Lisa's ds106 experiment

More with animation

llane — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:53:36 +0000

Continuing the project, and also posted on my online teaching blog, is this Blabberize. Blabberize wants you to do the speaking, so using Snapz Pro X, I recorded the audio from the GoAnimate. Then I converted it to mp3 in Audacity, and uploaded it to Blabberize. The result, Scott Lo told me, wasn’t viewable on iPad, so I did what everyone does who can’t get things to work – uploaded to YouTube.

This also uploaded to YouTube, a whole thing in GoAnimate (which I had to record with Snapz since they don’t let you save with the free account):

Plotagon and Gilgamesh

llane — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:14:00 +0000

The software is Plotagon, which is free and in beta. It was shared with me by Tom Hodgers, a member of the POT Cert class, because I was looking for a replacement for the now defunct Xtranormal. I ran it on Mac OS 10.6 even though it requires 10.7. Then I uploaded to Vimeo, until I realized they (still) don’t have captions. So I uploaded to YouTube, put in the script for the new transcribing service, and then used a special embed code (cc_load_policy=1) to force the captions to show.

I liked it enough to make it my own Video Assignment (#1225).

More on the pedagogy at my other blog…

Shakespearean LOLcat

llane — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:49:25 +0000

I saw some of these from Laura Gibbs (she also posts great Latin LOLcats) and just had to make one. The idea is to take a Shakespeare quotation combined with a cat pic. I’m adding it as a Visual Assignment.

ds106 Daily Create Challenge (18)

llane — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:45:43 +0000

A limerick about a very famous person (via cogdog). OK!

One should not ever disparage
the Queen as she rides in her carriage
she’s a symbol of wealth
and in excellent health
she signed to approve same-sex marriage

The Garden

llane — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:25:05 +0000

Yes, we have some bananas – well, a few.	Up and coming pole beans (Kentucky Blue, I think)
Suyo cucumber from the nursery.	Seascape Strawberries without visitors.
Italian sunflower.	Yellow Pear tomato.

TDC: photo of attraction (shoes)

llane — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:43:00 +0000

TDC: Flipping decibels for the 1812 Overture

llane — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:49:00 +0000

It just kinda begged to be done.

1812 Overture by LisaMLane

TDC: Five Technologies I Wouldn’t Want to Be Without

llane — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:23:00 +0000

This one was a pain. You would think we’d have found better ways to synchronize slides and audio for upload to YouTube, but nooooooo. I used Audacity for audio, then opened audio in Quicktime Pro and added the images to each piece of audio (Add Selection and Scale). No big deal, but YouTube didn’t like the .mov result, even though it was in H264 and everything. Had to export as avi to get YouTube to accept it, reducing image quality.

TDC: Fairy Tale Debt Consolidation

llane — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:27:00 +0000

Continuing to catch up, this one was inspired by @jeffmason’s wonderful ad for medieval indulgences. Music by justkidink at freesound.org.

Fairy Tale Debt Consolidation by LisaMLane

What else would be on Channel ds106?

llane — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:09:00 +0000