Category — how to use the blog

Due to concerns about privacy on YouTube, I am suggesting that we embed videos directly to the blog. To do this, we MUST make our files smaller, or we will run out of storage space. This is pretty simple to do:

1. If you made your video in the older version of iMovie (06) we downloaded together in class, skip to step #4. If you did not, please download this for free at http://support.apple.com/downloads/iMovie_HD_6

2. Open iMovie06 and drag your movie file into the Clips board

3. Save your new movie file.

4. Select Share as “CD-ROM” Share>Quicktime from the toolbar, then choose Compress Movie For>Web Streaming.

5. Go to blog to write post > Choose “add media” in bar above text box (same as for podcasts) > Locate your newly saved movie file in Movies folder on hard drive > Select your file > Selecct “insert into post” > Save and Publish

Please let me know if you have any problems at lhorridge@gmail.com . The process is almost the same as uploading podcasts except that this time we need to make our files smaller.

I look forward to seeing your projects!

//Lynn

This is how you upload your podcast directly to the class eportfolio. 

1. Save podcast in Garageband to desktop by choosing “Share”, “Export Podcast to Disc”, and leave selected items as they are

2. Go to “Write Post” in the Eportfolio

2. Click on “Add media” above post box

3. Click on the second icon (looks like a sun), “add media”

4. Upload your file (it should be an .m4a if you saved it this way, but it doesn’t have to be)

5. Add text to your post if you like

6. Publish post – your podcast will show up as a link, and when you click the link the podcast will open and play.

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redsoxyankeesfan

Well we are back on line but unfortunately we lost all of the posts and comments since October 18. This feels like an eternity to me. So many pearls of wisdom, gone.

Once the melancholy passes we need to get back on line here. You need to post your blurbs, and your reviews if they went missing. I have saved copies of your comments on posts that I have made, and perhaps you have copies of others’ comments on your posts. So I think we can put back a lot of what disappeared. So, here’s what you need to do:

1. Make sure that your last review (review 2) is posted here, and if it isn’t post it again;
2. Post your latest blurb (don’t neglect to select the ‘Blurbs’ category when posting)
3. Leave your comments on the NYTimes Arts post
4. Leave your comments on the “The Way Things Go” post
5. If you have copies of others’ comments on your posts from anytime since October 18, please send them to me via email.
6. From now on, keep backup copies of your own comments and posts on your own computer, in the event that this mess happens again – no one has guaranteed that it won’t.

Thanks to Joyce for two more slick header photos – check them out!

And please send me as many more as you like – lhorridge@gmail.com.

//Lynn