Ok, 2nd try.
I think I've got the embed code now.
Hopefully this will work better or replace the link to the website.
-Regen
Monday, February 28, 2011
Hello,
Hopefully this works. I've recorded a podcast demo using an audio recorder on my computer. I then wanted to embed this sound clip within a blog post. I then went to the site 'podomatic' and set up an account. I was able to upload my podcast recording and the site gave me a link.
http://schmidt-r.podomatic.com/entry/2011-02-28T23_30_12-08_00
I will post this and see what it looks like. I want to have it embedded so there's no link so if this doesn't do that, then I'll find a different way to do it.
Thanks for your patience.
-Regen
Hopefully this works. I've recorded a podcast demo using an audio recorder on my computer. I then wanted to embed this sound clip within a blog post. I then went to the site 'podomatic' and set up an account. I was able to upload my podcast recording and the site gave me a link.
http://schmidt-r.podomatic.com/entry/2011-02-28T23_30_12-08_00
I will post this and see what it looks like. I want to have it embedded so there's no link so if this doesn't do that, then I'll find a different way to do it.
Thanks for your patience.
-Regen
Monday, February 14, 2011
Blog #3: Social Bookmarking sites....
Blog #3: Social Bookmarking Sites (Delicious).
Firstly, I watched ‘social bookmarking in plain English’ on youtube. This video clip was very useful in justifying the use of an application such as delicious. The link to the video is … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc
From what I gathered from the video, ‘bookmarking’ refers to the saving of good or useful websites on your internet browser. Though this process can clutter up your ‘favourites’ section if you are bookmarking a lot of sites. And these bookmarks are specific to a particular computer, meaning you can only view your ‘favourites’ or bookmarks on that one computer. Along comes social bookmarking sites such as ‘delicious’ and grants users a free webpage to store these bookmarks. This makes a neater job of storing a bunch of useful sites and it also allows the users to access these bookmarks from any computer with internet access.
I then visited the delicious website and set up an account. The website prompted the user to either make a completely new account, or log in from a yahoo user account, or even login from an existing facebook account. It’s amazing how all of these internet applications are interconnected and one user account can establish accounts on all of these sites. I set up an account using my facebook account. The link to my delicious page is the following http://www.delicious.com/2be9026849256c3e8964b1dc6d7ad2ed
On a side note, I had previously posted the link to my bookmark page on my blog site. To include that same link on this blog post I used the copy and paste function. When I pasted the web address into this report, nothing appeared. It took me a while to realise that within my blog the font is coloured white so when something is copied from it and pasted into a document with a white background, nothing appears. One must select the pasted information ‘blindly’ and change its colour.
The one aspect that makes these sites social is that each users bookmark page is public. Everyone can therefore see which sites you find useful and you can see which other sites that people find useful. This feature doesn’t really make sense unless you know the person and know their interests. From an educational perspective, if you could view the bookmarks of a fellow teacher who also taught the same subjects as you, then you could potentially benefit from sharing bookmarks. In a wider scope, an entire school could sign up for a school-based delicious account to keep track of more general websites that teachers could benefit from.
Our school (Earl Marriott) is currently in debate with the school district over changing the bell schedule to a 5-block day in order to accommodate our 1900+ students. So much technical and legal information is associated within this proposal and our staff union representative is trying hard to keep up with keeping the staff up to date with our/their rights. Instead of attaching documents to emails he could potentially create a school-wide delicious site and bookmark all the pages that he is referencing and presenting to the staff. That way, the staff could access the information more readily and not be limited to the information our staff representative presents us with. If instead, our staff representative presented us with a bookmark site that shows various articles and more information for those who desire more descriptive details, then users could decide the quantity of information they read.
For more ideas on ways to use the delicious bookmark site, I visited the website http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-use-delicious-social-bookmarking/ in which Kristi Hines offered up 8 ways to use delicious. Kristi brought up some good ideas and I especially enjoyed the idea regarding the creation of a company delicious site for employees to see all the bookmarked sites that could yield good information. I immediately thought of a building contractor and the website links to all the reliable trades companies that worked out great and not-so-great. A contractor could use a bookmark page for future reference of who to hire and this list could be shared with other contractors or companies requiring services.
Educationally this idea of a school-wide bookmark site could be used for purposes such as giving parents links to available tutors or learning centres that work best for students. Also, as educational cutbacks become a yearly reality, teachers could use a social bookmark site to keep track of sites that offer competitive prices on constantly required school supplies such as overhead transparencies, projector bulbs, and photocopy paper etc.
Firstly, I watched ‘social bookmarking in plain English’ on youtube. This video clip was very useful in justifying the use of an application such as delicious. The link to the video is … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc
From what I gathered from the video, ‘bookmarking’ refers to the saving of good or useful websites on your internet browser. Though this process can clutter up your ‘favourites’ section if you are bookmarking a lot of sites. And these bookmarks are specific to a particular computer, meaning you can only view your ‘favourites’ or bookmarks on that one computer. Along comes social bookmarking sites such as ‘delicious’ and grants users a free webpage to store these bookmarks. This makes a neater job of storing a bunch of useful sites and it also allows the users to access these bookmarks from any computer with internet access.
I then visited the delicious website and set up an account. The website prompted the user to either make a completely new account, or log in from a yahoo user account, or even login from an existing facebook account. It’s amazing how all of these internet applications are interconnected and one user account can establish accounts on all of these sites. I set up an account using my facebook account. The link to my delicious page is the following http://www.delicious.com/2be9026849256c3e8964b1dc6d7ad2ed
On a side note, I had previously posted the link to my bookmark page on my blog site. To include that same link on this blog post I used the copy and paste function. When I pasted the web address into this report, nothing appeared. It took me a while to realise that within my blog the font is coloured white so when something is copied from it and pasted into a document with a white background, nothing appears. One must select the pasted information ‘blindly’ and change its colour.
The one aspect that makes these sites social is that each users bookmark page is public. Everyone can therefore see which sites you find useful and you can see which other sites that people find useful. This feature doesn’t really make sense unless you know the person and know their interests. From an educational perspective, if you could view the bookmarks of a fellow teacher who also taught the same subjects as you, then you could potentially benefit from sharing bookmarks. In a wider scope, an entire school could sign up for a school-based delicious account to keep track of more general websites that teachers could benefit from.
Our school (Earl Marriott) is currently in debate with the school district over changing the bell schedule to a 5-block day in order to accommodate our 1900+ students. So much technical and legal information is associated within this proposal and our staff union representative is trying hard to keep up with keeping the staff up to date with our/their rights. Instead of attaching documents to emails he could potentially create a school-wide delicious site and bookmark all the pages that he is referencing and presenting to the staff. That way, the staff could access the information more readily and not be limited to the information our staff representative presents us with. If instead, our staff representative presented us with a bookmark site that shows various articles and more information for those who desire more descriptive details, then users could decide the quantity of information they read.
For more ideas on ways to use the delicious bookmark site, I visited the website http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-use-delicious-social-bookmarking/ in which Kristi Hines offered up 8 ways to use delicious. Kristi brought up some good ideas and I especially enjoyed the idea regarding the creation of a company delicious site for employees to see all the bookmarked sites that could yield good information. I immediately thought of a building contractor and the website links to all the reliable trades companies that worked out great and not-so-great. A contractor could use a bookmark page for future reference of who to hire and this list could be shared with other contractors or companies requiring services.
Educationally this idea of a school-wide bookmark site could be used for purposes such as giving parents links to available tutors or learning centres that work best for students. Also, as educational cutbacks become a yearly reality, teachers could use a social bookmark site to keep track of sites that offer competitive prices on constantly required school supplies such as overhead transparencies, projector bulbs, and photocopy paper etc.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
My Delicious account link....
Hey all,
I created a bookmark account on the www.delicious.com website.
The URL is below....
http://www.delicious.com/2be9026849256c3e8964b1dc6d7ad2ed
I only have a few bookmarks, but it will definately get more added to it in the future.
-Regen
I created a bookmark account on the www.delicious.com website.
The URL is below....
http://www.delicious.com/2be9026849256c3e8964b1dc6d7ad2ed
I only have a few bookmarks, but it will definately get more added to it in the future.
-Regen
Monday, February 7, 2011
Blog #2 Post: Youtube and its features....
Hello,
Over 2 billion youtube videos are viewed per day, and users upload 24 hours of video footage every minute (from http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet). Youtube is a website that allows registered users a place to upload, store, and share video clips. It can be described as the ‘flickr’ of the video world. The nice aspect of youtube is that it also allows users access to the exact html link to where each video is stored. Like the flickr website, this aspect of youtubes website is great for embedding video footage into any type of web document you could imagine.
Before researching youtube for this blog entry, I previously would visit youtube to see tv highlights that I had heard about but couldn’t access because my wife and I don’t have cable tv. I’ve currently watched so many canucks highlights that a regular speed hockey game seems too slow for me now…..I just want to skip to the highlight reel. Lol. I think that this type of easy access is a key element in youtube’s success. The download time is so fast that it delivers what users want in a speed that’s not boring. It does seem ironic though that in an age of lcd, led, plasma tv’s and high definition standards, that youtube users accept average quality video. I guess it depends on the age and components of your computer as well as the type of video recording equipment the ‘uploader’ used, but some of the videos are quite ‘grainy’ and of poor quality but no one seems to mind. Youtube does offer a ‘full-screen’ button to enlarge the video size but this only magnifies poor quality video footage. The better quality of video does mean larger file types so maybe youtube keeps the file size lower and the quality lower so that it can boast having billions of hours of video footage available with a click of a mouse.
It was quite easy to set up a youtube account. Like all the other web 2.0 tools, youtube allowed me to create an account based of my existing ‘google’ email account that I use for flickr, blogger, and google sites. One gets a good idea of just how many users are registered on youtube when you try to make a unique screen name and realise most of the straight forward names are already taken. New user names must include symbols and numbers to be accepted as unique. After creating an account I made a few short videos with my Nikon D90 digital camera. I then plugged the camera memory card into my computer and downloaded the video files. The video files were then uploaded to my youtube account and are now stored on my account.
My three videos were of a record playing on my record player. I tried to link the videos to the portion of the math 8/9 curriculum that focuses on symmetry, more specifically rotational symmetry and the topics ‘angle of rotation’ and ‘degree of symmetry’. These videos would act as warm-up activities as we entered into the symmetry section. In the future I thought of taking an old record and drawing designs on it so students could better keep track of the rotations.
After making and posting a few short videos using my camera, I wanted to see how to embed these videos within a website of blog page. I then went to youtube and typed in ‘how to embed youtube videos’. From the results page, I clicked on the first video entry that matched my search description. The video I clicked on was a 4-minute video showing exactly how to embed youtube videos in web pages and blogs.
The major key was finding and copying the source code in html format. This was a very similar process to embedding flickr photo slideshows from the previous exercise. This youtube video also went over changing the size of the video as well. Not the file size of the video, but the actual display size of the video screen that would appear on the web page. Within the html code page there were two, three-digit numbers that related to the height and width of the screen size. The video also showed how to insert some html code within the web page so that the video would play automatically as soon as the web page was accessed. On the html screen of a given webpage, just prior to the words ‘&’ one could insert the phrase ‘&autoplay=1’ and your youtube video would start automatically on your webpage or blog. Special thanks to ‘Bummarketer’ who created the youtube video that I watched to learn how this task was completed. The youtube link to his video was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSz_a_yx9hA
The ‘autoplay’ feature is a great ideal for some applications but I’m not exaclty sure how it would work on a blog page where there’s more than one youtube video. Would all the videos start at once? Would the most recent video start and then be followed by the most recent video after that? I will definitely research this more in the future of my youtube use.
Please see my embedded videos on the blog post below.
Thanks. -Regen
Over 2 billion youtube videos are viewed per day, and users upload 24 hours of video footage every minute (from http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet). Youtube is a website that allows registered users a place to upload, store, and share video clips. It can be described as the ‘flickr’ of the video world. The nice aspect of youtube is that it also allows users access to the exact html link to where each video is stored. Like the flickr website, this aspect of youtubes website is great for embedding video footage into any type of web document you could imagine.
Before researching youtube for this blog entry, I previously would visit youtube to see tv highlights that I had heard about but couldn’t access because my wife and I don’t have cable tv. I’ve currently watched so many canucks highlights that a regular speed hockey game seems too slow for me now…..I just want to skip to the highlight reel. Lol. I think that this type of easy access is a key element in youtube’s success. The download time is so fast that it delivers what users want in a speed that’s not boring. It does seem ironic though that in an age of lcd, led, plasma tv’s and high definition standards, that youtube users accept average quality video. I guess it depends on the age and components of your computer as well as the type of video recording equipment the ‘uploader’ used, but some of the videos are quite ‘grainy’ and of poor quality but no one seems to mind. Youtube does offer a ‘full-screen’ button to enlarge the video size but this only magnifies poor quality video footage. The better quality of video does mean larger file types so maybe youtube keeps the file size lower and the quality lower so that it can boast having billions of hours of video footage available with a click of a mouse.
It was quite easy to set up a youtube account. Like all the other web 2.0 tools, youtube allowed me to create an account based of my existing ‘google’ email account that I use for flickr, blogger, and google sites. One gets a good idea of just how many users are registered on youtube when you try to make a unique screen name and realise most of the straight forward names are already taken. New user names must include symbols and numbers to be accepted as unique. After creating an account I made a few short videos with my Nikon D90 digital camera. I then plugged the camera memory card into my computer and downloaded the video files. The video files were then uploaded to my youtube account and are now stored on my account.
My three videos were of a record playing on my record player. I tried to link the videos to the portion of the math 8/9 curriculum that focuses on symmetry, more specifically rotational symmetry and the topics ‘angle of rotation’ and ‘degree of symmetry’. These videos would act as warm-up activities as we entered into the symmetry section. In the future I thought of taking an old record and drawing designs on it so students could better keep track of the rotations.
After making and posting a few short videos using my camera, I wanted to see how to embed these videos within a website of blog page. I then went to youtube and typed in ‘how to embed youtube videos’. From the results page, I clicked on the first video entry that matched my search description. The video I clicked on was a 4-minute video showing exactly how to embed youtube videos in web pages and blogs.
The major key was finding and copying the source code in html format. This was a very similar process to embedding flickr photo slideshows from the previous exercise. This youtube video also went over changing the size of the video as well. Not the file size of the video, but the actual display size of the video screen that would appear on the web page. Within the html code page there were two, three-digit numbers that related to the height and width of the screen size. The video also showed how to insert some html code within the web page so that the video would play automatically as soon as the web page was accessed. On the html screen of a given webpage, just prior to the words ‘&’ one could insert the phrase ‘&autoplay=1’ and your youtube video would start automatically on your webpage or blog. Special thanks to ‘Bummarketer’ who created the youtube video that I watched to learn how this task was completed. The youtube link to his video was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSz_a_yx9hA
The ‘autoplay’ feature is a great ideal for some applications but I’m not exaclty sure how it would work on a blog page where there’s more than one youtube video. Would all the videos start at once? Would the most recent video start and then be followed by the most recent video after that? I will definitely research this more in the future of my youtube use.
Please see my embedded videos on the blog post below.
Thanks. -Regen
embeded youtube videos.....
Hey all,
Here's a few short videos I made with my Nikon D90. I then uploded them to youtube, copied the embed code and pasted them here. Hope this works....lol...
Here's a few short videos I made with my Nikon D90. I then uploded them to youtube, copied the embed code and pasted them here. Hope this works....lol...
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