Moodle snippet - Embed youtube playlist

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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.

Everything you need to teach and learn onlineP3: Feeds

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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.

wikimedia commons: open academia workshop

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In a workshop at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.

wikiversity: open academia workshop

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In a workshop at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.

copyright: open academia workshop

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In a workshop at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.

introduction - open academia workshop

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In a workshop at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.

Creative Commons Search

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In a workshop at the University of Canberra, looking at Creative Commons Search.

Everything you need to teach and learn online p2: Blogger

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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.

Everything you need to teach and learn online Part 1 Independence

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First of a series of videos remaking the original post Everything you need to teach online.

Solving Youtubes webcam record problem

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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.

Popular internet in teaching and research

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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

Connecting, sharing, developing - The open PhD

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Audio recording to the presentation made at the University of Canberra's PhD induction day. 4 Feb 2010

Mobile videos-Youtube, web-based editing Kaltura

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How to email video clips from your phone to Youtube, then import the clips from Youtube to a Kaltura web based video editor

Adding an image to media wikis

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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.

What is Vlogging

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Greg Evans, editor of InterfaceNZ magazine has asked me to write a regular column on video - starting with vlogging.

So what is vlogging? Well, I don't want to limit this to text - so how about we start by watching my little video I just made: What is Vlogging.

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!

And that'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'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's another revolution right there! We'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 "broadcast quality" 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.

If you want more to think about on this, I'd highly recommend Michael Wesch's presentation to the Library of Congress: An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube

Ok, what about vlogging?

Vlogging combines the words video and blogging. Regular readers of Interface should by now know what a blog is, but in case you're new to it - here'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.

A video-blog or vlog then, is simply a blog that uses video as its primary media in each post.

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.

Ok, so now you know what a vlog is, and maybe some of you want to set one up. Well, that's easy and wont cost you a cent! (Except for the woefully expensive monthly Internet charges in NZ).

First step is to create an account on Youtube. It doesn't have to be Youtube, there are other video publishing services, but let's keep it simple.

Your next step is to post your first video to your Youtube account. There are 3 ways:

1. Upload a video you have from your computer
2. Record a video directly onto Youtube by way of your webcam
3. Record a video with your mobile phone and send it to your Youtube account via its own email address.

Youtube has great help videos for learning how to do any of these things, and more.

That's it! You have created your first post to your Youtube vlog. Other people can access your vlog by going to http://youtube.com/user/YOURUSERNAME

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's video upload features.

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'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 Internet Archive.

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 Wikipedia article is a great place to start.

See you next issue with another how-to on DIY video.

Printing books from Wikibooks

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Screen recording on how to generate a PDF version of a wikibook, ready for printing.

Blip.tv RSS into Wikieducator

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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.

This screenrecording goes through the steps involved in embedding a series of videos from Blip into Wikieducator through RSS. Lovely!

How I do a screencast

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From video to print: http://www.wikieducator.org/Creating_a_screen_recording

Approach

1. To create a video recording of a computer screen and application
2. To compress the video and upload it to popular video publishing services
3. To transcribe the audio in the video to text on a wiki
4. To create a series of still images from that video and combine them with text to create a print version

How to

A video that overviews this particular method of screencast can be found at the following links:

• Blip: http://blip.tv/file/332594
• Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-275675818200866523
• Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nRTzC_OBev8

And still images for these steps are yet to be added to the Wiki page but are here for now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/archives/date-posted/2007/08/08/

1. Download Camstudio (Free and open source for Windows)
2. Download ScreenHunter free (freeware)
3. Download Videora iPod converter (freeware)
4. Download iPod Video Converter (shareware)
5. Search "camstudio" on youtube and find and watch a demo on using Camstudio
6. Search "screenhunter" on youtube or Screencasting blog and find and watch demo on using ScreenHunter.
7. Search "videora" on youtube and find and watch a demo on how to use Videora iPod converter
8. Create a screen recording using Camstudio
9. Create a series of still images from the video using ScreenHunter
10. Compress the video using Videora iPod converter
11. Create an account with Youtube, Blip.tv and Google video
12. Upload the compressed video using HeySpreadit! Update. Heyspread now charges a fee. Use TubeMogul.com
13. Upload the still images to Wikieducator and position the images in a new wikipage named according to your screenrecording
14. Transcribe the audio in the video to text on the wikipage and include a link to the video on Youtube.

Using Google Maps

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A look at Google Maps, finding a street location, viewing in hybrid, zooming in and positioning, getting directions, copying the link.

Wikimapia

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A quick look at the features of Wikimapia