Generation Next
Prezi and 
Wordle are just two topics that we’ll cover on Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday
D.I.’s Web site
- Ray Kurzweil: You can predict how much computers evolve – up to a point.
- Metadata: data about data
- http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ Crowd Sourcing – Luis Van Ahn
- Jonathan Ross: Digital Media (from Working Connections)
- Tagging
- Screencast-o-matic
- Mike Wesch’s YouTube page
- By 2015, ratio of in person to online will be 1:6 (Jonathan Sweetin)
- 20 things learned about browsers and the Web
- Tiny URL
- Human Computation
- Smart Classroom
- Computers
- Projector
- Camera
- Microphone
- Use Windows Movie Maker or YouTube for video
- D.I. likes the LifeCam by Microsoft
- Materhorn video capture – open source
- Panopto – not freeware!
- Ipevo camera
- We used YouTube for video editing
- “Done beats perfect every time!” – Phil Hughes
- Creepy Treehouse
- Michael Wesch YouTube
- http://twitterfall.com/
Thursday
- More Michael Wesch
- ditto Twitter
- Mash ups
- Flickr
- Creative Commons
- Project Gutenberg
- Copyright laws (?)
- Intellectual Propery
- Hans Rosling video on TED.com
- Flickr Tools – it has an API.
- Wordle
- Tagxedo
- Pomplamoose
- Where the Hell is Matt?
- Video Assignment:
- time: 1 minute > t < 3 minutes
- Subject? Either you or MAWC or Radford or subject
- Consider:
- Sound,
- Lighting
- centering
- placement
- background
- no perfection
- Also include
- credits
- titles
- transitions
- Template for D.I.
- Subject: Working VConnections generation next summary
- Time: ~ 2 minutes
- Mostly interviews from
- Geotagging
- exif data
- Movie Maker seemed to be inconsistant
- To download a YouTube video, change www.youtube… to www.kissyoutube…
- Common Craft: Twitter in Plain English
- cmsimple
- New Media Consortium
- We didn’t get to Prezi but check out their site
- We also ran out of time to cover Geo-tagging