English 269: Digital Media Composing

Embedding movies in blog posts

Susan Delagrange — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:31:25 +0000

This movie is a Quicktime version (.mov) of my Powerpoint presentation on Copyright and Fair Use. I put it on my blog in four steps:
1) I saved my Powerpoint presentation as a 320 px wide by 240 px high movie. If you are working in iMovie, you can do the same.
2) I uploaded it to my blog.
3) I changed the code to embed the file rather than link to it (see handout).
4) I added this introduction. Your introduction should speak briefly about your topic.

Audio goes live!

Susan Delagrange — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:13:32 +0000

Good news! Your Audio Essays have been uploaded to the web; you can now create a link to them in your blog so that other people can listen to your wise words.
Of course, you could just stick a link in and let it go at that:

Here’s my audio essay.

Or you could take advantage of the fact that your blog is visual and verbal: write a few sentences about your topic and why you chose it, then add a small image about your topic.

Link to your audio using the following URL syntax:

http://www.susandelagrange.com/269/audio/LastnameAudio.mp3

Creative Commons

S_Delagrange — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:25:50 +0000

Here’s a link to today’s presentation on Open Access and Creative Commons licensing for digital texts and media. You will find it useful to refer back to this periodically as you collect your assets for your Campaign Videos.
Creative Commons Powerpoint

Copyright and fair use

S_Delagrange — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:25:57 +0000

As you begin to think about your multimedia campaign videos, you will undoubtedly be planning which images - photos, videos, drawings, charts, etc. - you hope to use. One thing that determines whether you can use an image is who “owns” it, who has the rights to its distribution and viewing. Sometimes owners are willing to let you use their work for free as long as you give them credit. But other copyright owners strictly control their media.

To complicate the issue, as students and teachers, we are allowed to use some things under the rubric of “Fair Use,” but it’s not an easy concept to interpret and apply. The following links (to information at the University of Texas at Austin) contain thorough discussions of both copyright and fair use. Please look over the Fair Use section for class on Thursday.

A Crash Course in Copyright

Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials (part of the larger course)

On editing audio…

S_Delagrange — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:40:30 +0000

John Solomon, co-anchor of the NPR program On the Media, described his surprise in learning that interviews that ended up on NPR were edited. Listen and learn a bit about the process.

Embedding and linking to video on YouTube

S_Delagrange — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:35:12 +0000

This multimedia video by anthropologist Micheal Wresch explores the connections between students’ real and virtual lives.

A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wresch

Here’s a link to an alternative view of Web 2.0 life by a student of Wesch’s titled “Are We Producing Reality?”

Importing images test

S_Delagrange — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:26:29 +0000

This is the flag of Macedonia that created a controversy in 1995. To help normalize relations with Greece, the Macedonian parliament changed the design of their flag in 1995 to the one below.

Audio Shortdocs

S_Delagrange — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:50:04 +0000

Got an e-mail from a friend today about “short audio.” Seems WBEZ in Chicago sponsors an audio storytelling contest called Third Coast International Audio Festival. In 2006, the topic was “99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story” and this year it was “Dollar Storeys,” in which each story began with a purchase at a Dollar Store. Listen to some of these, and start thinking about ways to turn your OpEd audio piece into a work of “creative non-fiction” with more or different audio, sound effects, music….and images and/or video.

(Just a hint of things to come with our final project…)

audio test

S_Delagrange — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:21:40 +0000

Darqnez - Hip-Hop

Christian Merz - Shortlist

10 classes to take before graduating from OSU

S_Delagrange — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:27:52 +0000

Check out #4 on this list!