ype, and wikipages. Our 1st day is Tuesday 8-25. I will take lots of pics. Please let me know if there is room for my class on this project.
Thanks,
Mary Freeman
mfreeman@rcsnc.org…
Added by Mary Freeman at 9:45am on August 23, 2009
into a recording device and any recordings are turned into voicememos that can then be imported into itunes. Another option is to request a google voice number, and when the number is called, the message is stored in an inbox. Each message has an embed code, and the "podcast" can then be embedded in a blog.…
eo one sentence at a time. I separate the sentence from the rest of the video's audio in Audacity and save the audio. I bring the audio just saved into Audacity, clean it up a bit and slow it down 30 using the effect Tempo and save it with a different file name. Having heard the sentence enough that I remember it well enough to type the sentence using Wordpad. Wordpad is in richtext format. It is important to keep it in richtext. Next I highlight the text which will be the sentence that becomes the captioning-subtitle. I make the font larger and use the bold font I copy the sentence by using edit/copy. In microsoft Paint I load a picture from the video, which I had captured, and paste the sentence onto the picture. With some editing I make the sentence fit in well with the picture. I save the picture which now has the captioning-subtitle in it. In Paint then I put a rectangle around the first word in the sentence, reverse the color and save the picture with whatever name and two zeros after the file.name. I put a rectangle around the second word, save this picture as I did the in the previous picture except instead of 00 it is saved as 01, and so on. I use Audacity audio editor to save individual sentence audio clips. I load the pictures saved in Paint to Microsoft Movie Maker. The sound needs to be synchronized with each individual word highlighted. Individual frames at the timeline need to be wide enough to click on them to change the width of the frames according to how long it takes for a word to be said. There may be pauses or slowness when a person says a sentence so these frames are made wider to slow down the movement of individual word-frames so the sentence a person says is in rhythm/synchronization. Longer words require wider frames. Certain words like at, in, it, or, etc. require the frames for these words to be narrowed to speed up the rhythm because they are said faster.
Movie Maker is the only application that I know which does this. I happened upon this function by accident about six months ago. I was lucky to come across this function. I don't read much how to do something, Instead I tinker around because I like using different multimedia applications and I don't like paying for any of them if it is at all possible. I have bought many but only when I couldn't find what I want from freeware.
The process of making the videos for a Mac can be done if there is a word processor which has the equivalent of writing a sentence like in Wordpad's rich-text-format, and then highlighted and copied. A paint application must also allow highlighted and copied sentences to be pasted into a picture previously loaded into the paint application. Unfortunately, not all word processors nor all paint programs allow these things to occur. You can download a Mac version of Audacity at Sourceforge.net.
That is probably more than you wanted to know about the process. Thanks for your patience and attention.
.If you have any questions please email me. philip5147@aol.com
Phil Wagner…
Added by Philip Wagner at 9:00pm on December 31, 2008
indows Media Player or to burn on CD. Now we're ready to record student reading fluency, student written stories, and more. It's been very easy for the non-techie teachers to use also.…
tation I am giving next week. It is really easy to use Camtasia Studio. It is not opensource, but I believe it is worth the money for teacher use as production is fairly easy in multiple file formats. Our students use Audacity or Podium.…
backgrounds where they may never have used computers before and they often have learning difficulties, get easily confused (like myself!) and need alot of time to learn new processes. But the more practice the better!…
d using the web to find other educational podcasts. We moved from there to blogging which is also a really big hit. We started with the blog feature on the school site and recently launched our own site!
We are hooked. You will be too!…
Added by Sue Palmer at 9:34pm on November 14, 2007