Class Agenda: Oct 22, 2009

Let’s talk about video blogging

According to Wikipedia, Videoblogging is:

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog is a blog that comprises video. Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.

Vlogs also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using RSS syndication format, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Though many vlogs are collaborative efforts, the majority of vlogs and vlog entries are authored by individuals.

Some related links:

• Josh Leo’s Wedding
• My video

What is a video blog?

• A vlog is a blog with posts that contain video and uses the structure of the blog as its content management system.
• A vlog is not a movie on YouTube or Blip or a video anywhere else, or a Youtube or Blip channel. Typically the vlog contains both video and related text that puts the video in context.
• A vlog is episodic and personal.
• A vlog, like all blogs, is a channel in reverse chronological order.
• A vlog usually allows comments and usually has an associated RSS feed.
• Each episode on a vlog has a web accessible URL.
• A vlog can often be converted into a video podcast.

Sample Video Blog (vlog)

• Josh Leo

List of vlog posts:

• STEM Post
• Story of the Swami
• Train vlog entry

Mid-Term

InDesign CS3 Mid-Term Project

Read: “We the Media,” by Dan Gillmor

• Please read Chapters 4, 5 and 6 through the end of Chapter 6. This is up through page 135 in the printed O’Reilly edition of the Dan Gillmor book. Label this post “We the Media 2″
• Do a post on this blog (or put a link on this blog to a post on your own blog) related to that reading indicating what the author said and why you agree or disagree with the author.

The following projects have been posted to the server:

aguilar, anaya, bifulco, chan, elston, ereso, gill, gonzalez, heller, macdonald, makris, sato, tang, yangj, yangs, young

Due Today

Lynda Assignment
View iMovie HD 6 + iDVD 6 Essential Training, First Four Chapters and all the video segments in them. Here are the titles of those chapters:

1. Getting Started
2. Shooting Great Video
3. iMovie ’06 Interface Essentials
4. Importing Video

Today’s Lab

[Handout Here]

iMovie Lab 1
If you cannot think of anything to say, read the following:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

If you cannot make it to class for this lab, please see this post.