Oil Spill stats in realtime

I found this widget on the PBS Newshour website that both has video and tracks the amount of the oil spilled in realtime with a slider bar to see different options of how fast it's flowing. Truly sad and depressing how bad this has gotten. Most definitely makes me want to walk and take public transit more. I'm starting to think the best milage car may be no car at all. It certainly makes me think about taking extra trips these days. There's lots of criticism going back and forth about who should have known what and when and all the things that should have been done. Ultimately, beyond participating in the discussion and writing letters to our elected officials and oil companies we do business with, the only real area of impact we can have is deciding how much oil we choose to consume. I remember reading years ago if everybody chose to take public transit just one day a week the impact of that would be huge.

Post Mortem v1

Thoughts on DLM Using Social Web for Social Change
Note: This is disorganized and will get added to as I remember what I've left out.

STEEP learning curve for me at the beginning, which is strange considering I'm comfortable with parts of this. Really felt the firehose for quite a while.

keyquotes for material great and necessary for the ammount of stuff to cover.

Delicious UI was kinda klunky for me for awhile. Getting good at using only fairly recently. When I have some time, I plan to import bookmarks from previous quarters in for "breadcrumbs" for new students and remembering where I found stuff.

My vote tends toward Google Apps for the bgi.edu email accounts we need. Certainly more open source and cross platform for what we're doing. Maybe also look at Zimbra.


The best part of the class for me was our Social Change Project.
Incredibly frustrating at times moving large files back and forth at various stages.
Slow and intermittent connections, many long days and nights working with the footage, audio, and music, computer crashes and rebuilds. I feel most blessed to be working on this team of amazing passionate change agents. This was truly a labor of love. Such moving stories. I think you guys saw a version in class?
Yea Justin, 3 states but at least we were all in the same time zone...not that we would have gotten more sleep. :-)


“Videos
I think I might be on my way to addiction. I love making videos now." <-- Yea, I think some flavor of optional video project needs to go into the rest of our classes.

I really loved the fast collaborative video project on Sunday and was amazed how ours turned out, especially considering the problems we had. I see value in this in other places. A different way of getting more comfortable with on the fly presentation.

Google Wave- I think this is where we need to be going for the next version of this and other classes here.

That's what I can think of for the moment. More in the next update.

Thank you! :-)

Intensive 3-in class video on the fly!

The in-class video project we did making a video was a blast. We quickly shot a bunch of video and had to get it transferred, edited, exported and transfered on fly. I think I'm just about ready to give up on tape. Midway through the edit process the machine we were editing on locked up. We ended up having to re-import and starto over editing on another machine over half way through the process.  Really brought out the creativity quickly through multiple re-edits and export problems.   Miriam and Julie you rock! :-)



Here's our part: Politics Without Prinicple


 

Video Utils

Remembering the tools discussion from last night, here's a list of a couple tools I've found helpful so far:

MPEG Streamclip Really great app for viewing, cutting, and exporting clips on the fly. He even has a windows version. :-)

http://www.squared5.com/

Perian is a plugin that enables quicktime to support more media types.

http://perian.org/

What else are people having problems with?

Video?

Let's see how mobile video works.

WOO HOO it works!! :)

1st test SMS blog post!