Today I was determined to learn to dub video from VHS videotapes to DVD using our new DVD/VHS player/recorder. It went pretty well considering I still think that DVD formats need better explanation!
After "moving" the video to the DVD, it must be finalized but before I did that I wanted to see if it played in my computer. No, it did not so I brought it back to the DVD player/recorder and followed the procedure to finalize it. Now it will play in all my computers using Windows Media player.
I used an older version of Adobe Premier Elements to see if I could get it off the DVD to create a "real" movie of it that I could play on my iPod or post to a video hosting site. I have still not conquered that but I will get to it.
A fun part in capturing a still frame to make a single photo. Check out my hand. Camera people sure like to get close up! That's why you are not seeing my face.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Dylan Out for a Walk
Dylan Out for a Walk
Originally uploaded by midgefrazel
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Flip Video Camcorder
I'd heard so much about this great lightweight Flip video camcorder that I just had to SEE it for myself. It's the ultra version that takes 60 minutes of video and stores it until you send it to your computer via the USB connector.
I can't wait to try it out and make some cool videos. Don't you SEE how great this is going to be?
I can't wait to try it out and make some cool videos. Don't you SEE how great this is going to be?
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Higher Education and Web 2.0 Investigations
Today, a pre-service teacher, named Meg, who is taking an online course at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, left a comment on my recent blog post, "Phone Books Dead?". In the blog she is writing as an assignment for her course, she writes about her experience of noticing that this course she is taking online is proving to be more work than the other courses she has taken previously.
This is interesting since as I have recently observed that the majority of attendees at my "Frazel Features" at Tappedin.org have been students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate classes where part of the assignment is to participate in an "online chat". As technology as been a large part of my professional life for the last 25 years, I do wonder how long it will be before higher education, promotes the new tools of technology and requires (gasp!) that students be competent and ready to use them in the classroom.
I posted a comment on this student's blog and read her postings and enjoyed her photo (she's blonde, too!) and profile. I wonder how many other students in her class had a response from the person they posted their comments to?
If not, why are we doing this?
By the way, ironically, the phone books are being delivered to my town this week, proving that the phone book is not dead; just obsolete!
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This is interesting since as I have recently observed that the majority of attendees at my "Frazel Features" at Tappedin.org have been students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate classes where part of the assignment is to participate in an "online chat". As technology as been a large part of my professional life for the last 25 years, I do wonder how long it will be before higher education, promotes the new tools of technology and requires (gasp!) that students be competent and ready to use them in the classroom.
I posted a comment on this student's blog and read her postings and enjoyed her photo (she's blonde, too!) and profile. I wonder how many other students in her class had a response from the person they posted their comments to?
If not, why are we doing this?
By the way, ironically, the phone books are being delivered to my town this week, proving that the phone book is not dead; just obsolete!
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Midge Frazel
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