Steve Ballard's blog http://sballard.edublogs.org Part of the Harigey Transforming Teachers Programme Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:25:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Blogging videos http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/18/blogging-videos/ http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/18/blogging-videos/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:23:17 +0000 Steve Ballard http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/18/blogging-videos/ 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.

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]]> http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/30/feed/ 0 Arranging Sidebars http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/05/arranging-sidebars/ http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/05/arranging-sidebars/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:43:50 +0000 Steve Ballard http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/06/05/arranging-sidebars/ 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?

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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)

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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

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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.

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Then

Originally uploaded by Steve Ballard.

]]> http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/04/19/then/feed/ 0 Is there anybody there? http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/03/30/is-there-anybody-there/ http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/03/30/is-there-anybody-there/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:52:44 +0000 Steve Ballard http://sballard.edublogs.org/2007/03/30/is-there-anybody-there/ Well, I just managed to get this far; I’m about to publish and see how easy it is.

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