Interview for DDO 776 class

Today I used my Vado to interview 3 community college instructors. I've been able to upload the video to my Zen player and save the files to my computer. I am going to try to work with the video in moviemaker next.

Carlinville: My Home Town

Waiting for Vado!

I am still waiting for my Vado. I hope it gets here for class tonight. I've already received the tripod. I hoped that it would arrive yesterday. It was such a beautiful day out yesterday. I planned to practice by recording my dog doing some tricks, but also no vado yet.

I added a link to the device on Amazon.com. I noticed vado's have gone up $5 since I bought mine!

German Soldiers Conscripted As East Texas Loggers

A friend of mine told me about an editorial in the Mount Pleasant newspaper concerning the conscription of captured German soldiers working as loggers during WW II. I contacted the paper and kindly enough the editor sent me a pdf of the piece. It is titled "Nazis in East Texas." The author Bob Bowman tells some interesting stories about the lives of these POWs. Furthermore, he says that they get little mention in history. He does, however, name a book entitled Nazis in the Pineywods by Mark Choate. Sounds like an interesting read.

Wow, I've got to learn to compress Audio

I apologize to any of you that followed my link and waited and waited for the audio to load. Dr. Carter can you tell me how to compress audio?

Class Audio Project

I used audacity to mix it. I left it a little rough, because you know literacy is violent! Also, I really didn't know how to do it better. Anyway, I uploaded it using zshare, very easy to do. Thank you Luca Sylvester! I hope you don't mind that I used your interviews. If you do please notify me, and I'll take it down.

vado

I just bought a creative labs vado with tripod for 65 bucks. I don't know if it is a great deal. However, it looks like it will do what I need for this course. I'm hoping that it will save me the gas I spend renting or borrowing equipment from school, plus I get to keep it after the course is over! Thanks to the IRS refund, my vado could be considered on the house.

Uploading Audio

In order to upload my little test audio, I had to sign up with podbean and zshare to find a bridge to get the audio on my blogg. I probably did it all wrong, and there are probably easier ways to do this. However, it did work. One problem I ran into was that it took a very long time to upload. Shannon said that was probably due to the fact that I didn't compress the audio.

I have a audio project to upload from our group work all ready. I going to attempt to find an easier way to do it this time!