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

Flexible Learning Development

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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.

Wiki-structure

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Here's a first attempt to show the beginnings of the wiki structure in action through 2 developments we have going here. Based on this diagram and sample pages from the Otago Polytechnic projects.

Embed multi media into blogs

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How to embed youtube and slide share into blogger and wordpress blogs

Renaming Del.icio.us tags

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A quick demo on how to rename tags in del.icio.us and an idea to organised collaborative tagging projects.

Samual Klien OLPC

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Using GoogleGroups

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A screen recording looking at the email list service called Google Groups

using RSS

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prompted by Peter Allen at the TALO email list, and Teemu Leinonen at FlossePosse blog

Avalanche Safety

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An outline of the Avalanche Safety courses on offer at Otago Polytechnic. Music by Teru: http://ccmixter.org/media/files/teru/8892

Creating banners for slide presentations

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cropping a creative commons image and placing it as a banner in a presentation slide.

Trouble uploading to Archive.org

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I really want to be able to use Archive.org

I'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.

But there is not yet a simple upload process. Ourmedia almost gives us that simple upload process, but we can't seem to get files through.. anyway, I would prefer to have our media listed straight on Archive.

This is a screenrecording of my troubles. 

Adding team members to a Blogger blog

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Flash - motion tween and a button

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Flash - jpeg image to a vector graphic

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Scribus - Free and open source desk top publisher

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Freedom and Flexibility with Web2 data

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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