tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132963382012-01-04T03:38:55.942+13:00Various screencasts on how to do things onlineLeigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-12429292209694308932011-11-23T15:19:00.001+13:002011-11-23T15:19:38.111+13:00<div><p>Here I am, posting through the Blogger Android app. Curious to see how well it works, if it can handle video, photos, tags and whatever else</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-1242929220969430893?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-41585657305309169642011-02-11T11:16:00.002+13:002011-02-11T11:16:27.090+13:00<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/guRIgov2VgA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="240" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-4158565730530916964?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-30575354187313735712011-02-11T11:15:00.000+13:002011-02-11T11:15:26.500+13:00<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/guRIgp3ueQA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="240" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-3057535418731373571?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-88198107164652774942010-04-10T11:00:00.001+12:002010-04-10T11:00:27.384+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3484042&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3484042"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MoodleSnippetEmbedYoutubePlaylist796.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_3484042(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MoodleSnippetEmbedYoutubePlaylist796.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MoodleSnippetEmbedYoutubePlaylist796.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_3484042(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">This talk went a bit wrong. Firstly the browser was out of date, secondly I was caught out by an unexpected change to the custom player feature in Youtube since the interface upgrade.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8819810716465277494?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-63728261722917520332010-04-01T22:55:00.001+13:002010-04-01T22:55:09.379+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3447116&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3447116"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlineP3Feeds256.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3447116(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlineP3Feeds256.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlineP3Feeds256.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3447116(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">Everything you need to teach and learn online P3: Feeds. Using the free web based screen recorder Screenr.com, this 5 minute video explains feeds, how to find them, how to subscribe to them. Enriching your information intake, helping you find great things to teach and learn from.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-6372826172291752033?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-89131599380109424702010-03-29T19:05:00.001+13:002010-03-29T19:05:36.560+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3429741&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3429741"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-wikimediaCommonsOpenAcademiaWorkshop336.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429741(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-wikimediaCommonsOpenAcademiaWorkshop336.flv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-wikimediaCommonsOpenAcademiaWorkshop336.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429741(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description"><br />In <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_academia_in_practice">a workshop</a> at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8913159938010942470?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-90930588841947713642010-03-29T19:02:00.001+13:002010-03-29T19:02:52.386+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3429733&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3429733"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-wikiversityOpenAcademiaWorkshop825.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429733(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-wikiversityOpenAcademiaWorkshop825.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-wikiversityOpenAcademiaWorkshop825.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429733(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description"><br />In <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_academia_in_practice">a workshop</a> at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-9093058884194771364?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-19598648464046121532010-03-29T19:00:00.001+13:002010-03-29T19:00:44.330+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3429723&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3429723"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-copyrightOpenAcademiaWorkshop910.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429723(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-copyrightOpenAcademiaWorkshop910.flv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-copyrightOpenAcademiaWorkshop910.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429723(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description"><br />In <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_academia_in_practice">a workshop</a> at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-1959864846404612153?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-82433130105406349302010-03-29T18:53:00.001+13:002010-03-29T18:53:06.525+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3429700&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3429700"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-introductionOpenAcademiaWorkshop600.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429700(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-introductionOpenAcademiaWorkshop600.flv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-introductionOpenAcademiaWorkshop600.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429700(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description"><br />In <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_academia_in_practice">a workshop</a> at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8243313010540634930?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-80946885131980596582010-03-29T18:40:00.001+13:002010-03-29T18:40:36.109+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3429675&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3429675"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreativeCommonsSearch360.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429675(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreativeCommonsSearch360.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreativeCommonsSearch360.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3429675(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">In <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_academia_in_practice">a workshop</a> at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8094688513198059658?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-52111210429455365382010-03-28T13:20:00.001+13:002010-03-28T13:20:30.127+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3424917&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3424917"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlineP2Blogger284.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3424917(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlineP2Blogger284.flv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlineP2Blogger284.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3424917(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">Part 2 of a series of videos looking at everything you'd need to teach and learn online. This recording was made via mobile phone, live streamed to uStream - sorry for the quality, but I think it gives the idea. There are many very good screen recordings in Youtube on how to do different things with Blogger, so this is just an over view with a few comments along the way. I'm thinking to record another version of this, especially if I get specific questions or comments suggesting what I should also mention with regards to Blogger.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-5211121042945536538?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-54871795303104488462010-03-25T17:45:00.001+13:002010-03-25T17:45:50.011+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3411795&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3411795"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlinePart1Independenc734.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3411795(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlinePart1Independenc734.wmv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EverythingYouNeedToTeachAndLearnOnlinePart1Independenc734.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_3411795(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">First of a series of videos remaking the original post <a href="http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/2004/11/all-you-need-to-teach-online-is-here.html#comments">Everything you need to teach online</a>.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-5487179530310448846?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-77824470492656277042010-02-16T14:18:00.001+13:002010-02-16T14:18:05.211+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3242690&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3242690"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-SolvingYoutubesWebcamRecordProblem869.MP4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3242690(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-SolvingYoutubesWebcamRecordProblem869.MP4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-SolvingYoutubesWebcamRecordProblem869.MP4" onclick="play_blip_movie_3242690(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">Youtube's webcam record feature is clipping the end of the recording. Use uStream to record from your webcam, and forward that through to Youtube. That way you have two online copies for backup, as well as the MP4 to download from Youtube and reupload to Blip.tv through to Archive.org :) solid - and no software needed.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-7782447049265627704?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-16797144221219061942010-02-05T18:34:00.001+13:002010-02-05T18:34:07.290+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3197490&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3197490"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PopularInternetInTeachingAndResearch639.mp3" onclick="play_blip_movie_3197490(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PopularInternetInTeachingAndResearch639.mp3.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PopularInternetInTeachingAndResearch639.mp3" onclick="play_blip_movie_3197490(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">A presentation given to the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra, Dec 2009. (I forgot to record the talk on the day, so this is a recording made later). Links and references at http://delicious.com/leighblackall/uchealth</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-1679714422121906194?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-85658210890698638012010-02-05T17:18:00.001+13:002010-02-05T17:18:21.339+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=3197316&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_3197316"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ConnectingSharingDevelopingTheOpenPhD163.mp3" onclick="play_blip_movie_3197316(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ConnectingSharingDevelopingTheOpenPhD163.mp3.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ConnectingSharingDevelopingTheOpenPhD163.mp3" onclick="play_blip_movie_3197316(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">Audio recording to the presentation made at the University of Canberra's PhD induction day. 4 Feb 2010</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8565821089069863801?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-42200270423060775152009-10-20T12:35:00.001+13:002009-10-20T12:35:36.765+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2009070701"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=2760964&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_2760964"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MobileVideosYoutubeWebbasedEditingKaltura270.MP4" onclick="play_blip_movie_2760964(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MobileVideosYoutubeWebbasedEditingKaltura270.MP4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MobileVideosYoutubeWebbasedEditingKaltura270.MP4" onclick="play_blip_movie_2760964(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">How to email video clips from your phone to Youtube, then import the clips from Youtube to a Kaltura web based video editor</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-4220027042306077515?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-87681768154607988372009-04-29T06:15:00.001+12:002009-04-29T06:15:56.194+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2008010901"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=2054472&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_2054472"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AddingAnImageToMediaWikis124.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_2054472(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AddingAnImageToMediaWikis124.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AddingAnImageToMediaWikis124.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_2054472(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">Media wikis make life hard sometimes. When all the other publishing sites work wonders to lower the bar, Media wiki keeps it right up there for us. This screen recording will demonstrate how I load images into a wiki page, using Wikieducator as an example. I also take into consideration copyrights, making sure to use an image with Creative Commons Attribution license, and to give it proper attribution. Its a complex task actually, but gets very easy with practice.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8768176815460798837?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-52059288684041186572009-02-11T17:36:00.001+13:002009-02-11T17:36:35.196+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2008010901"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=1769238&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_1769238"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-WhatIsVlogging244.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_1769238(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-WhatIsVlogging244.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-WhatIsVlogging244.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_1769238(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description"><p>Greg Evans, editor of <a href="http://www.nz-interface.co.nz/" target="_blank">InterfaceNZ magazine</a> has asked me to write a regular column on video - starting with vlogging.</p><p>So what is vlogging? Well, I don&#39;t want to limit this to text - so how about we start by watching my little video I just made: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTj1c-ZDPO0" target="_blank">What is Vlogging</a>.</p><p>You can probably tell by the quality of my video that it took me all of 15 minutes to make.. including recording, compressing and uploading. Ironically it will take me about an hour to prepare the supporting text!</p><p>And that&#39;s the beauty of Internet video these days. Thanks to services like Youtube and many others, you and I and everyone are able to publish video at next to no cost, in hardly any time, and with very little technical ability. That&#39;s a media revolution right there! With so many of us taking advantage of this opportunity, there is A LOT of video out there. With so much video, the chances of each of us finding something that is interesting, useful or unique becomes very likely, so we are now a lot more ready to forget about questions of quality because we have rediscovered what it means for a video to be interesting, useful or unique. That&#39;s another revolution right there! We&#39;ve learned to accept that its the content of the video that matters, regardless of the image quality and cost of production. Even TV news is less interested in &#34;broadcast quality&#34; images, and seem quite happy using footage from Youtube at 320x240 compressed and at 15 frames per second. So the barrier of entry is now low on all fronts - access, cost and expectations.</p><p>If you want more to think about on this, I&#39;d highly recommend Michael Wesch&#39;s presentation to the Library of Congress: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU" target="_blank">An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube</a></p><p>Ok, what about vlogging?</p><p>Vlogging combines the words video and blogging. Regular readers of Interface should by now know what a blog is, but in case you&#39;re new to it - here&#39;s my attempt to explain a big thing: A blog is a website that is regularly updated with new content by the same author/s. Each new addition of content is called a blog-post or post and appears at the top with old content moving down the blog. A blog provides readers with subscription features that alert them when posts are added. Most blogs today include options for readers to add comments as a way of encouraging discussion and feedback with the blog author/s. Many journalists and social commentators use blogs, as do some teachers and politicians. </p><p>A video-blog or vlog then, is simply a blog that uses video as its primary media in each post. </p><p>I wonder if you can now guess what an audio-blog is? What about a moblog? The first 10 to send their correct answers in to Greg the Interface editor, will win a years subscription of Interface... I just made that last bit up.</p><p>Ok, so now you know what a vlog is, and maybe some of you want to set one up. Well, that&#39;s easy and wont cost you a cent! (Except for the woefully expensive monthly Internet charges in NZ). </p><p>First step is to create an account on Youtube. It doesn&#39;t have to be Youtube, there are other video publishing services, but let&#39;s keep it simple. </p><p>Your next step is to post your first video to your Youtube account. There are 3 ways:</p><ol><li>Upload a video you have from your computer </li><li>Record a video directly onto Youtube by way of your webcam</li><li>Record a video with your mobile phone and send it to your Youtube account via its own email address.</li></ol><p>Youtube has great <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/YouTubeHelp" target="_blank">help videos</a> for learning how to do any of these things, and more.</p><p>That&#39;s it! You have created your first post to your Youtube vlog. Other people can access your vlog by going to <a href="http://youtube.com/user/YOURUSERNAME" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/user/YOURUSERNAME</a></p><p>Some people take vlogging further by setting up a blog on a service like Blogger, and then either linking their Youtube video into their blog, or uploading a video directly into their blog with Blogger&#39;s video upload features.</p><p>If you want people to be able to download your videos so they can play them off the Internet, or so you can turn your vlog into a podcast, then you&#39;ll have to use a different service than Youtube. I use Blip.tv. It offers you all the features of Youtube (less the popularity) plus some significant extras, such as file download, and cross posting your video to other sites like the <a href="http://archive.org/" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>.</p><p>So there you have it. Take the time to watch the help videos. Its a great way to learn. If you want to find out all there is to know about vlogging, then the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_blogging" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> article is a great place to start.</p>See you next issue with another how-to on DIY video. </div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-5205928868404118657?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-13393055669612278942008-12-10T10:42:00.001+13:002008-12-10T10:42:36.278+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2008010901"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=1557925&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_1557925"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PrintingBooksFromWikibooks567.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_1557925(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PrintingBooksFromWikibooks567.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PrintingBooksFromWikibooks567.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_1557925(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description">Screen recording on how to generate a PDF version of a wikibook, ready for printing.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-1339305566961227894?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-23885099382320084852008-06-10T12:06:00.001+12:002008-06-10T12:06:34.351+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2008010901"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=984636&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script> <div id="blip_movie_content_984636"> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-BliptvRSSIntoWikieducator940.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_984636(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-BliptvRSSIntoWikieducator940.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a> <br /> <a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-BliptvRSSIntoWikieducator940.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_984636(); return false;">Click to Play</a> </div> </center><div class="blip_description"><p>My love of Blip just got obsessive. The RSS feeds that Blip provide with enclosures, displays beautifully on Wikieducator - helping that particular MediaWiki to come alive. Note: MediaWikis will need to have the RSS extension included - speak to the adminstrator.</p><p>This screenrecording goes through the steps involved in embedding a series of videos from Blip into Wikieducator through RSS. Lovely! </p><p></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-2388509938232008485?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-61918200070434493822007-08-13T16:10:00.005+12:002009-09-11T08:18:11.648+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007072801"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=337353&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv&amp;player_width=&amp;player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_337353"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-HowIDoAScreencast555.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_337353(); return false;"><img alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-HowIDoAScreencast555.mp4.jpg" title="Click to play" border="0" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-HowIDoAScreencast555.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_337353(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">From video to print: <a href="http://www.wikieducator.org/Creating_a_screen_recording">http://www.wikieducator.org/Creating_a_screen_recording</a><br /><br /><h2><span class="mw-headline">Approach</span></h2> <ol><li>To create a video recording of a computer screen and application </li><li>To compress the video and upload it to popular video publishing services </li><li>To transcribe the audio in the video to text on a wiki </li><li>To create a series of still images from that video and combine them with text to create a print version </li></ol> <a name="How_to"></a><h2><span class="mw-headline">How to</span></h2> <p>A video that overviews this particular method of screencast can be found at the following links: </p> <ul><li> Blip: <a href="http://blip.tv/file/332594" class="external free" title="http://blip.tv/file/332594" rel="nofollow">http://blip.tv/file/332594</a> </li><li> Google: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-275675818200866523" class="external free" title="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-275675818200866523" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-275675818200866523</a> </li><li> Youtube: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=nRTzC_OBev8" class="external free" title="http://youtube.com/watch?v=nRTzC_OBev8" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=nRTzC_OBev8</a> </li></ul> <p>And still images for these steps are yet to be added to the Wiki page but are here for now: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/archives/date-posted/2007/08/08/" class="external free" title="http://flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/sets/72157601298720211/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/archives/date-posted/2007/08/08/</a> </p> <ol><li> Download <a href="http://camstudio.org/" class="external text" title="http://camstudio.org" rel="nofollow">Camstudio</a> (Free and open source for Windows) </li><li> Download <a href="http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm" class="external text" title="http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm" rel="nofollow">ScreenHunter free</a> (freeware) </li><li> Download <a href="http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/download.php" class="external text" title="http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/download.php" rel="nofollow">Videora iPod converter</a> (freeware) </li><li> Download <a href="http://www.pqdvd.com/dvd-to-ipod-video-converter.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.pqdvd.com/dvd-to-ipod-video-converter.htm" rel="nofollow">iPod Video Converter</a> (shareware) </li><li> Search "camstudio" on youtube and find and watch a demo on using Camstudio </li><li> Search "screenhunter" on youtube or <a href="http://screencasting.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://screencasting.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Screencasting blog</a> and find and watch demo on using ScreenHunter. </li><li> Search "videora" on youtube and find and watch a demo on how to use Videora iPod converter </li><li> Create a screen recording using Camstudio </li><li> Create a series of still images from the video using ScreenHunter </li><li> Compress the video using Videora iPod converter </li><li> Create an account with Youtube, Blip.tv and Google video </li><li> Upload the compressed video using <a href="http://heyspread.com/" class="external text" title="http://heyspread.com/" rel="nofollow">HeySpreadit! </a>Update. Heyspread now charges a fee. Use TubeMogul.com</li><li> Upload the still images to Wikieducator and position the images in a new wikipage named according to your screenrecording </li><li> Transcribe the audio in the video to text on the wikipage and include a link to the video on Youtube. </li></ol><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-6191820007043449382?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-2348928880828034262007-07-18T17:18:00.001+12:002007-07-18T17:18:34.813+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007062101"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=312161&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_312161"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingGoogleMaps796.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_312161(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingGoogleMaps796.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingGoogleMaps796.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_312161(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">A look at Google Maps, finding a street location, viewing in hybrid, zooming in and positioning, getting directions, copying the link.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-234892888082803426?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-61933524346478445682007-07-18T17:17:00.001+12:002007-07-18T17:17:22.443+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007062101"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=312177&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_312177"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikimapia350.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_312177(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikimapia350.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikimapia350.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_312177(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">A quick look at the features of Wikimapia</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-6193352434647844568?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-31927933987043804792007-06-15T10:07:00.001+12:002007-06-15T10:07:19.903+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=271134&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_271134"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlexibleLearningDevelopment342.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_271134(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlexibleLearningDevelopment342.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlexibleLearningDevelopment342.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_271134(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Here is a video that explains a little process we have in place here at Otago Polytechnic for supporting ideas for the development of flexible learning opportuinities in our courses.<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-3192793398704380479?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-21545167721168815372007-06-05T12:57:00.001+12:002007-06-05T12:57:42.840+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=257836&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_257836"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikistructure512.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_257836(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikistructure512.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikistructure512.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_257836(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Here's a first attempt to show the beginnings of the wiki structure in action through 2 developments we have going here. Based on <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/501731306/in/set-72157600223371021/">this diagram</a> and sample pages from the <a href="http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic">Otago Polytechnic projects</a>.<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-2154516772116881537?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-71443885504770675202007-06-01T13:13:00.001+12:002007-06-01T13:13:04.967+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=253665&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_253665"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EmbedMultiMediaIntoBlogs629.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_253665(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EmbedMultiMediaIntoBlogs629.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-EmbedMultiMediaIntoBlogs629.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_253665(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">How to embed youtube and slide share into blogger and wordpress blogs</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-7144388550477067520?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-73707618355208750892007-05-08T12:23:00.001+12:002007-05-08T12:23:35.245+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=226578&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_226578"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-RenamingDeliciousTags123.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_226578(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-RenamingDeliciousTags123.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-RenamingDeliciousTags123.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_226578(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">A quick demo on how to rename tags in del.icio.us and an idea to organised collaborative tagging projects.<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-7370761835520875089?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-2126614089302409122007-04-14T07:50:00.001+12:002007-04-14T07:50:54.629+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=202754&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_202754"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-SamualKlienOLPC790.MOV" onclick="play_blip_movie_202754(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-SamualKlienOLPC790.MOV.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-SamualKlienOLPC790.MOV" onclick="play_blip_movie_202754(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-212661408930240912?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-36869594229285884672007-04-04T15:31:00.001+12:002007-04-04T15:31:07.105+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=193275&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_193275"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingGoogleGroups789.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_193275(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingGoogleGroups789.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingGoogleGroups789.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_193275(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">A screen recording looking at the email list service called Google Groups<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-3686959422928588467?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-82583257062083163632007-03-21T16:13:00.001+12:002007-03-21T16:13:37.377+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=179725&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_179725"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-usingRSS106.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_179725(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-usingRSS106.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-usingRSS106.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_179725(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">prompted by Peter Allen at the TALO email list, and Teemu Leinonen at FlossePosse blog<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-8258325706208316363?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-58689433219266564452007-03-15T17:48:00.001+13:002007-03-15T17:48:13.284+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=174237&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_174237"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AvalancheSafety878.MP4" onclick="play_blip_movie_174237(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AvalancheSafety878.MP4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AvalancheSafety878.MP4" onclick="play_blip_movie_174237(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">An outline of the Avalanche Safety courses on offer at Otago Polytechnic. Music by Teru: http://ccmixter.org/media/files/teru/8892</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-5868943321926656445?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1170197534132854912007-01-31T11:52:00.000+13:002007-01-31T11:52:14.203+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=144506&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_144506"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreatingBannersForSlidePresentations567.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_144506(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreatingBannersForSlidePresentations567.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreatingBannersForSlidePresentations567.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_144506(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">cropping a creative commons image and placing it as a banner in a presentation slide.</div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-117019753413285491?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1170111000780032982007-01-30T11:50:00.000+13:002007-01-30T11:50:00.816+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=143915&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_143915"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-TroubleUploadingToArchiveorg730.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_143915(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-TroubleUploadingToArchiveorg730.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-TroubleUploadingToArchiveorg730.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_143915(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"><p>I really want to be able to use Archive.org</p><p>I&#39;d like a page in Archive for the subjects we teach, with all the media we use to teach that subject on it. A bit like the net music label pages - an album of media for a particular topic.</p><p>But there is not yet a simple upload process. Ourmedia almost gives us that simple upload process, but we can&#39;t seem to get files through.. anyway, I would prefer to have our media listed straight on Archive.</p><p>This is a screenrecording of my troubles. </p></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-117011100078003298?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1170108871314333492007-01-30T11:14:00.000+13:002007-01-30T11:14:31.336+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=143879&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_143879"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AddingTeamMembersToABloggerBlog287.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_143879(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AddingTeamMembersToABloggerBlog287.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AddingTeamMembersToABloggerBlog287.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_143879(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-117010887131433349?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1169175860316196722007-01-19T16:04:00.000+13:002007-01-19T16:04:20.326+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=138035&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_138035"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlashMotionTweenAndAButton991.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_138035(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlashMotionTweenAndAButton991.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlashMotionTweenAndAButton991.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_138035(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116917586031619672?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1169175749154881912007-01-19T16:02:00.000+13:002007-01-19T16:02:29.250+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=138034&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_138034"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlashJpegImageToAVectorGraphic686.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_138034(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlashJpegImageToAVectorGraphic686.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FlashJpegImageToAVectorGraphic686.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_138034(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116917574915488191?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1169089622264060582007-01-18T16:07:00.000+13:002007-01-18T16:07:02.363+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=137505&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_137505"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ScribusFreeAndOpenSourceDeskTopPublisher431.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_137505(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ScribusFreeAndOpenSourceDeskTopPublisher431.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ScribusFreeAndOpenSourceDeskTopPublisher431.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_137505(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116908962226406058?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1166393303526205332006-12-18T11:08:00.000+13:002006-12-18T11:08:24.403+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=121106&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_121106"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FreedomAndFlexibilityWithWeb2Data734.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_121106(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FreedomAndFlexibilityWithWeb2Data734.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-FreedomAndFlexibilityWithWeb2Data734.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_121106(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">a look at how to pull a heap of data out of a Blogger blog and into a wordpress blog. Same concept applied to pulling from the Bloglines reader and into the Google reader<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116639330352620533?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1165980605905466902006-12-13T16:30:00.000+13:002006-12-13T16:30:06.010+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=118805&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_118805"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-LeroyAndSeanInSecondLife296.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_118805(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-LeroyAndSeanInSecondLife296.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-LeroyAndSeanInSecondLife296.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_118805(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">A screenrecording of me in there mucking up in Second Life with Sean<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116598060590546690?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1164937917472957952006-12-01T14:51:00.000+13:002006-12-01T16:33:21.543+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=112417&amp;source=3&autoplay=true&amp;amp;file_type=flv&player_width=&amp;player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_112417"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikiversity663.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_112417(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikiversity663.mp4.jpg" title="Click To Play" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikiversity663.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_112417(); return false;">Click To Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Creating a course page in wikiversity<br /></div><br /><br /><br />1. Starting with your preferred basis for learning outcomes - such as National Learning Outcomes and Units of Competency - I like to use these standards as a starting point for creatinga Wikiversity page. I am starting with Peter Shanks progam which draws data from the Australian National Training Information Service, data out of their PDFs and RTF documents and representing it in more useful HTML and even<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/654748/ScreenHunter_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/149954/ScreenHunter_001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />2. After locating the Unit Standard description, or the learning outcomes... I now go to Wikiversity to copy them across.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/186377/ScreenHunter_007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/281417/ScreenHunter_007.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />3. I did a search for the topic in Wikiversity and no entry close enough turned up. So I click the link asking if I would like to create this page.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/614814/ScreenHunter_009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/64666/ScreenHunter_009.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>4. Pasting what I have copied, one title at a time. Being sure to place single equals around main titles (=main title=) and double equals around subtitles (==subtitle==) and so on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/436828/ScreenHunter_013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/639103/ScreenHunter_013.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />5. This has created now a contents table that links to the titles and subtitles in the page. Once the structure is in place - based on the Unit standard or agreed learning outcomes, its now a matter of entering content - which could be done with students during study times, or before the class or course starts.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/637332/ScreenHunter_014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/29234/ScreenHunter_014.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116493791747295795?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1164932067760242132006-12-01T13:14:00.000+13:002006-12-01T16:34:16.413+13:00<script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=112377&amp;source=3&autoplay=true&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;file_type=flv&player_width=&amp;player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_112377"><br /><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikiversity568.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_112377(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikiversity568.mp4.jpg" title="Click to Play" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikiversity568.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_112377(); return false;">Video - Click to Play</a></div> <div class="blip_description">Creating a Wikiversity account and editing your profile<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Text and image version for print below:</span><br /><br />1. Go to wikiversity.org and click your prefered language. In this example we use English.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/749949/ScreenHunter_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/483070/ScreenHunter_001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />2. In the top right of the site you will see a link to login or create and account. Click that link<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/909167/ScreenHunter_003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/670347/ScreenHunter_003.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />4. If you have already created an account you can login here. If not then click the "create an account" link just about the login fields.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/544828/ScreenHunter_004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/990571/ScreenHunter_004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />5. When creating a new account, be sure to answer the math problem as this helps Wikiversity determin that you are not a program designed to automatically create accounts for advertising purposes etc. Then proceed through the next fields for user name and password. Email is optional.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/485487/ScreenHunter_005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/660714/ScreenHunter_005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />6. Depending on your browser, you will be asked if you would like to have your password remembered. It is generally best practice to say no to this question as there are programs designed to retrieve saved passwords from other peoples computers. This is especially the case for Internet Explorer uses.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/692947/ScreenHunter_006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/366626/ScreenHunter_006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />7. Now that you are logged in, the top right of the site has links to your account settings. Click the link that is your user name.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/999697/ScreenHunter_008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/582544/ScreenHunter_008.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />9. This is where you add your details to create a profile for yourself. Click edit to add details.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/268578/ScreenHunter_009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/531719/ScreenHunter_009.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />10. Type in your details. Add single equal signs either side of words you want for main headings (=heading=) , double equal signs either side of words that you want to be sub headings (==subheading==). Single square bracketts make hyper links with the link first, then a space, then the words you wish to hypertext [http://link.com hypertext]. When finsihed, click save below the edit box<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/547002/ScreenHunter_010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/359256/ScreenHunter_010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />11. Note that the saved version now has your headings and subheading listed in a content box. Those content items go to anchored headings throughout the rest of the page.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/230574/ScreenHunter_011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/902111/ScreenHunter_011.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />In the next screencast I will show how to add an image to wikiversity pages.<br /><center> </center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116493206776024213?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1164537034920423682006-11-26T22:58:00.000+13:002006-11-26T23:38:16.430+13:00<!-- Creative Commons License -->For a while now I've been thinking to return to the good old days of screencasting - plain old screen grabs with text. Easy to follow along to (so long as the person creating the screencast is thorough) and very portable when printed. Video is quick and easy for the creator, and handy for people who just want to get the scope of something, but when detailed step by step stuff is required (say, for complete newbies) then I think the good old screen grab is needed.<br /><br />A long time ago <a href="http://thebegavalley.com/vivianevans.0.html">Vivian Evans</a> pointed me to <a href="http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm">ScreenHunter Free for Windows</a>. I never really got into it at the time, I think I was searching for a free video screen recorder, but in my born again screengrab thinking a went and fetched it this time and boy is it light and fast. It is a free and simple little application that will initiate when the key of your choice is pressed. It will either capture the screen, an active window or a region of your choosing, then automatically turn it into either a JPG, GIFF, or BMP image file and save it where you set it to save. It makes for rapid screengrabbing compared to having to paste into an image editor.<br /><br />Here's a demo:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/646919/ScreenHunter_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/22504/ScreenHunter_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Go to the website: http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm and choose the Free option.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/600980/ScreenHunter_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/35664/ScreenHunter_2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Find the little blue button for Downloading<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/331076/ScreenHunter_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/287768/ScreenHunter_3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Fill in your details (just an email address will do) and click the "join and download" button.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/873410/ScreenHunter_5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/841968/ScreenHunter_5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br />From the list of options find the option ScreenHunter 4.0 Free and click the link ending in .exe This will set your computer to download an .exe file which is generally a file for installing software. Sometimes virus software comes as exe, which is why your computer will probably ask you if you are sure you want to open the downloaded file and install the program. Just say yes and you will get a new window which is the start of the installation process.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/773444/ScreenHunter_4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/279139/ScreenHunter_4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Go through the easy steps to install ScreenHunter.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/358241/ScreenHunter_6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/117622/ScreenHunter_6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />After the installation process is finished (and it is a very quick process so don't blink) you will see a window with three tabs across the top. Tab one is displaying and it is called "From". In this tab are option for you to set such as which key would you like to use when wanting to take a picture of your screen and what region of the screen would you like to picture.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/1600/654849/ScreenHunter_7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5199/616/400/263851/ScreenHunter_7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The "To" tab has settings for what type of image file you would like the picture to be saved as. I have chosen JPG which is a very common file type for pictures - especially photos. The "To" tab also has the setting for which folder you would like to send your screengrabs to. I have mine set to go to the desktop.<br /><br />Once you have set up ScreenHunter, press the key you designated as the photo button and click OK when the little window pops up to confirm.<br /><br />There! quick as a flash you have a series of images taken from the computer screen.<br /><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116453703492042368?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1163645030062195072006-11-16T15:43:00.000+13:002006-11-16T15:43:50.200+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=105353&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_105353"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Picasa355.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_105353(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Picasa355.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Picasa355.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_105353(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">I quick demo of the starting features of Picasa2<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116364503006219507?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1163636955512379212006-11-16T13:29:00.000+13:002006-11-16T13:29:15.586+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=105353&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_105353"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Picasa355.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_105353(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Picasa355.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Picasa355.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_105353(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">I quick demo of the starting features of Picasa2<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116363695551237921?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1163635303809020352006-11-16T13:01:00.000+13:002006-11-16T13:01:43.860+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66391&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66391"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-sourcingCreativeCommonsPictures252.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_66391(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-sourcingCreativeCommonsPictures252.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-sourcingCreativeCommonsPictures252.mp4" onclick="play_blip_movie_66391(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">A screencast on how to use Flickr to source Creative Commons pictures<br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116363530380902035?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1163585375393671632006-11-15T23:08:00.000+13:002006-11-15T23:09:35.413+13:00<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_0yfKtPvNw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_0yfKtPvNw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />Another free video encoder. It is amazing how many formats SuperC can encode to and from. A must have on your PC, ready for you-never-know-when.<br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116358537539367163?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1161331015839680822006-10-20T20:50:00.000+13:002006-10-20T20:56:55.890+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=92654&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_92654"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-TeachingIsDeadLongLiveLearningFullAudio543.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_92654(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-TeachingIsDeadLongLiveLearningFullAudio543.wmv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-TeachingIsDeadLongLiveLearningFullAudio543.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_92654(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Slides with full audio recorded from global summit<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116133101583968082?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1160454692326436452006-10-10T17:25:00.000+13:002006-10-10T17:31:32.383+13:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=88275&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_88275"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-DigitalNetworkLiteracy359.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_88275(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-DigitalNetworkLiteracy359.wmv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-DigitalNetworkLiteracy359.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_88275(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"><a xhref="http://flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/sets/72157594320878246/">Original slides in flickr</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-116045469232643645?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1158798961226458092006-09-21T12:30:00.000+12:002006-09-21T12:36:01.290+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=80186&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_80186"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MobilEdMeetsTheKitchen462.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_80186(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MobilEdMeetsTheKitchen462.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MobilEdMeetsTheKitchen462.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_80186(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Tony Heptinstall and Leigh Blackall interprit MobilEd<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115879896122645809?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1157615138954519752006-09-07T19:40:00.000+12:002006-09-07T19:45:39.033+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=73991&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_73991"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ednamlearning444.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_73991(); return false;"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ednamlearning444.wmv.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-ednamlearning444.wmv" onclick="play_blip_movie_73991(); return false;">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description"><p>a movie of images from the image stack posted to http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ednamlearning/</p><p>for the EdNA mLearning forum&#160;</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115761513895451975?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156217723627315182006-08-22T15:30:00.000+12:002006-08-22T15:35:23.633+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66866&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66866"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66866();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingBloglinesToSubscribeToPodcastsAndWebfeeds172.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66866();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Webfeeds are the plumbing that makes the Internet flow in my view. Here is a brief demo of how to set up and use Bloglines to tap into that flow.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115621772362731518?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156199114057207732006-08-22T10:20:00.000+12:002006-08-22T10:25:14.096+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66785&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66785"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66785();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-BlipTV710.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66785();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">An overview of BlipTV and why it is so Web2.1<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115619911405720773?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156151111193752682006-08-21T21:00:00.000+12:002006-08-21T21:05:11.233+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66465&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66465"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66465();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-CreatingAnImageStackWithGIMP887.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66465();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">The free and open source alternative to Photoshop is GIMP. I'm quite liking GIMP these days. Give it time, flush that Adobe hole in your pocket out of your system, and GIMP comes through with the goods. Here, I am using GIMP to create a simple image stack with layers. I use image stacks for slide show type resources. <br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115615111119375268?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156135511933733962006-08-21T16:40:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:45:11.940+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66415&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66415"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66415();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-PBWiki105.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66415();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">I don't use peanut butter wiki actually. I prefer wikispaces.com or a mediawiki like Wikipedia - but some people like PB<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613551193373396?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156134612470749712006-08-21T16:25:00.001+12:002007-05-11T16:48:22.046+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66409&amp;source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66409"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66409();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-VideoraIPodConvertor216.mp4.jpg" title="Click to Play" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66409();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">How to use Videora to convert videos to the MPEG4 format ready for playback online or in a portable player like the iPod Movie<br /><br />http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/ = the download page<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613461247074971?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156134611183374352006-08-21T16:25:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:30:11.183+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66410&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66410"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66410();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Wikipedia674.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66410();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Wikipedia is the be all and end all!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613461118337435?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156134324605422742006-08-21T16:20:00.001+12:002006-08-21T16:25:24.613+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66407&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66407"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66407();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-AudacityAndLAME993.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66407();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">The free and open source audio recorder and editor Audacity needs a little plugin before it can export files to MP3. Its a one of thing to do - but for those not used to installing software and plugins, it can be a bit tricky.. here's how.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613432460542274?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156134319779474632006-08-21T16:20:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:25:19.786+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66411&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66411"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66411();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-Odeo760.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66411();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Odeo was a pretty cool web service where you could record audio to, and upload audio to - giving you a URL for audio blogging or podcasting. Lately though they've started adding ads in front of your audio :( if only all services could be like Blip!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613431977947463?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156134010614288682006-08-21T16:15:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:20:10.616+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66402&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66402"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66402();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-JoeAndLeighOnUnyte595.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66402();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Unyte is a little plugin for Skype that enables users to look at each other's screen. Known as application sharing it is a great way to communicate online.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613401061428868?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156133411110876072006-08-21T16:05:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:10:11.110+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66404&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66404"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66404();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-MakingHyperLinks106.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66404();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Making a hyperlink using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613341111087607?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1156132812413648102006-08-21T15:55:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:00:12.453+12:00<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=66398&source=3&autoplay=true"></script><div id="blip_movie_content_66398"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66398();"><img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/LeighBlackall-UsingCanstudio402.mp4.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /></a><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play_blip_movie_66398();">Click to Play</a></div> </center><div class="blip_description">Camstudio is a free and open source screenrecorder for Windows. I hope they bring one out for Linux soon. This is a demo of how to set up your Camstudio to record a region of the screen and to track your mouse. This is important if you are going to compress your video - rendering a full screen recording useless.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115613281241364810?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1155967344539955062006-08-19T18:01:00.000+12:002006-08-19T18:02:24.553+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License --><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LC6l6CjIK4g"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LC6l6CjIK4g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115596734453995506?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1145002306370398482006-04-14T20:11:00.000+12:002006-04-14T20:11:46.383+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License --> A quick look at PBwiki<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HxB5JGQL0sE"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HxB5JGQL0sE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-114500230637039848?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1144994978067822312006-04-14T18:04:00.000+12:002006-04-14T18:09:38.070+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License --> A quick look at Del.icio.us<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eeXRKf7bwmU"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eeXRKf7bwmU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-114499497806782231?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1144994609600294612006-04-14T18:00:00.000+12:002006-04-14T18:03:29.603+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License --> A quick look at logging in to Black Board courses at Otago Polytechnic<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vGsCMZnSvno"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vGsCMZnSvno" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-114499460960029461?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1144994274215885922006-04-14T17:56:00.000+12:002006-04-14T17:57:54.216+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License --> Quick demo of making an announcement in Black Board<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jy0x9tc8SSU"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jy0x9tc8SSU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-114499427421588592?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1144993923825593022006-04-14T17:18:00.000+12:002006-04-14T17:52:03.856+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License -->A quick look at two ways to add pictures to your blog using blogger. After you've finished here, <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=QLo%204355l6QE">check out this screencast about Flickr</a>.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b27653-fVlE"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b27653-fVlE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-114499392382559302?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1144739442836233872006-04-11T19:10:00.000+12:002006-04-11T19:10:42.850+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License -->A quick look at how to use web feeds, specifically looking at using Bloglines to subscribe to a Blog feed and a Del.icio.us tag feed.<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k_LiMiIgsuc"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k_LiMiIgsuc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-114473944283623387?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1129073284909530472005-10-12T11:18:00.000+13:002005-10-22T22:18:26.703+13:00<a href="http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/default.asp"><img src="http://www.techsmith.com/images/camtasiastudio/boxshots/120box.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Some of you may have noticed that I don't use a screen recorder. I prefer to create PDFs and MP3s for my screen recordings because it gives my readers and listeners more flexibility. They can print the PDF and use it along side trying to work the software, or they can read through it on the bus. Same with the audio. I have tried screen recorders but am yet to find one even close to what I want. I have used <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx">Windows Media Encoder 9</a> - its free but limited in output formats, and quite complicated to use. I have tried <a href="http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/autoscreenrecorder.htm">Auto Screen Recorder</a> which is also free but has no audio recorder. Now I'm trying <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/default.asp">Camtasia</a>...<br /><br />Betsy Webber from <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/">Techsmith</a>, authors of the screenrecording software Camtasia dropped me a line last week, asking me to try out Camtasia and offer some feedback. I had tried Camtasia a couple of years ago so I offered these initial thoughts before downloading it again and giving it another belt.<br /><br /><blockquote>The ultimate screen recorder would:<br /> <ul> <li>Record screen and audio recordings to open video formats such as Mpeg and swf</li> <li>Export key still frames from the screen recording to Jpeg, editable to PDF</li> <li>Export audio to MP3, oggVorbis, and WAV</li> <li>Allow for live and collaborative online screen/audio demonstrations</li> <li>Be free and open source!! ;)</li> </ul> </blockquote><br /><br />Since those initial ideas, I've had a quick go of Camtasia and had some more ideas on what Techsmith could do to make it cook! But first of all some initial comment on the recorder as it is at the moment.<br /><br />The download was nice and small, and the install went on without a hitch. I started using it straight away without having to read any instructions which is always good, but may have something to do with my experience, so I still think it could be made a whole lot simpler. I have a few ideas on that later. One thing that caught me out in my first try was missing the record audio button, and therefore getting through a lengthy recording with no audio! The default should be to record audio with the option button being to not record it... I was really impressed with the export file wizard, and the excellent variety of formats to choose from for exporting. My initial suggestion still stands though - the one about a Jpeg (or perhaps the Gif would do it) that can be exported into an editable PDF.<br /><br />So, there are my initial impressions of Camtasia. I didn't do any editing of the recording, which I will talk about below, in my further suggestions. Camtasia still needs to be made much simpler, with the options and settings more in the background. Less is more so to speak.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Suggestions.</span><br />The criteria I have for recommending software to teachers is this: "It has to be free, easy, and web based". Camtasia is not free, is almost easy (but not easy enough), and is not web based.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FREE</span>: Camtasia (or a lighter version of it) needs to be free so that as many people can use it as possible. Its no good if a teacher can afford to buy and use it, but her students can't.. etc. It also needs to be free (or a lighter version of it) to curb the community acceptance of pirated software.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">EASY</span>: I don't know why, when Camtasia sparks up, it needs to open up in its edit or studio mode. I think it would be much nicer if all that opened initially was a small bar with big buttons for record (F9), pause (F9), stop (F10) and options. That's all. Under options of course are the various settings. Audio is recorded as a default, as is full screen. These settings, and all others can be changed by clicking options.<br />When stop is selected the option to export or edit should be offered. Exporting bring up the wonderful wizard, editing brings up the studio.<br />generally I and many other teachers are too time starved and demotivated to want to edit and glossy up a screencast. So editing would be best left as a final option not a first.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WEB BASED</span>: Here's the kicker! Here's where I think Camtasia could solve a whole bunch of problems for themselves and their customers, and make Camtasia the killer screen recording application.<br />Camtasia should set up a server and capture people's screens and audio for them, host them and serve them in multiple formats via URLs and licensed to Creative Commons. Camtasia would quickly become a primary source for screenrecordings, and vast numbers of people on Macs, Windows, Linux and languages could join in. It would be the Flickr for the screenrecording world. If hosting and recording was too difficult, then I'm sure Google Video or OurMedia would be interested in a project partnership.<br />I wonder if Camtasia were to look into Mozilla's open source code for Firefox, whether they could even achieve this web based versioning for the screen recorder through the FireFox Browser!<br />Camtasia could offer the web based recorder as a free and open version of Camtasia. Those who want the option to record, edit, host and serve for themselves would buy the full version. Those on web based only get a free web based recording, but no editing.<br />Of course, people using the web based recorder would need broadband, but access to broadband is improving.<br /><br />If Camtasia did this, I would sing for years!<br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-112907328490953047?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1128572082974034952005-10-06T17:00:00.000+13:002005-10-06T17:14:42.983+13:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5199/616/1600/screencasting-talkingpictur.jpg"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5199/616/400/screencasting-talkingpictur.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />For my <a href="http://bmflash.blogspot.com">animation class</a>.<br /><br />Some more fun with Flash, but this time working with photos to create animation.<br /><br />In this demonstration you will see me use GIMP and Flash to produce a talking picture of the Blue Mountains IT section head teacher, my boss Colin Tyrell!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Talking_Pictures/talkingpictures.mp3">Audio - 1.5Meg</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Screencasting__Talking_Pictures/talkingpictures.pdf">Print out - 1Meg</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-112857208297403495?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1155542779539770932005-08-14T20:03:00.000+12:002006-08-21T16:06:33.083+12:00<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" id="calculations" align="middle" height="240" width="320"><br /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.geocities.com/flexiblelearningpractice/calculations.swf"><br /><param name="quality" value="high"><br /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"><br /><embed src="http://www.geocities.com/flexiblelearningpractice/calculations.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="calculations" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="240" width="320"><br /></object><br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-115554277953977093?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1123846833892836582005-08-12T23:33:00.000+12:002005-08-12T23:40:33.900+12:00<!-- Creative Commons License --><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5199/616/320/16.jpg" /><br /><br />I've started teaching a small group up here in sequential art and animation.<br />We decided that knowing how to import photos into Flash would be useful, as well as basic drawing and animation.<br />So I knocked up this screencast to support next Monday night's class. It goes through the steps of importing a photo, using the drawing tools to trace the photo image, adding colour to the line drawing, and creating a basic animation on top of the line drawing.<br /><br />So grabe the PDF and the MP3 here that will introduce you to this process in Flash. (Right click the next two links and save them to your folder).<br /><ol> <li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Photos_and_drawing_in_Flash/photosanddrawing.pdf">Photos and drawing in Flash demonstration for print - 540KB PDF</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Photos_and_drawing_in_Flash_1/photosanddrawing.mp3">Photos and drawing in Flash demonstration for audio - 3.3 Meg MP3</a></li> </ol><br /><br /><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-112384683389283658?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1123646555087537992005-08-10T14:09:00.000+12:002005-08-10T16:03:52.076+12:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5199/616/1600/11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5199/616/320/11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- Creative Commons License -->Its been a while, but here's a demo on using a web based favourite service, tagging, RSS and wikis to collaboratively build an online resource.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Tagging_for_collaboration/taggingforcollaboration.pdf">Get the PDF - 700KB</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Tagging_for_collaboration_1/taggingforcollaboration.mp3">Get the MP3 - 2.2meg </a><br /><br /><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-112364655508753799?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1120569271823433362005-07-06T00:25:00.000+12:002005-07-06T01:14:31.836+12:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/001.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:2px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/001.jpg'></a><br />MIT Open Courseware may be free, but I don't think its all that open. This screencast takes a brief look at why, and proposes the use of wikis to develop free and open courseware. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Wiki_Courseware/wikicourseware.mp3">Wiki Courseware MP3 audio - 3.6 MB</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Wiki_Courseware_1/wikicourseware.pdf">Wiki Courseware PDF presentation - 599.73 KB</a><br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-112056927182343336?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1118121158616246822005-06-07T17:12:00.000+12:002005-10-05T23:12:49.583+13:00<img src="http://leighblackall.com/screencasts/internet-archive-thumb.jpg"/> The Internet Archive is a pretty incredible resource for free and open content. Here I use the Archive to search for content for "Nursing" and it turned up some pretty interesting results.<br /><a href="http://leighblackall.com/screencasts/internet-archive-screencast.pdf">Internet Archive - screencast PDF - 1meg</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Screencasting__The_Internet_Archive/internet_archive.zip">Internet Archive - A PDF and MP3 all zipped up ZIP - 1.5meg</a><br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-111812115861624682?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1118121056253006482005-06-07T17:10:00.000+12:002005-10-05T23:11:57.983+13:00<img src="http://leighblackall.com/screencasts/creative-commons-search-thumb.jpg" /> I needed to demonstrate the search function of the Creative Commons website to show that its more than just a license generator. I'm currently working with staff from the Early Chilhood Faculty, so 2 birds with one stone here goes:<br /><br /><a href="http://leighblackall.com/screencasts/creative-commons-search.zip">Get the MP3 and PDF all zipped up in a ZIP - 1.9meg</a><br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-111812105625300648?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1118120997689372112005-06-07T17:08:00.000+12:002005-10-05T19:37:17.260+13:00<img src="http://leighblackall.com/screencasts/cc-screen-thumb.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://del.icio.us/judell/screencast">Jon Udell</a> inspires me. His screencasts on so many things are not only very insightful, but have offered me numerous shortcuts to understanding various things to do with the screen world I live in.<br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Screencasting__Creative_Commons/creative_commons.zip"><br />I bring to screencasts an alternative method</a>. The combination of MP3 and PDF. I love the flexibility of both these formats, and bringing them together offers screencasting he same level of flexibility. Uses can now download a screencast a fraction of the size of a video screencast, they can listen to the MP3 on their players away from the computer, and similarly view the PDF on screen or in print while they travel on the bus.<br /><br />I have attempted to create these screencasts so that they can be used independently of each other, so the MP3 describes the screen and the PDF has a transcript. Sure it takes a fraction longer, but the tools used to create this alternative are common and freely available, while the screencapturing tools used to create video screencasts are not, though as Jon Udell points out, specialist software is becoming less of an issue.<br /><br />Anyway, give this screencast on using the creative commons.org site a whirl. Let me know what you think. But keep in mind, or feel free to add to my objectives:<br /><ol> <li>To come up with a very easy way to create screencasts</li> <li>using the barest minimal resources</li> <li>outputting to common formats</li> <li>resulting file must be small (preferably under 2 meg) and so portable on storage disks, email, and repositories with file size restrictions.</li> <li>resource must be flexible in use, on screen, in print, on portable media players.</li> <li>Each file must stand alone and not necessarily require the other for successful use.</li> </ol><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-111812099768937211?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1117522960962676442005-05-31T18:37:00.000+12:002005-10-05T23:18:25.366+13:00<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Screencasting__everything_you_need_to_teach_and_learn_online/networkedlearning.mp3">Get the audio recording that will talk you through this screencast</a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything015.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything015.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">eGroups</span><br /><br />I think eGroups are the first place to start in any group communication online. You could effectively run a whole course through an eGroup alone. I use <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/group/teachAndLearnOnline">GoogleGroups</a> to run an eGroup.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything02.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Weblogs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger.com/">Blogger</a> is still my preferred method of web publishing as it is sooo easy to set up and maintain. I have tried out other blogging tools, but in the end I reckon Blogger is still the best. I use Blogger to post relevant information about the sessions for students to check out, as well as assignments and links. When it is important I always post to the eGroup as well, telling everyone to check out the blog(or you can even set up your blog so that it automatically emails your posts to your email group).<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything03.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything03.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">News Reader</span><br /><br />All blogs produce a news feed, which is machine summary of a site for newsreader accounts to display. I use the <a href="http://bloglines.com/public/leighblackall">Bloglines</a> newsreader to keep track of a great number of news and information, including student blogs, teacher blogs, industry news and other interests.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything04.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything04.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media Making - MP3</span><br /><br />Next you will need some tools to create media. I generally only create MP3 and PDF. Sometimes I create movies in Flash and video. For creating MP3s while on the move, such as seminars and spontanious interviews, I use a USB MP3 player and recorder. When I'm at the desk I simply plug a microphone into my laptop and record straight into the free and easy program <a href="http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=U&start=1&amp;q=http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&e=9707">Audacity</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything05.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything05.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media Making - PDF</span><br /><br />For building documents, fliers, presentations, and other types of handouts, and then turning them into PDFs I use <a href="http://openoffice.org">Open Office</a>- the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office. But if you are stuck with Microsoft Office products for a while, then <a href="http://www.primopdf.com">PrimoPDF</a> and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/">PDF Creator</a> are 2 options for any windows application.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything06.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything06.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sourcing Content That Already Exists</span><br /><br />Now, there is loads of stuff on the internet ready for you to use. You have probably heard some of the banter about reusable and sharable learning objects... SCORM... XML... IMS and stuff. Ignore that! Focus on your teaching. All you need to know in relation to that is if a resource is digital, and accessible to you on the internet, then it is reusable and sharable so long as copyright permits it. So copyright is what you really need to concern yourself with. But thanks to the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> its actually quite simple. You can source a whole bunch of stuff from the Creative Commons and the copyright license to all of it is easy to see and understand. As the name implies, it is for the commons, meaning you and I can use it and contribute to it!<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything07.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything07.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Collaborative Online Writing</span><br /><br />Another way to develop resources is to set up an online collaborative workspace known as a wiki (this article was created using a wiki). Wikis are amazing and they're the flavor of the month for me these days. Wikis are text authoring tools based on the internet, that anyone can see and edit through a web browser. Check out <a href="http://wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> to see how amazing this openness can be. I think wikis should become central to the creation of learning resources. Teachers and students from around the world will collaborate on the continuous development of learning resources - even translating them into multiple languages as WikiPedia has done. I mean, WikiPedia is basically it already, all we educators need do is fill in any gaps. If your resources don't suite wikipedia, then you can set up your own wiki very easily at <a href="http://wikispaces.org/">Wikispaces</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything08.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything08.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Storage - bookmarks</span><br /><br />Next, you need a place to save and manage all your links to websites, wikis, blogs, eGroups and Creative Commons media. My advise is to stop using your browser bookmarks and start using a web based bookmark service such as <a href="http://del.icio.us">Del.icio.us</a>. Del.icio.us not only offers the flexibility of being able to access your favourites from any Internetworked computer, but it also automatically links your favourites to other Del.icio.us users who have saved similar links. This is called social software and it is very useful for sourcing good content and information. How about you start off by having a loook at <a href="http://del.icio.us/leighblackall">my account</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything09.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything09.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Storage - Media</span><br /><br />Now, you have your eGroup, your blog, your content, your creative commons library, your collaborative writing spaces, and a place to manage all your links... now you need somewhere to store your media content so that your users can easily download it. In the past I have used free server space such as Yahoo's Geocities, and my own Internet Service Provider's complimentary webspace to store MP3s and PDFs. But these services are pretty limited...<br />Its early days yet, but <a href="http://ourmedia.org/">OurMedia.org</a> promises to be a great place to store unlimited amounts of content for linking to from your blog and emails. OurMedia will soon be the place to store all your MP3s, PDFs, movies and other stuff free or charge. Of course, they encourage you to use a Creative Commons license so others can share it. So watch OurMedia, I think big things are on the horizon there.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/everything10.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/everything10.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But Wait! There's More</span><br /><br />There's quite a bit more worth looking at, but my guess is that if you follow this guide you will inevitably come across all the other great things along the way. <a href="http://flickr.com">F</a><a href="http://flickr.com">lickr</a> for one has developed a fantastic free and webbased digital image sharing service. Flickr can be used as a photo album, an alternative to powerpoint presentations, and a place to interact with others around an image or series of images. So, it never ends really. The best advice I can give is to stay immersed in it, join an eGroup, start your blog, track other people's blogs, and stay in the loop. Learn to love it, and you will gain so much from it all. In 5, 10, 20 years time your students will point to you as the teacher that really showed them a whole new world.<br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-111752296096267644?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1117513758012118192005-05-31T16:28:00.000+12:002005-10-05T22:33:34.670+13:00<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Screencasting__Bloglines/bloglinesscreencast.mp3">Get the audio recording that will talk you through this screencast</a><br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/01.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/01.jpg'></a><br />Today we will be looking at a way to stay in touch with your favorite site's news and recent information. This is known as news feeding or RSS. RSS stands Really Simple Syndication but don't worry about that, RSS may as well be the word to use as its the most commonly understood. What RSS is is basically a snapshot summary of a webpage's content at a given moment. That summary is then sent to a news reader, and presented along side all the other website RSS that you the reader have subscribed to. So what you end up with is the ability to overview the content of many many websites from within the one window. RSS can be a very useful thing to us in education. It offers us a way to keep updated and current on new research and information, if our students are keeping online journals we are able to monitor them, and if our colleagues are keeping online portfolios we can keep up with what they are doing. By using a news reader to subscribe to various news feeds we can dramatically improve how informed and up to date we are on many things at the same time. Today, I am going to demonstrate using a popular newsreader called <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/public/leighblackall">Bloglines</a> and how to go about subscribing to a newsfeed.<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/02.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/02.jpg'></a><br />So, if you took notice of the screen image before this one, you will have seen that I was on the Teach and Learn Online website, or blog. Now I have switch to my Bloglines account to show you what that same website looks like if viewed from within Bloglines. While I have lost all the unique colours and designs of the site, the core content - being the actual articles on the site today - are retained. Take a little look at my Bloglines account. On the left are all the sites I subscribe to. Some of them are bold and some are not. The ones that are bold are ones with new articles that I have not read yet. When I actually go in and at least view them, they switch off their bold display. On the right are a number of features. In the blue bar it tells me that there are 5 other Bloglines users who subscribe to this sites newsfeed (I can click that link and it will show me the public folders of those other subscribers. That can be useful in looking at what others with similar interests are subscribing to). I can check out related feeds, I can unsubscribe from this particular feed and I can edit the subscription.<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/03.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/03.jpg'></a><br />Now, subscribing to a site is very easy. There are a few ways to do it. I will show you 2. If you scroll down the left hand panel to below the list of my subscriptions, there are a bunch of links under a title called "extras". One of those links is called "tips", when you click tips that will open a random help page on using Bloglines in the right hand panel. There are currently about 10 pages with handy tips on using Bloglines, you only need to click the next tip link in the top right of the right hand panel to view each help page. The one I am on in this screen is the Bloglines Subscribe Button. Depending on what Internet browser program you use, here there are a number of buttons that you simply click, drag and drop onto your browsers quick link bar. Have a look at my browser window. See on the bar just below the website address field? There is a quick link that I have renamed "Sub With Bloglines". All I do when I find a website that I think I'd like to stay informed on, is click that link in the browser bar. It will scan the website I have open in the browser and find the RSS or other newsfeed file. If it finds one it will take you through a 1 step subscription process. Lets try that out...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/04.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/04.jpg'></a><br />OK, so I have found a website that I want to stay very informed about. Any new news or information coming from this site, I want to know about. So long as this site produces a newsfeed - and most do these days - I should be able to subscribe to it through my Bloglines account. So I'll click the "Sub with Bloglines" button that I have placed on my browser links bar and see what happens...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/05.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/05.jpg'></a><br />Bloglines has found the newsfeed file and proceeded to the subscription stage. If it didn't find a newsfeed file, it would simply tell me that it didn't and I'd either send an email to the site's webmaster asking about it, or try subscribing to the site's actual news pages. Some sites actually reduce more than one newsfeed file. This is to service old and new newsreader technology, or to deliver category based feeds. All you do is select one or more from the list that Bloglines comes up with and click subscribe. In this case, the site I am subscribing to produces one feed file, so its easy...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/06.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/06.jpg'></a><br />And here it is! The feed is linked on the left hand panel, not yet catagorised into a folder, I will do that later. I have clicked the link and it is now displaying all the recent news from the site. Pretty easy hey? But what if I was on someone else's computer and didn't want to create a button on their browser's link bar? How would I then subscribe my bloglines account to a newsfeed?<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/07.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/07.jpg'></a><br />Ok, so I'm on a university computer. I'm not sure if the browser will let me create a subscription button on the links bar, and I don't think I'd want to do that anyway in case the next user had access to it. I have come across a website that could be very useful later, and I want to be kept informed of any new articles posted to this site. What I need to find on this site is a link to its newsfeed. Most sites that produce a newsfeed offer a link to it for users who are manually subscribing. I suspect that this site will offer a link in the page footer...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/08.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/08.jpg'></a><br />I found the link, it was just a bit of hypertext reading "RSS Newsfeed", I have clicked the link and it has opened up this can of worms! Don't sweat it! Its just the machine readable newsfeed file. All we need to get is the URL or address of this file. I'll just copy the address and login to my Bloglines account...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/09.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/09.jpg'></a><br />On the left hand panel, in the top left is a link called "Add". Clicking this has opened the manual subscribe page in the right hand panel. I've just pasted the address of the feed I copied, then all I do is hit subscribe...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/10.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/10.jpg'></a><br />Oh! Bloglines is just letting me know that I am already subscribed to this site. That's good - its really managing things for me...<br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/11.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/11.jpg'></a><br />Here it is! And here are all the unread articles I need to catch up on. Well, I'll scan them at least for things of interest. There's loads I can still do in Bloglines. I can send articles to a clippings folder, where it will save all my favourite articles for future readings, I can use Bloglines to create a public weblog of the readings that I think are good. Librarians could find this useful. And there other stuff I haven't even looked at yet... <br /><br /><a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/1024/12.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/12.jpg'></a><br />But here's a folder I keep of a class in website design I enrolled in this year. The teacher keeps a blog type website and had all the students do the same to record their learning and reflections. The teacher has a bloglines account in which he has subscribed to all the student's journals, and I then went into his public bloglines folder and copied his subscription. So not only is Bloglines helping him to keep track of his student's learning, but I am able to follow the progress of my fellow students. It really is an amazing tool! <br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-111751375801211819?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296338.post-1117513493861680442005-05-31T16:12:00.000+12:002005-10-05T19:42:30.180+13:00<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Screencasting__Blogger/bloggerscreencast.mp3">Get the MP3 that will talk you through this screencast</a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/01.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/011.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />With many enhanced features, remarkable ease in use, and the notable increase in popularity for keeping an online journal, Blogger is likely the most widely used of the free web journal services on the web at the moment. There are many good reasons for keeping a web journal, but I won't go into it here. I'll just assume that if you are viewing this screencast you are probably already aware of some of the benefits and just want to get an overview of how to get started with Blogger.<br /><br />There are new web journal services popping up all over the place, and there are other tools you should learn to use in conjunction with your web journal so keep looking around and watch out for more screencasts.<br /><br />OK, lets get started. If you have not joined Blogger yet, you will see this screen. It is 3 easy steps from here to get your journal going, so after looking at the information on what is a blog, click the big orange arrow that says create your blog now.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/02.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/021.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Step one, create and account with Blogger. Just 5 fields to fill out, your user name password times 2, display name and email address.<br /><br />Now, some people like to use a nick name or pseudonym as their user name and/or display name that's fine, but consider the potential of a search engine to discover you better if you used your real name. Especially if this is going to be more like a professional portfolio or research journal. I have been using my real name for some time now, and it always pleases me when I do a Google search on my own name just how much comes up. Google is becoming my professional portfolio!<br /><br />Anyway, click the orange arrow that says continue when you've filled all this stuff out. Its down on the bottom right of the screen.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/03.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/031.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Step 2. Name your blog. All this is pretty self explanatory, but thanks to the exploits of dodgy advertisers using robotic spam advertising strategies, Blogger has been forced to put in a field to check that you are not just a robot setting up false accounts. Many account services ask you to recognise letters and numbers within pictures, and that way check that you are a human user. The funny skewiff letters are actually a distorted picture file. You are required to repeat the letters you see to bad if you can't see I guess. I hope Blogger comes up with a new way to prevent spam attacks soon because many users rely on robots to halp them navigate screen content, people with poor eyesight for example. Blogger needs to find a new way to block spam so those of us with poor eyesight will be able to set up blogs without the assistance of others. In the mean time, users relying on such technology may want to try other services, and there are many, and get a friend to get them past this one and only hurdle.<br />Click the orange continue when done.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/04.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/041.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />You can see that spam is quite a problem if Blogger requires you to prove you are human again. We are still on step 2 with Blogger asking us to repeat the letters in the picture again.<br />Click continue when done.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/05.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/051.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Given the popularity of Blogger it is likely that many many blog address URLs are already taken. In this case, I tried to create a <http:> but someone else has already done that one. If you are having trouble getting a satisfactory name for your blog with Blogger, it may be a good reason to use one of the other free weblog services. I'll change mine to joblogsportfolio.<br />Click continue when done.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/06.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/061.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />At last we have made it past the troublesome step 2. We have proved to blogger that we are not a robot, we have found an address that is not being used, now we need to choose a design for our blog. You can scroll down through a number of available templates and preview each of them by clicking the preview template link beneath each thumbnail graphic of the design range. When you have decided on one you need to click the little circle button corresponding to the design you like then press continue. Don't worry, it is very easy to change the design you have chosen at any stage in your blogspot's life.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/07.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/071.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Success! Our blog has been created, we can now start posting articles to our journal be clicking the orange arrow again titled start posting. But I'd just like to say that while this went well for us today, sometimes those 3 steps can go wrong at any point and come back with errors. Just keep persevering if this happens to you, while errors may block you along the way, you will eventually get through, and you may even discover that for every attempt you made, a blog was actually created in your account and you have ended up with 3 or more blogs! Its easy to delete these excess blogs later on, so don't worry. You can't break anything at this stage so try away.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/09.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/091.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />So I have clicked the settings tab and there are quite a number of subtabs including basic settings, publishing settings, formatting, comments (yes, you can allow or disallow people to post comments to your blog), archiving, site feed (and this is where web journaling networks really come into a realm of their own - to learn more about using site feeds, see my screencast called Bloglines), and then there are settings for getting your blog to send you an email everytime a comment is made, as well as an option to use your email to send new posts to your blog, and finally, there is a members setting for creating group blogs.<br /><br />Next to the Settings tab is another important tab called Template. This is where you can choose another template design to change the look of your site, and you can do this at any time without loosing content.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/09.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/091.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />So I have clicked the settings tab and there are quite a number of subtabs including basic settings, publishing settings, formatting, comments (yes, you can allow or disallow people to post comments to your blog), archiving, site feed (and this is where web journaling networks really come into a realm of their own - to learn more about using site feeds, see my screencast called Bloglines), and then there are settings for getting your blog to send you an email everytime a comment is made, as well as an option to use your email to send new posts to your blog, and finally, there is a members setting for creating group blogs.<br /><br />Next to the Settings tab is another important tab called "Template". This is where you can choose another template design to change the look of your site, and you can do this at any time without loosing content.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/10.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/101.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />So there are 2 subtabs under template. One is "edit current" in which you can get your hands dirty with the source code and really start customising the look of your site. If you don't have any idea about this now, it is surprisingly easy, and even a little fun. Certainly easy to learn - standing on the shoulders of giants so to speak. The base code is there for you to change around, and you can always revert back to the original template if you stuff it up.<br />If you are not ready to play with this code stuff, then the other subtab will offer you a bigger range of templates to apply to your site. Also, a Google search for blogger templates will turn up a huge selection of free templates designers are giving away, its really limitless. Have fun.<br />Now, up in the top right are some blue buttons, one of which says "back to dashboard". This will take you to your main admin page, where if you have more than one blog you can switch between them, and you can edit your profile. Lets take a look.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/640/11.jpg"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/162/3926/400/111.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Yes, that is the picture I use in my profile, and yes, that is how many blogs I maintain. I really get a hell of a lot out of blogging. It is my Internet identity I guess. I have met so many people who are interested in the same things as I am, and it has certainly been useful for impressing employers and for teaching the odd group of students. Some blogs I keep have been deleted as they were only temporary anyway, others I have not posted to in ages, and others I post to all the time. What you do with this Blogger service is really up to you. I have seen some people use it as a presentation tool alternative to powerpoint, others use group blogging to capture communication and links for a group project, others use it to sell stuff, and others use it to draught books. I use it to develop my internet identity and to network with potential partners in collaborative projects. It has done well for me so far.<br /><br /><!-- Creative Commons License --><br /><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.<br /><!-- /Creative Commons License --><br /><br /><br /><!-- <rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><br /><work about=""><br /> <license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /></work><br /><br /><license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"><br /> <requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"><br /> <permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"><br /></license><br /><br /></rdf:RDF><br /><br />--><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13296338-111751349386168044?l=screencasting.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leigh Blackallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845313396595646728noreply@blogger.com4