Will Richardson in Monterey
Will is talking about how the read/write web is changing everything… including journalism. He mentioned that we can take a picture, write a blog post, and put it online – all from our phone… so I was motivated to do just that. I used to do this more when attending conferences, but this week I’ve been playing with the Flip Video instead. The pictures are much better, but there’s an interesting side effect… I haven’t been making the time to write and post as I go… since I’ve been panning to edit the video later. I think I need to switch to the video equivalent of Flickr… perhaps YouTube, but is there an automatic blog posting feature like this?
More on Will and the CLMS conference soon. Meanwhile, watch twitter for updates.
UPDATE: During the break between sessions I set up a Flip -> iMovie -> YouTube workflow for myself. Click on the image to the left for a brief clip that shows the number of laptops in the audience and then Will explaining the point of his talk, which I tweeted earlier:
Will’s point is the opposite of others here… He’s saying “this is about you and how you learn” instead of just “let your students do it.”
My tweet generated several responses from other educators on Twitter, which may be worth sharing/archiving here:
Durff @markwagner valid point-aren’t we the role models? it is about all the learners – us & them about 2 hours ago from web in reply to markwagner
ijohnpederson @markwagner Reminds me of SNB’s “You can’t give away something you don’t own. Among my favorite posts ever. about 2 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to markwagner
jexplorer @markwagner @mobileminded isn’t this really about mentorer learning vs creating an environment for individual learning? about 2 hours ago from web in reply to markwagner
budtheteacher @markwagner: Yep. I say in presentations that we should never do something to or with students that we won ‘t do ourselves. about 2 hours ago from web in reply to markwagner
mobileminded @markwagner I’ve begun to understand that to be true more and more. Makes sense as the focus is on personal learning. Then students. about 2 hours ago from TwitBin in reply to markwagner
This post has turned into something of an experiment. It all worked, but embedding YouTube is a no go in WordPress and posting the linked image was an extra step. Too, the embedded tweets worked, but required manually editing code. I may be trying more posts like this in the future, and if any of you have ideas how I might improve my process of embedding video (or twitter), please let me know.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Hi Mark
I am curious about your problem regarding the embedding of YouTube videos in WordPress. I have recently switched to WordPress and I thought I would see if I could embed a YouTube video after reading your post. I managed to embed one quite okay.
The WordPress interface is a little unusual. When you embed the code I used the “Code” tab of course. If you switch to the “Visual” tab there is nothing to see. This is quite awkward.
I used a tag to centre the video and following publishing these were converted by WordPress to tags.
Google’s Blogger handles embedded video quite well and I find that embedding all the video that one creates as a video in Blogger is an incredibly easy way to set up a vodcast. You can paste the RSS feed for that specific Blogger blog into iTunes and there you have it. You could create a Blogger account purely for embedded video and use that to establish a vodcast and at regular intervals you could import all the Blogger posts into WordPress via its import function. WordPress will skip video posts that have previously been imported.
I switched to WordPress as I found that publishing my blog via Blogger to my host’s server took forever.
Cheers
John
December 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Addendum to above… my reference to div tags and paragraph tags did not appear in my post above. That’s life. Cheers, John
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Mark, do we have permission to share (i.e., post?, link to?) your YouTube clip of Will?
Gail
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Hi Mark,
I find that I can embed a YouTube video into my WP blog, but as John says, it messes with the code. By accident, though, I found that if I pasted the embed code into the WP code window and immediately hit publish, it works.
For some reason if you do more editing or save your post after you paste the code in, it rewrites the embed code and the video will not show up.
So I do the whole post, make sure it is exactly what I want, save it, go to the code view, paste the embed code in the right place, hit publish, and check it on the site to make sure it worked. If you have to edit the post for any reason, you will have to re-paste the embed code in and repeat the process.
Weird, but this work-around works for me. Not happy with it, but at least it’s better than not having video…
December 13th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Mark,
We’ve set up WP Mu on our servers for our podcasting teachers and installed a plugin called “Viper’s Video Quicktags.” It lets you post easily from a bunch of video sites (google, youtube, etc.) and is pretty intuitive. It’s worked out for us, maybe it will help you.
Plugins available: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=video