change with changing times. The future comes at us whether we are prepared to change or not. I hold to the basic core belief that freely sharing is caring. In fact, the greed of not sharing between the haves and the have-nots is a big part of the root problem upon Mother Earth. We do not freely share our natural resources with each other because of our fear, our greed and our hatred. A true kind humane being should always have care, concern and compassion for all creatures of the Great Creator, that is, all living beings upon Mother Earth. Openly sharing the best we have to offer, be it a glass of water or food for thought, may be the hardest test of the genuine humaneness of ones individual character or our collective character as a people, especially when we should strive to love the redeemable sinner, but are obligated to hate the vile sin. Failures have just not learned how to succeed in life. No one is a born loser. We are all born winners. However, the blows and battles of the war of life can wear us out, knock us down and cause us to lose faith, lose love, lose heart, yet, faint hearts never win decisive battles in protracted war. Indeed, life is war whether we choose to fight in it to really win or choose not to fight and be doomed to surely lose. Life is a long protracted war and those who fail to see that are just not combat ready in a world already at war. Times have really changed for the worse these last few years. Havent you noticed? I refuse to live my life in frozen fear, in weak hatred and in constant suspicion. Ultimately, it is not a matter of merely how long we live in a quantitative time-sense, but it is how well we live in a qualitative life-sense; it is how noble, how just and how humane we have been towards others in the scales of eternal time that counts in the end. The rest is just inhaling and exhaling any animal can do that! Cast not thy precious pearls before filthy swine nor give what is Holy and Sacred to rabid dogs. Many online groups and chat rooms are akin to the insanity of the Tower of Babel wherein we speak endlessly to really no one but ourselves because no one reads, no one listens, no one responds. We preach sermons to a convinced choir online like birds of a feather out on a limb, yet, forget our spouses, our roommates, our neighbors next door, and our local refugees in the streets. Even some of our own loyal ever-loving pets languish in pens, cages and rooms in still silent torment dying from our own neglect, our own apathy, and our own self-centeredness. And pets can be two-legged! Look around you! We seek through the Power of the Word to reach out to others in the hope of finding common ground where we can stand together to fight back against this wicked world. Thus, as time passes, I see the value of creating, checking in and updating a Personal BLOG for myself and whoever has the luxury time of being online, wants to come and stop by, visit for a time, then go onward out into cyberspace into the rest of connected reality. Definition: Blog is short for web log which is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author and it is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is blogging and someone who keeps a blog is a blogger. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Related Links ~~~ A Bloggers Code of Ethics http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php Global Voices Online http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/ Blog for America http://blogforamerica.com/ Digital Divide Network Blogs http://www.digitaldivide.net/blogs/ Create Your Own Blog Now http://www.blogger.com/start
Re: [DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05
Hi Peter 2 observations about your post on the necessity to meaningfully communicate and to avoid extended sermons when people aren't paying attention, and on the usefulness of blogs. Peter S. Lopez wrote: On Blogging and Other Stuff Hola All Fellow Cyber Cadets ~ I don't consider myself as a cadet, cyber or otherwise, and I doubt many here in the Digital Divide Network do. Cadet evokes rigid discipline, unconditional obediance to a hierarchy. Not quite the way DDN works. (...) it is how well we live in a qualitative life-sense; it is how noble, how just and how humane we have been towards others in the scales of eternal time that counts in the end. The rest is just inhaling and exhaling… any animal can do that! (...) Many online groups and chat rooms are akin to the insanity of the Tower of Babel wherein we speak endlessly to really no one but ourselves because no one reads, no one listens, no one responds. (...) Actually, the Tower of Babel was an extremely well coordinated and perfectly communicating international project aimed at the betterment of mankind, beyond just inhaling and exhaling like animals. The Tower of Babel might be a good symbol for DDN, actually - were it not that it got so successful that G-d felt He'd better put an end to it - and so *He* did, by messing up the Babel communication network big way. So better not wake His attention. He probably has programmed His version of Echelon to launch His weapons of mass destruction at any mention of plans to revive the Babel project. All the best, Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05
Claude Almansi wrote: I don't consider myself as a cadet, cyber or otherwise, and I doubt many here in the Digital Divide Network do. Cadet evokes rigid discipline, unconditional obediance to a hierarchy. Not quite the way DDN works. Hi Claude, I think this was intended as a play on the expression, Greetings, space cadets, which is in itself a reference to the old Space Cadet radio show. A somewhat obscure American cultural reference, in no way intended as connected with actual military cadets. -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] video blogging from Scotland
Hi everyone, I've been in Scotland for the last five days, getting ready to speak about online communities and various forms of blogging at the Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow. I've uploaded some videos to my blog, in case anyone is interested. Hopefully I'll be able to video blog and/or podcast from the conference tomorrow as well. http://www.andycarvin.com thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] guest blogging on Blog for America
Earlier this evening I was invited to post a blog entry about my Katrina blog on Blog for America http://www.blogforamerica.com. It's currently on their homepage; the permalink is here: http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/006823.html -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
RE: [DDN] Nonprofit Blogging: The Shape of Things to Come
A quick search for masschusetts library blog (without quotation marks) had some interesting results. See: http://tyngsboroughpubliclibrary.blogspot.com/ Are you including library in your definition of nonprofit? If so, you should be able to talk to a couple or three who can enrich your discussion. Karen G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:digitaldivide- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deborah Elizabeth Finn Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:43 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: [DDN] Nonprofit Blogging: The Shape of Things to Come (A version of this item, with live links, is available at http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/7/1005407.ht ml) Dear Colleagues, First, an apology...it's one of those predictable passages in a blogger's life...one starts blogging about blogging. Sorry about that. I'd been asked by the bloggers' group that meets on Thursday evenings at the Berkman Center for Internet Society to put together a little session about blogging for nonprofits. Fortunately, I was able to recruit two highly respected colleagues from the nonprofit sector, Beth Kanter and Brian Reich, to share their ideas on the topic. This is a Good Thing(tm), because my own opinion is that if you've read my blog or heard me chatting with fellow members of the Berkman bloggers' group then you're already familiar with the few insights that I have on this topic. At this point, there isn't much data from which I can draw conclusions. In fact, in my efforts to recruit presenters for this session, I haven't been able to find very many nonprofits in Massachusetts that maintain blogs, and I note that (in the blogosphere as a whole) the few nonprofit professionals who are active bloggers are also technology assistance providers. There just aren't a lot of nonprofit executive directors, field organizers, fundraisers, or direct service service providers who blog, unless they are already geeks. However, in the absence of empirical data, I can always resort to another research method - staring off into space for 20 or 30 minutes. On the basis of my findings, I will venture to make a prediction: The future will favor well-designed web sites that feature clusters of blogs by diverse authors who are focused on a coherent mission. Here are some examples of mission-based web sites that serve up a range of blogs to readers: -The Digital Divide Network: Knowledge to help everyone succeed in the digital age. -Global Voices Online: The world is talking. Are you listening? -Omidyar Network: We believe every individual has the power to make a difference. We exist for one single purpose: So that more and more people discover their own power to make good things happen. -WorldChanging: Models, Tools, and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future Although real simple syndication (also known as RSS) makes it possible for all of us to read blog content without surfing from one web site to another, I'm convinced that a web site with a strong focus that offers rich visual and verbal content will continue to draw web users. A cluster of blogs that offer compelling insights and new points of view can be a part of that strategy. Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Video Blogging in Four (relatively) Easy Steps
Hi everyone, Michael Verdi has set up a blog that outlines in four steps how to create a video blog using free online tools: http://freevlog.blogspot.com/ I haven't tried it myself, but the instructions seem very straightforward. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
