Multimedia
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010If you haven’t been keeping tabs on HTML5, the new version of HTML currently underdevelopment, you might be interested in this cool project created by Google and Arcade Fire (my new favorite band). The project is called The Wilderness Downtown and is meant to show off HTML5′s new video tag. Just enter your zip code [...]
Odeo Back From the Dead?
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Will wonders never cease: it appears that Odeo, the media-hosting site that has been d.o.a. for months, is up and running again. Odeo hosts YA! Cast, which is published via iTunes. When Odeo died a few months ago, there was nothing I could do to change my RSS feed into iTunes. So, I used free [...]
Use Viddler and Ning to Embed Private Video in a Private Network
Thursday, April 1st, 2010I have been interested in web video for the past five years or so–and those years have seen a huge number of changes, as popular formats have come and gone (remember Real Player?), as YouTube exploded, and as the web as a whole got much, much faster. I have been searching for the ideal way [...]
Video Games Go to Hell
Saturday, February 13th, 2010I’ve been interesting the link between gaming and reading for some time now. So, I’m always interested when games that are based on literary classics come out. The latest venture into this area is Dante’s Inferno by Electronic Arts. NPR covered the development of this game a few days ago, perhaps to ease the consciences [...]
Turn Your Computer into a Streaming Media Server with Orb
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Video is hard. Okay, pointing a camcorder at your nephews as they open yet another Star Wars Lego set is not hard. It’s what you do afterwards that gets challenging. In days before hard drive camcorders, you had to transfer your footage to your computer in real time, typically from a small tape called a [...]
Best. Podcasts. Ever.
Thursday, December 10th, 2009With apologies to the exceptional students in previous sections of my Teaching Literature course, I would say that the most recent batch of podcasts are the best to date. When I began the YA! Cast project in 2006, my students and I had roughly the same expertise with Audacity and other recording software. Not much. [...]
More on Prezi: My Vampire Literature Course, Conceptualized
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009I’ve been fiddling with Prezi these last few days, and I’ve gotten to know the software pretty well. It has a few holes: it would be nice to have the “place” tool light up when it is selected; importing audio would be a plus; the line tool needs to be more sophisticated; and a text [...]
Xtranormal Video Makes Directing Easy
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009I just checked out Xtranormal Video (thanks Tami), a new site that makes machinima very simple. Just sign up for a free account, and you’re an instant auteur. I created the following movie in about fifteen minutes, though the rendering process took about twice that long. Notice the camera angle changes, the facial expressions of [...]
GoogleLitTrips Uses Google Earth to Place Literary Settings
Monday, April 6th, 2009One of the best parts about going to a good conference is coming home with new ideas–and new online resources. I hadn’t heard of Google Lit Trips before Saturday’s Bright Ideas Conference, even though it uses a popular web-based application (Google Earth) to help students understand literary texts. If you haven’t used Google Earth yet, [...]
New Media Tools: Screentoaster and the Levelator
Friday, January 16th, 2009Over the past few years, I have made a few screencasts–short movies of my computer screen, taken as I explain a particular application. You can see my screencast of Google Reader here, for example. I have also incorporated screencasts into longer videos, like my examination of Faculty on Facebook (also here). I used free tools [...]
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