So Much to Learn...So Little Time

Pbwiki tutorials

For some time now I've been meaning to teach myself how to make a screen cast.
Due to my current situation (displaced lumbar disk) I have found myself with time to spare. So to kill 2 birds with one stone I thought I'd put together a series of short tutorials to help our Connecting Classroom partners access and use the wiki I have started to publicise and share our partnership's activities.

Had a few problems to resolve first though:

• I wanted to use Jing because the image quality seems to be excellent, but it kept cutting out after 2 mins, and I found out there is a 200mb limit which isn't all that large.
• Ended up using iShowU which is mac specific and although image quality isn't what I would really like it serves its purpose...(I've now sussed how to improve the picture quality so the video below is a new version)

I also finally got to use mousepose which is a funky presentation tool for macs.
I then imported the film to garageband and added some background music.

Then uploaded to blip.tv and copied the embed code.

Easy peasy really...once you know how.

Huntly Hairst - Farmers Market

TGStv - the first show

There's a new vodcast in the blogosphere.

Click TGStv and add it to your reader. Here's the first show.

The student involvement in all stages of the process is not quite ther but I am hoping that with time, I will have to do less and less and will operate as a quality control. Good job all the same I think.

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