Post for my students

Here is the post from today's class

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Here is my video

my animoto video

added from desktop

my link to the course site

Video and voice

Being present in a recorded video in open and digital spaces is scary and often leaves me feeling uncomfortable. I return to the video and ask myself how I can do better, how I can speak more clearly or what I should have done differently. Being on-screen, both live and recorded makes me nervous. But the more I do it, the more comfortable I am becoming with my voice and face on video.

I have been recorded several times as a result of my Virtually Connecting experiences. My first and only time being the virtual host was nerve-wracking since I was also hosting a workshop at the same time. It turned out to be the best of both experiences. Here is my Virtually Connecting hosting debut.

Here is the blog post I wrote after this experience titled 'An Inukshuk Moment - Listen Deeply'.

Here is my test for embedding video from Vimeo.


THE POWER OF IDEAS - to change the world! from Jason Silva on Vimeo.

Voice and video in education

Today we are playing with recording voices with Voki. Here is the Paper Bag Princess using her voice.

Making a Screencast

This past weekend I explored and played with Quicktime to create a screencast. The focus of the video was on using three different word cloud creators. This came from a question from one of my students about how to use the suggested word cloud generators so she could make a word cloud for her blog.

Since Wordle can sometimes cause issues when the latest Java plug-in is not installed, I suggested using another tool such as ABCya or Word-It-Out. All of these tools are free and do not require a sign in or account to use. A favourite tool of mine is Tagul, which is free but requires a log-in or sign-up. Worth it since it creates some very interesting word cloud images including ones set to an image that you upload. This coffeecup image is one I created. Scroll over the image words to see what happens.

Created with Tagul.com

My Shoe Selfie

If my shoe could talk, what would it say? How would it describe me? What stories could it tell about adventures experienced or miseries endured? How did my shoe come to be with me? What is our story?

My shoe is a hiking and travelling shoe. It's tasted the dust and dew at Machu Picchu. It's a long standing shoe while waiting in airports. It's a go-to shoe when trekking the trails.