Alyson's funny video (ok so its funny to me)

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Jillian does her cleaner version of racist knock knock jokes...to teach Michael Richards a PC lesson

Save JREC-Alyson's educational piece

alyson's video regarding the Julia Richman Educational Complex, 5 successful small schools in the NYC school system that are located on the Upper East Side of NYC. The building has been threatened with demolition and the schools will have to be relocated to west 23rd street and the East River. See my accompanying post of November 20 at http://sloperaly.blogspot.com

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In a recent post on November 20th I promised a short video about the planned demolition of the Julia Richman Educational Complex in NYC's upper East Side.. (see post below for details).

For more information on this please visit http://www.jrec.org

Question re technique

In Josh Leo's "Vlog on Vlog" and in Adrian Mile's posting on vlogs, "Media Rich vs Rich Media," the videos have other videos inserted into them and playing at the same time. How is this done? What program is used for editing these videos? Anybody know?

Vlog- and blogrolls

Well, I have two vlogs now (the one I started in this class that is now a communications device between myself and my children) and another that I resurrected from an unused blog I had originated in 2001 when I was taking CMC with Robbie McClintock which is the one I use for testing stuff out. So--what are my vlog- and blogrolls like? That's the purpose of this post!

On the test site, I have the following:

One man's ceiling
Dancing on the ceiling
Linguini on the ceiling
Crib ceiling

There is only one thing these sites have in common, and that is that they have the word ceiling in the title of the blogs--and "ceilings" is the theme of my test vlog! I actually like the "Linguini on the ceiling" site and found out that the writer is actually a contributor to another site I found and listed on my "real" vlog site...

On my "real" site, I have links to these sites:

Sites about vlogging:

Vlog Map Community This is a geographical directory of vlogs--if I chose to list my vlog with them (which I'd never do, as I have privacy issues), I'd be the 12th vlogger listed for New Jersey!

Adrian Miles' "vlog 3.0" and "videoblog::vog 2.0" For whatever reasons, I like looking at/reading what Adrian Miles (yes, this is the guy I posted about earlier) has to say about the state of the "art" of vlogging.

Humorous sites:

Help my patients is a goof on psychotherapy--just the thought of a therapist going on line to solicit help for his patients strikes me as insanely funny...

Go fug yourself (newer site) and an older version I found these sites on the Vloggies site (before this year's Vloggies were awarded), I think, and I find them hysterical. When my daughter was a teenager and we would get stuck in the checkout line at the grocery store, every now and then I would buy a Star, just for the fun of it. When we got home, the first thing we did was open up to the double page spread on what various celebrities wore--and then we'd hoot like crazy--especially at the "Would you be caught dead wearing this" section. My daughter called me one day after I put these links up and she was feeling awful--a really bad cold--and I guess just wanted to be comforted a bit--so I told her to go to these two sites--that it would be just like the two of us at the kitchen table laughing out loud. She actually did it, and when she was feeling better reported back that it was as close to that old experience as we could probably get these days considering that she's living so far away...

Sites about life in Germany/the "expat" experience:

German Joys
Germany doesn't suck
An American Expat in Deutschland
Broke in Berlin -- left the blogosphere -- discovered 12/5/06
Berlin Bites
Heisse Scheisse
Quarter Life Crisis

I'm interested in how Americans fare in Germany because (yes! you guessed it!) that's where my daughter is living, and I want some idea of the challenges she's facing (and some different points of view other than hers) and a better idea of what the day to day life is like and what the issues are... I actually have been reading "Germany Joys" for a couple of years now--it was link sent to me by my son-in-law, and then found "Quarter Life Crisis" about a year ago when I stumbled across it because the author had written some shareware I was interested in. I'm relatively new to the other sites--sites I came across since starting this class.

"News" sites:

Digg This site pulls together articles from various news reports all over the globe. It kind of interesting. I first looked at it because it was a site mentioned in that Habermas article that Richard told us about the first day of class and I wanted to see what it was all about.

Spot-on This blog also pulls together news from all over, but not a hodgepodge of articles as with Digg. There are a number of journalists who contribute to this blog, and they select the pieces to showcase and comment on. I came across this looking for expat sites--two of the journalists who write for it are now living in Europe. Interestingly enough, one of the American contributors also is the author of "Linguini on the ceiling."

Miscellaneous sites:

Jewschool claims to be the web's "leading progressive Jewish weblog, featuring 30 contributors from 5 countries" and promising "alternative views and culture"--and it delivers on that promise--I just find it an interesting site--not preaching, not begging--just interesting to look at every now and then.

Bitch PhD strikes me as a human interest story does in the newspaper--I like to check it every now and then to see how she's doing and what she's railing at.

My Mom's Blog by Thoroughly Modern Millie is a vlog/blog put together by Millie Garfield and her son Steve. Millie, at eighty-something, has been proclaimed the world's oldest blogger. Her son Steve is fairly well known in the vlogging community and has certainly had a hand in getting his mom blogging, and is in charge of the camera when she makes a clip to post on her vlog. This is just another site I go to every now and then to see what's up in her life. There is a hysterical/real/sorta-sad-in-a-way series of videos about "I can't open this" in which she presents various products to her son to open because she just can't manage--which is pretty bad because this senior citizen is certainly competent and living on her own, and to be stopped down by being unable to open the Stretch-Tite box or an "easy open" coffee can--it's just not right!

FredScahfer's Video

Click here to play Dog Humor Video

This is a dog humor video where my dog barks
at 2 mechnical singing dogs. At first he growls
and bites them but later he sings along with
them (unfortunately we can not hear the singing
dogs chirp)



Click here to play Brookville Park Video

This is a narrative video that shows my favorite
place to relax, enjoy nature, and get away from
it all. Being here can calm the nerves and
stimulate one's creative processes.



Click here to play My Bio video

This is my education video where I prepare
my lesson plans, class assignments, class
projects, and prepare future projects.
Technologically I have everything I need
here to be creative and efficient.


Click here to play Video Class Video

This is my course video. I took a videoblogging
class at Teachers College, Columbia University
in the Fall of 2006. I am glad that I took this
class, for it will broadcast my business and
the things that I like to do.

Click here to play Extreme Pleasures video

This is my home video where I have 2 different

homes, in two different places and I enjoy them

both in 2 different climate temperatures.

New York City Marathon video- Alyson Narrative

Sunday morning early, my husband and I peeked outside our terrace and saw the lead wheelchair racers from the 2006 NYC Marathon. Only minutes before we had seen them on TV racing over the Queensboro Bridge. We went down to view from the corner of 68th and 1st Ave just in time to see the front runners for the women (Jelena Prokopcuka repeated as the New York City Marathon champion. According to the official Marathon website she is the sixth woman in the history of the race to achieve this feat). The race had 37, 954 finishers, the most ever. We took a hike on over to Central Park to see the finish. While we couldn't get close enough to the finish line to see them cross, we hung out in the park just past Tavern on the Green, their final stop. Here's our day!
-alyson

Watch the Marathon Video

Alyson- Home

Hi Richard and all. Tonight I got home and my husband (technophobe though he may be) figured out how to get our desktop to show up! I was so happy after being bummed all day about my complications. The short 2 videos on each of my girls that I worked on all week scanning and editing are safe! I was able to post one using bliptv but it will not cross post to yours. I see nothing i'm doing wrong but i'm supposing there's a problem tonight so i'll try in the morning!
see you
alyson

Class assignment: narrative

Well, I had a very serious video about "adaptive reusue" (read that as selling out to crass comercialization and ruination by the National Park Service) at the Hook almost already to go Friday night (11/3) and was just fiddling with the final touches when, of course, iMovie crashed and the recorded soundtrack, along with 80% of the editing, was lost and gone forever (and I kept hearing myself saying to my students: "Remember to save often!"--if only I had followed my own advice!). I still had my original footage already imported into iMovie, and Diane, Michael and I redid the narration, but at 11:45 pm, it was way too late to start a re-edit... I went to bed totally bummed out, but woke up with a brilliant idea: I could do a quicke with my granddaughter just telling me a story using my "still" camera--except that at the last moment Miss Maisy decided she really didn't know any stories (it was then 7:15 am and the class was at 9:30 and I needed to leave at 8:10--I was quietly gnashing my teeth), but then she did allow that she could read a book to me. And that's how I ended up with this little video edited in minutes with QuickTime Pro..

Watch the video clip "Reading"

"Visual Archive for Vloggers"

Watch movie (5 MB, 1.4 min)

Original post on August 10, 2005 from Ryanne's Video Blog: (RSS feed)

We're sitting around, geeking out and Peter, Verdi, Josh and I thought it might be rad to use the Mefeedia thumbnail generator to make a visual archive for your videoblog. But how would we do that in Blogger since you can't generate html pages? Put the code in a post! The cool thing about your archive? It keeps growing as you add new videos! Check out mine.

(Via Mefeedia)

surv0001

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a vid for vlog using minedmov from p2p.??

routine

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after all..

only nothing remains..

Dahroug Back on the Trail - News

Dahroug Back on the Trail - News
Here is some crack election day reporting from the Jimmy Olsen of the Vogel Family...
Article in Columbia Spectator, November 2, 2006 by Sara Vogel

Course Video Blogging Class

Video Blogging Class Teachers College

Watch this movie

thread#3

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Class assignment: "instructional video"

Well, some may find this funnier than the so-called "humorous video" I posted earlier. Actually, I started out wanting to make a longer & more serious one on how to scan, and collected all sorts of screen shots and even some video footage... Then I even found a program that would save screen-shots-in-motion. So I experimented with all these, and even made three videos--but none were satisfactory. Pressed for time, I went with this (and it is actually something I have to show students over and over) and, even as short as it is, it could stand some more work--getting the screen shots to show up clearly when compressed, etc.

Class assignment: humorous (?) video

Look, I was really feeling up the creek, not knowing what to do for this one. I mean, I know I have a sense of humor, but making a humorous video felt like it was way beyond my capabilities, so this is what I desperately put together--all done within the past 24 hours. Let's just say "I tried" and leave it at that--OK?

I had tremendous problems with some bits of sound clips coming out of nowhere. I think this may be due to the fact that I split clips up before extracting the audio--maybe if I had extracted the audio first it would have worked better.

At least for a beginner, these video clips--as short as they are--take a lot of time to make--a surprisingly large amount of time. How do people post these every day--or even every couple of days--and still have jobs/have lives?

And, please, won't somebody else in the class post one of their videos? I feel all alone out here!

Miles Adrian's essay on video blogs vs video in blogs

Did anyone else read this yet? If so, what did you think?

When I first signed up for this course, I imagined video blogs as perhaps being a forum where the blogger would post a video and the comments would consist of others responding to the posts with videos of their own--it was hard to imagine, I admit.

So this article struck a chord with me. I think that I am only at the point of making blogs with videos rather than making true video blogs--or, at least what Adrian would consider to be a video blog.

And I'd also LOVE to know how in the world he managed to put those links in that first video clip of his...

Class assignment: home video

This was also done using my "still" camera. The clip was taken in natural light in a Japanese restaurant on the lower East Side.

I've done a couple of other little videos for my vlog--one done with a regular digital video camera and yet another done with the still camera. The digital video camera certainly produces better quality videos but is not as convenient to carry around as my still camera. In these two other videos, I experimented with doing a sound track with Garage Band (my next job certainly won't be scoring soundtracks for movies) and with different ways of compressing the videos to show up best on the vlog. I couldn't get my iMovie to allow the expert settings Richard gave us in class, and after several experiments, I found that the default "web" settings produced the best video...

Class assignment: class video

This was made using my still camera--I had only one tiny little video clip of Richard and those classmates sitting closest to me at the end of class on Friday to work with. I took the picture of the clock in the lab the next day. I did the narration by talking into my PowerBook's built-in mic during the lunch break on Saturday.

getting the link working for videos

How can we get further instructions on how to link the uploaded videos to this blog? I will try using blip.tv but we were unable on Saturday to see the final linking process on blogger because the system was shut down. For now I have uploaded a test video to Archive.org but when the video is clicked on it goes to my ourmedia page without loading the video.
thanks!
alyson