Friday, May 3, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
Celebrate Democracy Storyboard
Did a lot of work creating a video to celebrate spending money and vacation in the only two states in the country that have complete democracy for voting rights. Yes, Maine and Vermont are the only two states to allow felons that are incarcerated to vote. Nowhere in any plea deal does it say that you will lose these rights; it is just one of those collateral damages that you suffer after being coerced into plea deals.
Socially conscious consumers can support these states by vacationing there and buying their products rather than other states. Many states are moving towards the leaders in this type of legislation, but some incentive might help them.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Life's Too Short to Be Divisive!
When you click on the slideshow, one still has to click on Present, on the upper right of the tool bar, and then click on the play arrow on the bottom left of the screen's presentation bar. SEE THE BOTTOM LINK PLEASE.
Timeless Legacy Continues On!
I used WeVideo to make a video honoring my Dad and the Irish Music groups that he helped found many years ago. This is the second time using this program so it was nice to improve upon some things like controlling the audio transitions, yet I still don't think they are smooth enough. Audacity's transitions were much smoother, but at least I figured out how to do it this time. I still need to narrate louder, as I didn't want to turn the bagpipes down any lower to lose the effect. I like this program except for the audio transitions. I feel it is good enough to pass along to family, friends and my Dad's musical buddies so I am very happy with it.
As far as a final project storyboard, I didn't have time to do the storyboard. I have done them in my other class and I liked your link better than the other ones I had been using, but the video took up a great deal of time organizing all the photos from everyone's collections.
My idea is to do something with the voting issue as I have been, and will be, pushing this for the rest of my living days! With only 30-60 seconds, I can really have no more than 10 photos. The music will be upbeat and the message is to praise those states that allow all citizens to vote. Vermont and Maine are the only two states that allow inmates to vote, and only about 14 states allow convicted felons to vote. I think we should buy products from the states that allow full-voting rights and boycott those that consider it a privilege. I will definitely use my banner that I created in this class and I will use other campaign photos, but most importantly I will offer a place to register to vote. I really want to expand the idea of consumer influence into the realm of supporting those states that have full-voting rights.
As far as a final project storyboard, I didn't have time to do the storyboard. I have done them in my other class and I liked your link better than the other ones I had been using, but the video took up a great deal of time organizing all the photos from everyone's collections.
My idea is to do something with the voting issue as I have been, and will be, pushing this for the rest of my living days! With only 30-60 seconds, I can really have no more than 10 photos. The music will be upbeat and the message is to praise those states that allow all citizens to vote. Vermont and Maine are the only two states that allow inmates to vote, and only about 14 states allow convicted felons to vote. I think we should buy products from the states that allow full-voting rights and boycott those that consider it a privilege. I will definitely use my banner that I created in this class and I will use other campaign photos, but most importantly I will offer a place to register to vote. I really want to expand the idea of consumer influence into the realm of supporting those states that have full-voting rights.
Monday, April 8, 2019
FIRST RUN OF CAMPAIGN IS 26.2 MILES
Wow! If this works when I am done writing, I will be very pleased once again as I used these newly acquired animation skills to advertise not only our kick-off weekend for our campaign but our best display of Vermont Humanity in the Vermont City Marathon. For anyone who has not been to this event, let alone run in it, it is simple an amazing outpouring of love all throughout the city of Burlington.
I looked at all the templates before going out on my own, but I didn't really find one that was what I wanted to do, and I kind of got lost in a Business Ethics template that I thought might apply nicely to my intentions to disperse another campaign message. Hence, abandon the templates and persevere for creativity and meaning. My audio recording at the end was really low, but by this time I had been working all day and was exhausted so listen carefully is my advice to my listeners, lol.
Overall, the stage area was easy to work with and the timeline was too. I wished I had used the library more, but I got going on a theme and it worked for me. In the properties area, I would have liked to see more things like underlines, but I may have just missed them. I was a little overwhelmed throughout the whole experience, but I am happy with my product.
I encourage all people to go to the Vermont City Marathon and cheer people on! I will be running in the shirt with 2020Vision printed on it and I will be running in memory of my dear friend and campaign manager who took his life on the fear that he may go back to prison where he was illegally detained for almost 4 months before he would let me assist him legally. Criminal Justice Reform must happen immediately before another beautiful life is lost.
Monday, April 1, 2019
Podcasting the Voices Nobody Hears!
I did compress the differences in the volume of the voices, but not enough so I will have to work on that aspect. I did edit out about 7 minutes, but I would like to have some good lead in and lead out aspects. Overall I am happy to have lined up several people interested in doing this project and hope to let people see the wonderful humanity being wasted in these terrorist-camps we call prisons.
I had some technical difficulty but I think it is up and running.
https://www.screencast.com/t/ChTmLyYY Podcast of the Voices Nobody Hears!!
I guess these attempts don't work, but I tried the Google Drive trick and we'll see if that works!
Monday, March 25, 2019
We Must Care For Our Most Vulnerable!
I recorded this audio recording of a Eulogy that I have been preparing for my Dad's eminent funeral. I did a lot of splicing out of stutters and pauses, but I didn't try leveling out the sounds through the effects tool because I felt that it was important to change the tone, but maybe that is more for volume control. I will have to continue investigating.
This is a great way to practice speeches because you get to see how the overall delivery of the speech sounds and then you can find the visual area where a mistake may be or where there may be a spot for deleting some of a pause. It really was as easy as pushing the big red button to record and to push new to start another one. As I am writing, the audio file still reads "uploading video or cancel" so I am not quite sure what is going on.
Now I tried Screencast because the video option never worked, so I hope this works for people.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Google Docs Translates for 83 Languages
In beginning to understand the Google Docs web-based free software, I was immediately drawn towards the "Tools" area that had "Voice Typing" and "Translate Document" tools to use for creating your Google Doc. Back in the 90's when I was using computer voice recognition programs for students who struggled with language skills, the technology just wasn't practical enough to use with any sort of ease and efficiency, but this is an amazing dictation tool. Being able to translate what you just dictated into the computer is another amazing gift to have, and one that I want to be able to use for our campaign. I am so glad that I was given this assignment to be able to discover something so valuable right under my nose.
These tools of inclusion were the ones I focused on teaching the class, but then I couldn't get it to upload from my phone to the computer because of the size of the video. I still haven't figured this part out so I can't exactly finish my assignment the way I planned. I am working on alternative methods right now!
my terrible instructional video with no sound yet
Well, I guess I am human after all. I think everybody knows that I am providing hospice and memory care for my terminally ill Dad, and this week has been a little difficult. It's a 24/7 job between my Mom and I and he is now unable to get out of bed and is on oxygen, and for the first time he is showing that his fight is over. I am tired and I have tried so many ways to try and use these products, but my fight is over right now as well. I just can't get things to work, even with my new found love for technology. Sorry I have nothing to share with the group. The video doesn't even play after I tried the 5th idea to have it work. There is always tomorrow.
Well, I guess I am human after all. I think everybody knows that I am providing hospice and memory care for my terminally ill Dad, and this week has been a little difficult. It's a 24/7 job between my Mom and I and he is now unable to get out of bed and is on oxygen, and for the first time he is showing that his fight is over. I am tired and I have tried so many ways to try and use these products, but my fight is over right now as well. I just can't get things to work, even with my new found love for technology. Sorry I have nothing to share with the group. The video doesn't even play after I tried the 5th idea to have it work. There is always tomorrow.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)