Build Your Own GarageBand Loops From Any Music File
"Loops are wonderful little things. With judicious use of these musical snippets, you can construct entire albums of material from tiny building blocks -- or just scatter a couple over your compositions for flavor. GarageBand comes with a pretty healthy assortment, but spend enough time in the Garage and you may find your songs starting to sound an awful lot like everyone else's.
You're in luck. In a few easy steps, you can create your own loops from nearly any music file you've got lying around."
Click Here to Read the Full Article
Wednesday
When You Have Some Time...
I know it's hard to make time as a teacher to do more than just plan and teach. But if you have a chance, sneak on over to this very helpful site. Here's what Techlearning has to say about it:
Storytelling 2.0 "It turns out a very busy person named Alan Levine created an online resource for a series of workshops that lists (at the time of this writing) 57 different Web 2.0 tools that can be used for digital storytelling. That in itself isn't unusual, of course, but what he did that was different was he took the time to retell the same story with each tool!
The site is at http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools, and is wonderfully comprehensive. In addition to his own oft-retold story, almost all of the titles also include examples of stories told by others. He also has a shorter list at the end of tools that he's tried that weren't successful for one reason or another, so you can see what sites to avoid (at least for now). Be sure to budget a lot of time for exploring!"
Storytelling 2.0 "It turns out a very busy person named Alan Levine created an online resource for a series of workshops that lists (at the time of this writing) 57 different Web 2.0 tools that can be used for digital storytelling. That in itself isn't unusual, of course, but what he did that was different was he took the time to retell the same story with each tool!
The site is at http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools, and is wonderfully comprehensive. In addition to his own oft-retold story, almost all of the titles also include examples of stories told by others. He also has a shorter list at the end of tools that he's tried that weren't successful for one reason or another, so you can see what sites to avoid (at least for now). Be sure to budget a lot of time for exploring!"
Sunday
Who's On Your Blacklist?
Submit a video of yourself, a relative, a friend, a co-worker, a neighbor, or anyone who has a story to tell about his or her personal experience of black life in America today.
Just like the subjects of the upcoming HBO documentary THE BLACK LIST: VOLUME ONE, the subjects of the winning videos will have their portraits taken by famed photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in New York (transportation provided) and be interviewed by acclaimed journalist Elvis Mitchell. Select submissions may be showcased on various HBO platforms in 2009.
Just like the subjects of the upcoming HBO documentary THE BLACK LIST: VOLUME ONE, the subjects of the winning videos will have their portraits taken by famed photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in New York (transportation provided) and be interviewed by acclaimed journalist Elvis Mitchell. Select submissions may be showcased on various HBO platforms in 2009.
Download YouTube Videos
In the ongoing saga that is trying to get Youtube vids onto your desktop/into iMovie/into FCP...here's the newest update courtesy of Lifehacker. And I quote, from Tip #1 "If you want to stash a YouTube clip away for editing or watching without the net, you've definitely got options. Internet Explorer users might appreciate YouTube File Hack, which grabs FLV files for you. The Better YouTube Firefox extension, crafted by our own site editor, adds a simple 'Download this video' link to any YouTube page, and the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet is a nice cross-browser conversion tool. If you're away from your own setup, Vixy.net and Viddownloader are your go-to sites for downloading clips. As for watching FLV files, we like and use the cross-platform VLC player."
Click here for Lifehackers: Top 10 YouTube Hacks
Click here for Lifehackers: Top 10 YouTube Hacks
Thursday
Just One Way Folks are Bridging the Digital
Installfest is a volunteer run effor that took place at this year's LinuxWorld Conference
"The idea of Installfest is to take advantage of the low overhead of open-source tools and operating systems, such as the Linux-based Ubuntu, so that computers that would otherwise have been discarded can be put to use for educational institutions and other groups, including low-income individuals and non-profits. Organizers and volunteers installed open-source solutions, such as Firefox, Open Office, and Ubuntu, on recycled computers donated by the ACCRC, which will then be given out to participating schools." Read More Here
"The idea of Installfest is to take advantage of the low overhead of open-source tools and operating systems, such as the Linux-based Ubuntu, so that computers that would otherwise have been discarded can be put to use for educational institutions and other groups, including low-income individuals and non-profits. Organizers and volunteers installed open-source solutions, such as Firefox, Open Office, and Ubuntu, on recycled computers donated by the ACCRC, which will then be given out to participating schools." Read More Here
Cool Stuff over at Stories for Change
Help Us Celebrate Youth Voices!:
"In honor of International Youth Day, we are excited to announce our online campaign to feature digital stories made by youth from around the world that are working to make the world a better place. Starting August 12th through September 2nd, we will be displaying a rotating assortment of stories on the homepage as well as encouraging dialogue on strategies for doing digital storytelling projects with youth.
We also encourage youth members and those working with youth to consider uploading their own stories (visit: http://storiesforchange.net/node/add/story) on this theme and including the “youth” tag so they can be added to our growing collection.
This celebration is a part of Stories for Change’s initiative of sharing stories on particular themes, to coincide with various international days and celebrations. The goal of this initiative is to highlight both the diversity of voices on the site and the common social justice threads going on in the world of digital storytelling today.
Through the initiative, are working to connect with other organization's doing work on specific social justice issues and encourage them to become involved in the Stories for Change community. For more information, please email: laura@storycenter.org.
All the best,
The Stories for Change Team"
"In honor of International Youth Day, we are excited to announce our online campaign to feature digital stories made by youth from around the world that are working to make the world a better place. Starting August 12th through September 2nd, we will be displaying a rotating assortment of stories on the homepage as well as encouraging dialogue on strategies for doing digital storytelling projects with youth.
We also encourage youth members and those working with youth to consider uploading their own stories (visit: http://storiesforchange.net/node/add/story) on this theme and including the “youth” tag so they can be added to our growing collection.
This celebration is a part of Stories for Change’s initiative of sharing stories on particular themes, to coincide with various international days and celebrations. The goal of this initiative is to highlight both the diversity of voices on the site and the common social justice threads going on in the world of digital storytelling today.
Through the initiative, are working to connect with other organization's doing work on specific social justice issues and encourage them to become involved in the Stories for Change community. For more information, please email: laura@storycenter.org.
All the best,
The Stories for Change Team"
Monday
Cool Photo Contest (Film, not Digital)
Brian Auer is running a very cool contest over at the Epic Edits Weblog that could be of interest to both Teachers and Students.
The $50 Film Camera: "My main objective for the project as a whole is to show other photographers that film photography can be very inexpensive and exciting. For whatever reason, there’s a popular belief that film photography is expensive and tedious. But through your participation in this project, we can disprove that point and show everybody just how great film can be."
1. Buy a Camera
2. Shoot & Develop Your Film
3. Write a Review of Your Camera
4. Publish a Photo of Your Camera
5. Publish an Entire Roll of Photos
6. Submit Your Link on the Form
...and, if you're lucky, WIN!!!
The Deadline is September 12, 2008
The $50 Film Camera: "My main objective for the project as a whole is to show other photographers that film photography can be very inexpensive and exciting. For whatever reason, there’s a popular belief that film photography is expensive and tedious. But through your participation in this project, we can disprove that point and show everybody just how great film can be."
1. Buy a Camera
2. Shoot & Develop Your Film
3. Write a Review of Your Camera
4. Publish a Photo of Your Camera
5. Publish an Entire Roll of Photos
6. Submit Your Link on the Form
...and, if you're lucky, WIN!!!
The Deadline is September 12, 2008
Final Cut Studio: Best practices when naming projects and assets
You ever know you KNOW something, but have no idea HOW you know it? This causes problems for me when I'm talking to other filmmakers or educators because I can't cite a source. Well, thankfully, I found a source for this one!
I've been telling people for years that they shouldn't name files with a period or slash in them. (For example, I've seen people insert dates like this: Project.718.fcp or Draft/718.doc) Here's more info from apple.com/support about characters you can and cannot use.
Final Cut Studio: Best practices when naming projects and assets: "This document discusses general guidelines for naming Final Cut Studio projects and related media assets. It's important to be aware that certain characters can be interpreted as functions, wildcards or path designators, and their use should be avoided when naming drives, folders, assets or projects."
Also, it's mentioned here in reference to iMovie and Quicktime files on Mobileme.
I've been telling people for years that they shouldn't name files with a period or slash in them. (For example, I've seen people insert dates like this: Project.718.fcp or Draft/718.doc) Here's more info from apple.com/support about characters you can and cannot use.
Final Cut Studio: Best practices when naming projects and assets: "This document discusses general guidelines for naming Final Cut Studio projects and related media assets. It's important to be aware that certain characters can be interpreted as functions, wildcards or path designators, and their use should be avoided when naming drives, folders, assets or projects."
Also, it's mentioned here in reference to iMovie and Quicktime files on Mobileme.
Wednesday
This Is Why I Love MacLife Magazine
"iTunes K-12 has the potential to be as varied and as iTunes U proper. Like the students themselves, iTunes K-12 just needs a bit of time and effort to mature.
Here’s a look at some student-friendly K-12 podcasts that are also interesting to adults..."
iTunes K-12 Section Has Some Growing Up to Do
Here’s a look at some student-friendly K-12 podcasts that are also interesting to adults..."
iTunes K-12 Section Has Some Growing Up to Do
People Ask Me All the Time - How Do I Save My YouTube Favs?
The Best Web Video Download Tools � NewTeeVee: "Streaming web video is great and all, but every once in a while you find something that you just want to save and cherish for always. If your home Internet connection is as unreliable as mine you’ll understand what I mean. There are a bunch of web sites and little apps to help you save hard copies of web videos, but perhaps due to their teetering on the edge of violating video hosts’ TOS, they are less than user-friendly. So yesterday I decided to go through them all and figure out which ones are the best."
Monday
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Thanks to The Workbook Project for pointing out that the Center for Social Media at American University has published an updated Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
"This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances."
"This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances."
Saturday
Share Video over the Internet?
I'm continually amazed by how international local issues have gotten. Here's an article from an Indian newspaper explaining some of the perspectives and issues important to FCC's recent decision on Comcast.
Techtree.com : Back Off the Internet -- FCC to Comcast
Net neutrality and bandwidth are ESSENTIAL to any discussion about digital divide. If you don't know, now you know...
Techtree.com : Back Off the Internet -- FCC to Comcast
Net neutrality and bandwidth are ESSENTIAL to any discussion about digital divide. If you don't know, now you know...
Friday
Fun Idea for P2P Learning
This is a nice little lesson plan that has 6th Graders making a project for 2nd Graders. I do wish there was a link to some student samples...
Techlearning :Making Flip Books to Improve Reading : "Each sixth grade child will take a basic picture book and turn it into a digital picture book using GarageBand, iTunes, scanners, and iMovie."
Techlearning :Making Flip Books to Improve Reading : "Each sixth grade child will take a basic picture book and turn it into a digital picture book using GarageBand, iTunes, scanners, and iMovie."
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