After class I decided to find a way to solidify my learning by putting it all together: sound, splitting, recording, muting, publishing, embedding into my blog, and titles on slides and over video, by making a digital gift for my daughter for her efforts in this season’s basketball. After learning the newer cameras take mp4 video, I got out an old camera with which I had taken some digital clips of her games.
I had trouble getting the product on YouTube because there is apparently an issue with downloading from Internet Explorer. I learned Movie Maker made my regular computer freeze up a lot. It eventually died in the class and I had to get another one for the weekend. I learned if I tried to do anything to the story line before I clicked “Done” for the last operation, Movie Maker and the new computer froze up. (This happened three times, before I figured it out.) Using the new computer I had to learn some basics of Word 2007, which is not on my old computer. But most of all I learned how to place the lines of a label over a video that still allowed the observer to see the video action where I wanted their attention drawn.
The next thing I had to learn was to make a YouTube account. It was good having a Gmail account, which made it easy. By publishing this video on YouTube, I can offer my mother an opportunity to see her granddaughter playing basketball. I would next like to try recording a lesson using the SmartBoard recorder then placing sound over it.
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Yes, if its one thing I've learned from the course, it's that technology does not make our lives easier. And the most sophisticated technology is rarely the best one to use. KISS principle wins again. We had the same issues with Moviemaker, file types, uploading, etc. Finally decided to use the simplest technology available and just focus on the content, not the bells and whistles.
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