Steve Ballard’s blog

Finally found a straightforward solution, via Google.Google copes with more video formats, with the additional significant benefit that the video appears within the blog, rather than on another site.

RoSLA video

When I go down the Presentation tab to Sidebar Widgets, I don’t seem to get a correspondence between the widgets I drag in and the site view.

Anyone got any suggestion?

I heard about Shropshire Education Advisory Service’s “IT for Learning” blog site yesterday, and just looked it up.

I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll.

(Although I added it in the normal way, it won’t display for some reason, so I’ve added it to the Web 2.0 blogroll)

If you rotate your camera to record in portrait mode, then you will need to rotate the clip to display it in the normal way. This is very easy in the latest version of QuickTime Pro.

I used Comic Life to create the PDF. Let me know if you like it – or how it might be better, or if there are other helpsheets you would find useful.

qtrotate_helpsheet.pdf

As with all teaching, the essence of a good lesson is in the preparation. I’ve just started using Comic Life, which is delightfully easy to use, but I jumped in without preparing the resources I needed to continue.

The learning objective I’d set for this exercise was to make a Comic Life page demonstrating how to use QuickTime to rotate a video through 90 degrees (I recently recorded some colleagues standing up, using the natty camera from the CLC; I rotated the camera to capture the full height of the colleagues, but when I came to play the video back, it was difficult to watch).

But I soon realised that the first task for my Comic Life task should have been to storyboard, and make sure I had all the images I needed beforehand.

Well, I just managed to get this far; I’m about to publish and see how easy it is.

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