7/9/2013 Blogging or internet boadcasting • Tips for blogging 1. Fun: The most important part of blogging is having fun and loving your blog. 2. Other media: Why limit yourself to just a blog? 3. Promotion: Commenting on other blogs and getting your blog noticed joins up with social networking sites, but do NOT SPAM ! 4. Collaboration: Use online relationships to collaborate on blog posts and expand your readership – encourage comments, comment on other people’s blogs, link freely and share traffic 5. Social networking: link your newest blog post to your Twitter/FB/Google+ etc. Broadcast Yourself: account for more exposure. 6. Diversity: Multi-media is almost a must these days. Text, video, photo, audio use them all and use them frequently to back up your comments. Podcast, Videocast and Screencast. 7. Brevity: Break up text with cuts, subheadings, bullet lists, photos to better catch the readers eye. 8. Personality: Write what you know, Write from your heart but don’t take the comments personally. There are mean, anonymous people out there surfing the web leaving rude, baseless comments, but there are also plenty more people with constructive comments to offer. 9. Originality: Find your Niche and hold tightly to it 10. Consistency: Posting once a day is considered normal. If you post three times a week, every week, this is considered the bare minimum for attracting and maintaining a strong readership. http://ec.l.thumbs.canstockphoto.com/canstock13762719.jpg http://media.rodemic.com/images/mic-chooser/soundbooth-button-broadcast.png http://www.sokalmediagroup.com/images/Broadcast-Button.jpg http://us.cdn1.123rf.com/168nwm/myvector/myvector1306/myvector130600104/20084211-antenna-smartphone-icon.jpgc Broadcast Yourself: Communications software Podcast • This type of software allows two computers with • A podcast is a type of digital media consisting modems to communicate through audio, video, of an episodic series of audio radio, video, and/or chat-based means. PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or – These Programs are part “Application software” and streamed online to a computer or mobile part “Cloud Services” device. The word is a neologism derived from • Skype, MS NetMeeting, AOL Instant Messenger, IRC, "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the ICQ, CU-SeeMe, ... iPod, as audio podcasts are often listened to on portable media players. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast Blogging & Podcasts • Podcasts • Blog = Short for "Web Log," this term refers to a list of – journal entries posted http://www.techterms.com/definition/blogon a Web page. For audio podcasts, Skype.com is undoubtedly the king. – Call Recorder ($20) is my personal favorite OSX app for • Podcasts = The name "podcast" combines the terms really easy to use Skype recording, which will give you both iPod and broadcast into a single catchy word. As the your own recording and any other sides of the name suggests, podcasts are audio and video conversation in a separate track. Bear in mind that for broadcasts. http://www.techterms.com/definition/podcast group Skype video conferencing you’ll need Skype Premium, which starts at around $5/month. • Looking for a good podcast? Checkout this list. • Vodburner.com will let you record Skype video calls for free, You http://www.podcastawards.com/ and will need to pay if you don’t want the watermark on all calls. http://www.podcast.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast_Awards – if you need to seriously edit a video you’ll want to use a standalone video editing application like Windows Movie Maker or iMovie 1 7/9/2013 Broadcast Yourself: Broadcast Yourself: Videocast Videocast • A videocast, often referred to as a video podcast or • Youtube.com is the primary place people post their vodcast, is a video produced for the Internet and made so that viewers can stream or download the clip onto a videos right now. Every second an hour of new personal mp3 player. Creators of videocasts can distribute content is added to youtube. the video as a file or a stream. A stream allows the view to watch the videocast directly on a website. A file allows a • Justin.tv - a good place to set up viewer to download the videocast directly to a handheld mp3 device. Several applications may be used to create a your own regularly recorded video videocast including Apple QuickTime, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas and Adobe Premier. QuickTime is a popular choice station, once it’s approved. due to being free of charge and its compatibility with both Mac OSX and Windows operating systems. • www.ustream.tv – an easy way to Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_6715166_create-videocast.html#ixzz2WmmFq6bx broadcast live streaming video. Video Editing Programs Best Video Editing Software? • Video Editing Programs allow for the input of video from cameras, video cameras, webcams and will allow the user to manipulate the 1. Sony Vegas Pro 17% (1082 votes) images to create movies of intense quality 2. iMovie 10% (641 votes) • Popular Video Editing Programs include: 3. Adobe Premiere Pro 22% (1369 votes) • Sony Vegas Pro / Windows / $450, 4. Final Cut Pro 28% (1761 votes) • iMovie / Mac / $79, 5. Windows Movie Maker 9% (567 votes) • Adobe Premiere Pro / Windows/Mac / $799 6. Avid Media Composer 7% (441 votes) • Final Cut Pro / Mac / $1299, 7. Other 6% (364 votes) • Windows Movie Maker / Windows / Free, • Avid Media Composer / Windows/Mac / $2500, WHAT IS SKYPE? • Skype uses technology called VOIP “voice over Internet protocol” • Is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet. Broadcast Yourself: • Calls to other users of the service and, in some countries, to free-of- charge numbers, are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Videocast: Skype • Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing. • Skype is an IP telephony service provider that offers free calling between computers and low-cost calling to regular telephones that aren't connected to the Internet. Included in the free service is a soft-phone application that can be downloaded to any laptop or http://www.slideshare.net/skokielibrary/skype- desktop computer. 101210 2 7/9/2013 To Use Skype, You Need Only Three Things 1. A computer, tablet or cell phone with access to the Internet. 2. The free software program downloaded from Skype.com (currently version 6.5) Image above courtesy of http://prism-break.org/ 3. A Microphone and Web camera. Other Similar Products to skype: • Gizmo5 www.gizmo5.com • Ooma www.ooma.com Reasons to choose Hangouts Google +, Hangouts over Skype • Google+ Hangouts are live video chats. • If you want to talk to more than 1 person – It can be slightly more difficult to set up than • Communicate with up to 10 people Facebook/Skype because not everybody has a simultaneously. Google+ account yet. • Unfortunately participants need Google+ • When you want to call and text phones and land account to participate in a Hangout. lines Hangouts is better because it is free. • It also allows several people to watch a youtube video at once and watch each others reaction. • Add fun hats to people and several other free features and apps. Broadcast Yourself: Broadcast Yourself: Screencast Programs • CamStudio.org -An open source program for capturing your on-screen video and audio as AVI files. Windows Screencast only, and absolutely free. • A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen • JingProject.com – “My Favorite” Beyond recording video, Jing allows you to take a picture of any portion fo your desktop, draw on it, add a message, and immediately upload your media to a free hosting account. You are then given a output, also known as a video screen capture, often small URL that you can give to whomever needs to see the image or video. Works with Macs and Windows machines. containing audio narration. The term screencast • screencast.com – by techsmith is a close second. compares with the related term screenshot; whereas • Screencast-O-Matic.com - A Java-based screencasting tool that requires no downloads and will allow you to automatically upload to hosting. screenshot is a picture of a computer screen, a • Wink - Screencasting software that focuses on making tutorials with audio and text annotation abilities. Outputs to Flash, PDF, HTML, EXE files and more. screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over • Adobe Captivate – Pricing starts at nearly $700 but it is a quality product time that a user sees on a computer screen, enhanced • AllCapture - Can output to Flash, EXE, ASF, DVD, SVCD and VCD. Free trial available, Windows only. • HyperCam - Free trial with $39.95 for full version. Outputs to AVI video with audio narration. • iShowU - Mac only http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast • ScreenMimic - Free download and $64.95 for the paid version. Mac Only Screencasts can help demonstrate and teach the use of software features. Creating a screencast helps software developers show off their work. • ScreenRecord – Offers a free trial and then $19.95 to purchase. Outputs to Quicktime. Educators may also use screencasts as another means of integrating • Copernicus – Mac only , no audio. technology into the curriculum.[8] • AviScreen - Windows only and does not record audio. Students can record video and audio as they demonstrate the proper procedure • Resources: http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/ & to solve a problem on an interactive whiteboard. 3 7/9/2013 Video Files Types and Formats Audio File Types and Formats .3g2 3GPP2 Multimedia File .aif Audio Interchange File Format .3gp 3GPP Multimedia File Graphics Editing Programs .iff Interchange File Format .asf Advanced Systems Format File .m3u Media Playlist File • Graphics Programs (pixel-based) .asx Microsoft ASF Redirector File .m4a MPEG-4 Audio File .avi Audio Video Interleave File • This software allows one to touch up photographs .mid MIDI File .flv Flash Video File and create graphics from scratch.