amazon Streaming Live Video without Ads for Pennies I've been in search of a decent low cost video streaming solution for a long time now. It doesn't take long playing with Ustream and Livestream to realize that while the software running those systems is extremely user friendly and convenient, the ads they run are
development Encouraging Gravatar Use in Wordpress Multisite We're in the process of redesigning the layout and look of UMW Blogs and one of the features Martha Burtis has added is a stream of the 5 latests posts from the entire network. The plugin is pulling the user's Gravatar along with the title, author,
college The Myth of DIY U It's hard to learn this way; in fact, it's harder than going to college. The educational system as it is currently structured is intended to offer a set of short cuts - access to qualified practitioners, creation of custom peer networks, guided and scaffolded practice -
anniversary Reflecting on 20 years of the World Wide Web I grew up in a small town called Fairborn, Ohio and we didn't move to Virginia until 1993. I can remember my only interactions with a computer around that time being the one my dad had at work (he was a minister of a church) and how I
custom posts Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in Wordpress One of the greatest geek features of Wordpress 3.0 is custom post types. Custom post types takes Wordpress from just a simple blog/page CMS to literally anything you want it to be. Instead of drafting a "post" you can create a "video" with it&
comments Alternative Commenting Systems: Video Responses I've been thinking a lot recently about ways to engage discussion on a website while still requiring people to "own their words" so to speak. Anonymous comment forms encourage and embolden users to react and respond with no regard to others. Ever read the comment section
Sesame Seeds and the Race to the Bottom This story came up today while talking to my brother about the declining quality of their day care center. I can't remember where I first heard the story so you get my version of it, complete with profane language. Please escort your 9-year-old away from my blog and
growl Live Text in Wirecast using Growl and Desktop Presenter It began with me wondering how I could provide more engagement during DTLT Today episodes. Monitoring a chat feed can be difficult and realistically most people watching the show live are doing so because they follow us on Twitter. Monitoring a Twitter feed is simple enough with a laptop or
ipad Remote Wirecast control using the iPad Recently we at DTLT have been cutting our teeth on live video production through the Summer of Oblivion ds106TV series and more recently with DTLT Today. The more we play with these tools the more we realize how powerful a low-cost video streaming solution is to the idea of a
DTLT Today After wondering out loud today with Jim whether people have the time for podcasts anymore, we started thinking about what we could do to continue honing our video production chops. Broadcasting and online video are things that I see great value in for educators and the barriers are being removed
ds106 ds106 Web Story As chance would have it I was browsing my RSS feeds yesterday and came across a link to a web app called "Bolt" on Zac Chase's blog and it's the perfect tool for creating these web stories. It works similar to Firebug but makes
copyright The C Word I always know I need to blog about something when I've reached more than 5 tweets on a subject and still feel passionate about something. 140 characters makes any sort of civil discourse difficult, but the beauty to me is that it pushes me to flesh out my
ds106 Tutorial: Creating an Album Cover With the Summer of Oblivion course technically only being Monday - Thursday there were many of us left wondering what would happen on ds106TV on Fridays. While it appears Dr. Oblivion has gone missing I figured I would jump on and broadcast a quick tutorial on how to create one
ds106 Be Our Guest This scene/song has tons of repetition, probably easier for animators to work with the scenes. I swear I'm going to stop for the day. I can quit anytime, I don't need help. Really.
ds106 Falkor Ok, this one started off at 11MB, I pared it down to 3, and then did layer masking to cut it in half again. 1.6MB isn't exactly small, but it's worth it for Falkor nodding in approval.
ds106 November, 2019 Finally started playing around with masking in Gimp (did anyone do a tutorial on this? I searched and didn't find one). Really this scene from the opening of Blade Runner didn't need much masking but I'm a perfectionist to a fault and wanted it
ds106 Let the Summer of Oblivion Begin Readers of my blog are no strangers to the great joy I get from the madness that is ds106. It's time to fire it up again (did it ever stop?!). The Summer of Oblivion begins June 20th and as an opening salvo I've created my animated
facebook Fakebook It's easy for me to track the day I deleted my Facebook account. The President of the United States announced that Osama Bin Laden had been found and killed during a mission the night before. I woke up the next day to find the news all over Twitter
conference Conference Fatigue I've had the opportunity over the past several years to attend plenty of conferences. Typically I've managed to get my employer to foot the bill for them and see them as professional development (and often there is no doubt an element of growth and learning at
ds106 Mutatis mutandis Today I accepted a position as an Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Mary Washington's Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. It's almost impossible for me to convey the emotion behind that first sentence, because in many ways this is literally a dream, years in
DesignAssignments The Big Hip Hop Tutorial One of my recommendations in the ds106 Toolbox for folks who can't afford Photoshop (and don't really need to) is a website called Aviary. Although I refer to it in terms of a photo editor, their suite of tools really does a whole lot more including
ds106 The ds106 Toolbox Looking back on the large amount of work created during the ds106 course and thinking about the reflective advice given by myself and others, it occurred to me that along the way a lot of us have blogged our process as well as the final results. Information like that is
ds106 To Future ds106ers I've thought long and hard about what I could say to convey why this class is important. Why it is simultaneously the greatest and most meaningful course you can complete, and at the same time the most grueling. There's a lot of great advice out there
ds106 Possibilities for DS106TV After just a few weeks of the TV experiment going live there has been a whole lot of experimentation and it's generally becoming a fun playground to explore what's possible with a medium like this. The karaoke night action was fun (and possibly painful for the
