CUNY Macaulay Honors College Seminar Four – Baruch Spring 2009

Diana’s Panorama Podcast

Here’s an easier way to rip the audio track from a Youtube video:

1. Copy the link of the Youtube video. For example, I’ll take this one. Paste that link into the text box on this site.
2. Change the dropdown menu from ‘AVI for Windows (DivX + MP3)’ to ‘MP3 (audio only)’
3. Press Start. It should now say ‘Connecting to Server,’ then ‘Resolving Video URL’ and then proceed to convert. Get a coffee while it converts for about 40-45 secs. or more depending on the length of the clip. It should download to your desktop (or other selected folder) in .mp3 format
4. Go into whatever program you’re using to make the mashup, and drag the mp3 file in as you would any other track, or alternatively select it from the Media Browser.

If you want to download the video as well, I don’t recommend using that site. Go here to get something called Greasemonkey and then here and click the Install button (and then confirm) for something called YousableTube that will put a link to directly download the video right next to any video.

Podcasts are looking great!!!

One clarification on an uploading step: Once you’ve uploaded your podcast to the “Media Libray”, it will become a part of all the media that has been uploaded and available to be added to all posts. To choose available media from the media library, be sure to click on “media library” tab once you’ve clicked on the add media icon in the post toolbar.

Notice that there are also tabs there for you to upload media from your computer or  a URL.

It may sound confusing at first, but I can see you are getting the hang of it already!

//Lynn

Panorama Model Podcast

Found this article this morning when looking for the link of our blog and found it very relevant to our current and past class discussions:

http://nymag.com/realestate/features/2016/17143/

The article states, “In 2016, we won’t be able to be so parochial anymore—one Times Square isn’t going to be enough to fulfill the entertainment needs of that bigger, younger, more diverse population, and you’ll be talking about the lights on 125th Street.”

^ I think this is attributed to our generation’s need for more.  Studies show that our generation are likely to change our jobs five times over 2-3 years because we need to feel challenged and will constantly move around until our needs are met.  The same pertains to the above statement’s example of entertainment: Times Square will eventually lose its appeal.  With the rapid advancement of technology, change is constantly happening.

I am also posting a link for a youtube video on the progression of technology, it’s really neat (!) and also relevant to our class discussions.

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