Tuesday, November 4, 2008
AECT 2008 - Flash Video Workshop
We are using the demo of Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, a demo of CS4 not being available yet. Half way through the workshop and I can now convert videos to .fla, .flv and .swf files. Mighty easy, assuming you have the $700 Flash software. Typical well organized Adobe product. Presenter and participants speak highly of the free VLC Media Player but the free Flash Video Player seems to work fine. After importing video into Flash, the files that need to be uploaded to a website are the resulting .flv file and two .swf files, one of which is the player skin. Files created with Flash Video Encoder are one piece without the controller skin.
Florida and Floridians
Just bumped into Janis Bruwelheide at registration. This exotic tropical paradise is where she grew up. I am disappointed. It is only 26 degrees warmer here than it is in Bozeman. We are promised better weather later in the week.
AECT 2008 - CSS workshop
Peter Rich from Brigham Young University gave us a hands-on introduction to Cascading Style Sheets. He says he actually uses Coda on his Macintosh but went with Style Master for the workshop because everybody could download a free demo. I learned a lot which I can use with our websites and in helping other folks debug theirs. Just knowing that span is the inline version of div is going solve some problems.
Peter directed us to the CSS Zen Garden to demo how CSS can change a page look just by switching style sheets, and recommended The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice by Robin Williams available from Amazon.
Peter directed us to the CSS Zen Garden to demo how CSS can change a page look just by switching style sheets, and recommended The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice by Robin Williams available from Amazon.
AECT 2008 - Prep and Travel to
Offline blogging posted Tuesday:
Saturday downloaded and installed Adobe Flash CS3 demo software. Good for 30 days. Played with it just a touch in anticipation of Tuesday Flash workshop.
Monday
Travel day. Bozeman to Denver, nice. Fantastic view of MSU on the way out. Looked down on Reid Hall at 1:30 and thought of you all.
Denver to Orlando, traveled with the colicky baby convention, I believe. The movie was Wall-e. Audio in English unavailable due to technical error. Wall-e works pretty well with no audio.
Airport in Orlando undergoing renovation. At 9:30 p.m. contractors way outnumbered passengers.
Mears Shuttle Service from airport to hotel very efficient and friendly. HIghly recommended. Three passengers. Me, Mike also going to AECT, and a fellow going to Sloan-C conference at another hotel. Three instructional technology guys. We talked distance education, course management systems, Americans with Disabilities Act compliance the whole trip.
Buena Vista Palace hotel works. Easy check-in. Comfortable scale to the architecture. I got a room on the top (well, except for the ballroom) floor with a balcony overlooking various water features. Set out at 11pm looking for a snack not expecting to find one. Found a little in-hotel market with breakfast, lunch or dinner items available at reasonable (for in the hotel) prices. So far, I like this place. Now, sleep, and then conference.
Tuesday early
Charming views from the balcony this morning. Found the NPR station last night, so awoke to Morning Edition as usual. Dixville Notch went heavily for Obama this election day.
I love a hot shower. Water pipes are connected backwards in my shower. Since it took a while for hot water to arrive at all, I was fooled into not realizing this, and took a cold shower. Tomorrow, perhaps.
Saturday downloaded and installed Adobe Flash CS3 demo software. Good for 30 days. Played with it just a touch in anticipation of Tuesday Flash workshop.
Monday
Travel day. Bozeman to Denver, nice. Fantastic view of MSU on the way out. Looked down on Reid Hall at 1:30 and thought of you all.
Denver to Orlando, traveled with the colicky baby convention, I believe. The movie was Wall-e. Audio in English unavailable due to technical error. Wall-e works pretty well with no audio.
Airport in Orlando undergoing renovation. At 9:30 p.m. contractors way outnumbered passengers.
Mears Shuttle Service from airport to hotel very efficient and friendly. HIghly recommended. Three passengers. Me, Mike also going to AECT, and a fellow going to Sloan-C conference at another hotel. Three instructional technology guys. We talked distance education, course management systems, Americans with Disabilities Act compliance the whole trip.
Buena Vista Palace hotel works. Easy check-in. Comfortable scale to the architecture. I got a room on the top (well, except for the ballroom) floor with a balcony overlooking various water features. Set out at 11pm looking for a snack not expecting to find one. Found a little in-hotel market with breakfast, lunch or dinner items available at reasonable (for in the hotel) prices. So far, I like this place. Now, sleep, and then conference.
Tuesday early
Charming views from the balcony this morning. Found the NPR station last night, so awoke to Morning Edition as usual. Dixville Notch went heavily for Obama this election day.
I love a hot shower. Water pipes are connected backwards in my shower. Since it took a while for hot water to arrive at all, I was fooled into not realizing this, and took a cold shower. Tomorrow, perhaps.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Getting Ready for the Next Group
I am setting up the Montana Thai Active Learning Network pages for our next round of Thai scholars who will be arriving in Bozeman on October 19 for a two week program. We are very excited about meeting the new people. Thinking about them reminds us of what a good time we had learning together with the 2007 group.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Getting Ready for San Antonio
I am working with ISTE in Second Life folks, getting ready to participate in the National Educational Computing Conference, the world's largest educational technology conference for teachers and technology coordinators. My intention is to blog it here.
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