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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm obsessing about screencasts - I'm learning, creating, making mistakes, and even beginning to like this rabbit I jumped down. I learned this from early days in music school (and art school) -- you listened to music or viewed art and analyzed what you were seeing or hearing. I need to do the same for screencasts.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Finding Good Quality Music Sources Isn't Impossible. Trade Off: What value does music add?

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Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). A) The Hollywood Movie B) Home movies to document something important. You can create screencasts using both approaches. Is there a way?

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Forget Coffee Spoons: I Can Now Measure Out My Life With Facebook Status Updates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first is “self-expression,” which means your friends will know a lot more about what you read, what music you listen to, and even what you cook. I was curious what nonprofit colleagues were thinking. Wendy Harman was curious about what the implications were for branded pages and John Haydon posted the above screencast.

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. You can combine clips, cut clips, add a title or music. At the Packard Foundation, the IT department rolls out new equipment on a pilot, experimental basis. So, this is one of items and I'm getting a chance to explore.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. " Since this is a movie or visual, it has to be explained in a visual way.

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The importance of Sandboxes and Play in online learning spaces!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the areas I wanted to dig deeper into was vlogging and screencasting. How to make a video from stills and music and transition screens. Doing a movie from stills is great first project, less to worry about, more immediate gratification, and you don't need a video camera. I used MovieMaker in Windows.

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