April 2007
A day in the Instructional Technology Facility
27 04 07 11:13
I'm writing this blog to show to my LRG560 class, because I think I do a fair amount of 'Multimedia Literacy' educaton as part of my regular work week!
For example, this morning I helped George Mamboleo dump his video from a camera into a Windows XP machine, edit the video in MovieMaker, save the final product as a .wmv file small enough to playback over 340kbps LAN, and upload the final product to his blog so for a class project. Fun! Here is the link to his blog page with the video... The interesting thing I learned is that YouTube (where you can create an account to host your videos) allows you to paste either a link to the page that people can navigate to in order to view your video, or they provide you with the code you can paste into another website (like blogger) to embed the video in your offsite web site! Very nice feature!
I have been helping Yvonne Gonzalez to make a good-bye video for a certain person we all love in the College of Education... it's a big secret, though, so I can't post the final product yet.
Next, I helped a student to take a scanned .opd (OmniPage Pro 15.0) file and parse the pages into .jpg files which we then reduced in size (from 2000+ x 2000+ pixels to about 200 x 199 pixels on the first one, for example) so that they would paste into a Microsoft Word document.
Finally I was asked to help take a group of group photos and paste a coworker's face into the crown in each one. Interesting assignment! One resulting photo is shown above.
All of this 'Multimedia Literacy' training in the course of one work day in the Instructional Technology Facility.
I'm learning a lot!
I have been helping Yvonne Gonzalez to make a good-bye video for a certain person we all love in the College of Education... it's a big secret, though, so I can't post the final product yet.
Next, I helped a student to take a scanned .opd (OmniPage Pro 15.0) file and parse the pages into .jpg files which we then reduced in size (from 2000+ x 2000+ pixels to about 200 x 199 pixels on the first one, for example) so that they would paste into a Microsoft Word document.
Finally I was asked to help take a group of group photos and paste a coworker's face into the crown in each one. Interesting assignment! One resulting photo is shown above.
All of this 'Multimedia Literacy' training in the course of one work day in the Instructional Technology Facility.
I'm learning a lot!
Javalina Invasion
10 04 07 06:09
