Adventures in Educational Technology

TCEA 2011: Moviemaker Session

February 10 2011 by Stuart in tcea |No Comments

This morning I casually got out of bed for another great day at TCEA 2011. I arrived at the convention center around 7:45. At 9am or so, I received a call from David Phillips, the Area 8 TCEA director. He asked me how familiar I was with Windows Live Moviemaker. Then he asked me if I would be ok doing a 90 minute workshop at 11:30 on the very topic. I agreed. This post is not only for those attendees, but for anyone interested in making videos in Windows.

Below are a few areas that I discussed today.

Sites I mentioned:

tooble.tv – This freeware product will allow you to download any video from Youtube. Just recently they added a few restrictions to the free version, but for $10 the paid version is well worth it. With the pro version users can install on up to five machines, download videos from a pleathora of sites including teachertube.com, download audio only versions, and download as many videos as they wish.
savevid.com – This cool site is similar to tooble, but it is web based. Once you copy the URL of the youtube video you want, paste into the URL box in savevid. Once that is done, the site will give users a link to download several different qualities and file formats including full HD versions.
Windows Live Essentials 2011 – This package is how you get Windows Live Moviemaker. Download this on any Windows 7 machine and you will have the option to install many different pieces of software including Moviemaker.

Some Tutorial Videos
Windows Live Moviemaker Tutorial

Quick Tutorial

Another Tutorial Video

One More

Unfortuanetly, green screen is not an option in Windows Live Movie Maker, but if you have XP (many of you do), then below is a tutorial on how to green screen with the XP version

Green Screen Tutorial

Feel free to email me with any questions! stuartburt(at)mac.com.

TCEA 2011: Wednesday

February 10 2011 by Stuart in Uncategorized |No Comments

Hey Folks! I have had a great day at the TCEA convention. This morning started with the General Session with Leigh Anne Tuohy, the mom from “The Blind Side”. Having seen the movie, then seeing her in person makes me realize how good of a job that Sandra Bullock did of portraying this person. Its almost like you took the demeanor of Sandra Bullock in the movie, and changed the face. This lady was very outspoken and very opinionated. The room was packed with everyone wanting to see what she had to say. One thing that I didnt like was when she said: ”You can still teach without all of this tech stuff if you have too”. She is right, but I dont think I would want to. Below is a video of a similar speech that she did. TCEA has not posted the video from this morning, but if they do, I will let you know.

Sessions:

I have been to a few sessions today and so far there is a few central themes. A few things I have noticed:

Everyone has an iPad. I have never been a proponent of the iPad, so I have a one-sided perspective; but its the new fad. The iPad is like the “Pokemon” of my generation.
Its no longer “bring your laptop”, its “bring your device”. The information can flow to any device, not just laptops. I have been using my cell phone for the majority of the time that I have been here.
Web 2.0 tools are hot! I have seen more and more things that I have never heard of. You can see some of those tools below.
Student use of personally owned devices. More and more schools are allowing and encouraging students to bring their own devices on campus. This includes cell phones, laptops, slates, and idevices.

Here are a few of the Web 2.0 tools that have seen so far:

myfakewall.com
corkboard.me
quiqr.it
citrify.com
glogster.com
google.com/squared
voki.com
twiddla.com
openclipart.org

These are just a few of what I have seen. I will be posting more later!

Now for the video:

TCEA 2011

February 7 2011 by Stuart in tcea |No Comments

Well, its that time of year again. The annual TCEA Convention is every February and this year looks to be even bigger and better. This years theme is “no limits”. Last year over 12,000 people attended and this year they are planning for even more.

As this week progresses, the Chapel Hill TCEA team will be taking pictures, video, and notes to bring back home. I will be posting as much as possible to keep you informed and apprised of all of the cool stuff we see. I hope to update this page a few times a day, so come back often.

This years keynote speaker is Leigh Ann Tuohy; the mother portrayed in “The Blind Side”. TCEA will be posting a live stream of this event. I will put it up on the blog as soon as they post it. It will be at 9am on Wednesday. If they put up a recording of it, I will post that as well.

Thats all for now. Talk to you soon.

Gmail Tutorial

February 3 2011 by Stuart in Google |No Comments

At Chapel Hill we are in the process of migrating our email system to Gmail form eChalk. The video below will show users the basic functionality of Gmail and how to forward your eChalk email to your new @chisddevils.com email.

New Posts

February 2 2011 by Stuart in Uncategorized |No Comments

I realize that I have not posted in very long time, but have no fear. TCEA is right around the corner, and I will be posting lots of stuff for you very soon! Stay tuned for updates and info from the Austin Convention center!