Creating Contentfor your

Learning Platformon the Mac

Oldham CLC june 09Julian Coultas

juliancoultas@mac.com

Fundamentals

Are we uploadingour content direct?(the content will be on our LP server).

Are we pointingcontent from other

sites to our LP ?

or

• You Tube

• Flickr

• Slide share

• any embed tags

What we’ll (try) and cover

Creating/Repurposing

• Capturing simple pupil vox-pops video • Capturing classroom activity as audio • Creating for playback on hand held devices eg. 3G Phone or iPod/mp3 player • Capturing image, video and sound from the internet for use in the class/VLE • Repurposing existing Powerpoint slides adding voice overs

• Repurposing precious video and other older formats for use within the Learning Platform

Directing Web 2Content

Fundamentals

key file formats

image - jpg

audio - mp3 and AAC

video - MP4 - AVI - Quicktime

with PhotoBoothit’s quite easy!

• Capturing simple pupil vox-pops video with Photobooth

I look I look rough!rough!

• Capturing simple pupil vox-pops video with iMovie 09

iMovie

How ?

Go to File Open a new project.

Select iSight camera icon

save asQuicktime

Quicktime will providemore optionsthan the “share”option - but “Share”can publishdirect to you tube.

Click on “Capture”edit

(if required)

note - iMovie willprovide betterquality thanPhotobooth

• Capturing classroom activity as audio

with GarageBand 09

Choose Voice Record and share to either disk or iTunes - but save as Mp3

• Capturing image, video and sound from the internet for use in the class/VLE

Capturing screen shot (evidence gathering esp useful @ks3/4)

1. cmd/shift/3 (for full screen)

2. cmd/shift/4 (for cross hairs then choose the area)This can be helpful when creating handouts!

Mac screen shots will be in PNG format Save them as .jpg from the“Preview” software.

http://plasq.com/skitch

Capture the screen and annotate

• Capturing still image using Skitch (free Beta)

Skitch allows you to add text and highlight areas/add arrows etc

tip - use Safari when googling imagesright click the files straight into iPhoto

Creating for video 4 playback on hand held devices eg. 3G Phone or iPod/mp3 player

the old version of iMovie has this built in as an export featureso don’t delete this version!

Creating for video 4 playback on hand held devices eg. 3G Phone or iPod/mp3 player

Note - Files exported by “Shared for iPhone” won’t play on 3G phones.

iTunes is set up to convertfiles to Apple’s AAC formatThis can be changed in the preferences.

Choose mp3 for audio for most Learning Platforms

Converting for Audio for playback on hand held devices eg. Phone or iPod/mp3 player

iTunes can provide basic file conversions to change the format go to the preferences in iTunes.

How do I know what a file format somethingis in iTunes?

If the file is outside iTunes -

simply highlight it and click CMD/I - This will give you info about any file.

• Repurposing existing Powerpoint slides adding voice overs

or simply upload to Slideshareand point using the embed tags

http://www.slideshare.net/category/education

• Keynote and voice over - simply hot record slide show and talk!

• Capturing sound from the internet for use in the class/VLE

Option 1. 3.5mm stereo cable from one mac to an another. Set GarageBand audio in in the GB preferences to “line in”.

Play from web here

record from web here

connect with

Option 2. Free Software

Sound flower - http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

Once installed you can route audio from any sourcelike the web browser andrecord the sound in sayGarageBand

• Capturing DVD content

http://handbrake.fr/

http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/

• Capturing video from the internet for use in the class/VLE

Need Youtube content?But Youtube is blocked?

http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv/

Enables you to download and convert Youtube clips to play back in class/upload to LP

Using embed tags from flickr

<object width="400" height="300"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fjuliancoultas%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fjuliancoultas%2F&user_id=21461298@N00&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fjuliancoultas%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fjuliancoultas%2F&user_id=21461298@N00&jump_to=" width="400" height="300"></embed></object>

The code is simply copied and pasted into the html editor on your Learning P.

Managing long urls

http://tinyurl.com/l5de25

exporting to PDF

Use the Quartz filter to compressThese slides have been reduced from Keynote - 22MB

exported as PDF 8MB and exported via preview to 976k