ds106 video learning Facebook sharing

First, I shared with my internet friends.
[01/26/11] Susan Grigor: Well, an update. Jim sent me good instructions. And Glen walked me through the steps. So I am on youtube ....waay way down on the list. I have them on my blog. BUT the video would not embed on my facebook entry, just the URL and the html embed data. More to learn...
[01/26/11] Susan Grigor: I am uploading it into FB from my computer..but it is not the same as pulling it in from youtube.

And so, I went to Facebook, to share with my community and family.

Here is my FB stream of consciousness;
[01/26/11] Susan Grigor: Susan Grigor
This fall, I have been taking courses on how to use the internet for teaching purposes. Bit by bit, I have been learning lots. One of the things we were encouraged to try was to use FB. Well, I had FB, but I didn't attend to it.
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Susan Grigor So, I came to see what was happening. I was astonished. Here you all were, talking and sharing. I got most of the information I needed about the flood from you. Someone suggested that I get in touch with Kathy Moore, and now she sends me regular updates about the flood work that is still going on and about food specials in her store. I love it.
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Susan Grigor Yesterday, after many false starts, I learned from my new internet teacher friends how to upload a video. In honour of them and in thank you to you, I am sharing it with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycMlp9e1lAs
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Susan Grigor Nope, it is not happening...more to learn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycMlp9e1lAs
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Susan Grigor I am waay down on the lists of performers. Hope it's not too painful to listen to.
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Susan Grigor And..the power went off...trying again
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Jennifer Feinberg Your persistence is inspiring. Keep up the good work and welcome to the 21st C. where techno tools are king!
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Susan Grigor Processing...wait for it. This is what you get for praying for Patience: lots of practice. Certain students have thought I was impatient, but I try to be patient with learning and teaching, not with blatant rudeness to me or to fellow students.
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Susan Grigor It's in My Videos.
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Susan Grigor But I am such a Newbie that I don't know where that is. More to learn...
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[01/26/11] Susan Grigor: Jennifer Feinberg Well I just hit the link in one of your above posts. But your videos should be on your profile tucked away in some corner.
[01/26/11] Susan Grigor: Thanks, Jenny.  It just popped up.

It took only 5 tries to get it to work and a short wait to get it processed by FB.

ds106 learning about making videos 2

Jim liked these two songs the best.  I was able to post these with help from Jim and from another friend who walked me through every step, to find the embedding html text and to put it here.  Thank you.



The greatest power of these MOOCs is to meet others who help us to learn more.  Among the PLENK2010 horde, I found a small group and they found me.  They have taught me so much.  I hope they have learned from me. too.  This blog is a tribute to them because they pointed me in the right direction and encouraged me.  At times they have given me excellent tech assistance.  As one of our little Second Life group says, "I get by with a lot of help from my tech friends :-)."

I return, I pass the Love along, Paying It Forward to others.

ds106 digital progress uploading videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycMlp9e1lAs

Ha!  I figured it out.  This is not very exciting.  But it is a "video".  My first recording were not very good.  For one thing, I can't properly hear myself with the headset on.  The built-in mic works though.
Anyway, blogger seems to want to get the video from my computer.
But I did something wrong with the first one because it would not upload.  I tried with Youtube, but again, it had some error in uploading. Not that I expect anyone will want to listen.  They are pretty rough and perhaps not me at my best.  Yet.  My goodness it takes a long time to upload one from my computer — from 5:27 to 8:25.   It appears to be capturing bits by the second, every second a pulse of data at the bottom of the screen and at the tab.  With all the stops and starts and correction of mistakes, I have been at this since early afternoon.  Still it is something I can use in other projects.
Aha!  Found the error.  I have to export it into a compression format using QuickTime.  Oh, oh.  Do it again...You're not logged in.  Start again.


What a long process this has been:  Audacity > export MP3 > iMovie > export QT
It takes so much patience.  AND still I get an error loading it this blog.
....To be continued