By Mindy McAdams
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Fighting against boredom is a big part of teaching. One of the struggles I face as a teacher is finding a balance between reviewing the assigned reading (and the assigned viewing, e.g. professional online work) and being too repetitious. Students who avoid doing the reading want the teacher to provide a full regurgitation, which obviously [...]
Stunning on-the-scene photos and a voiceover narration by photojournalist John Moore:
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto (The New York Times)
I will venture to say that this collection of images — an audio slideshow without natural sound — is better than video. I also note the inclusion of several photos that are completely out of focus — [...]
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I showed this to my students last week, and apparently most of them agreed with me — this is not your average Soundslides.
At 5 min. 27 sec., it’s much longer than what works best for most audio slideshows. Consensus among people who watch a lot of audio slideshows is that after 2 minutes, most of [...]
Professionals say you’ve got to add an external microphone to your video camera. David Finnegan, writing at News Videographer, gives us the lowdown on mics for the popular Canon HV20:
So what are your cheaper options? Well, there are a few, and I don’t think you will notice the difference in sound quality … although you [...]
I am getting a little weary of hearing journalists and educators say they don’t know how to do audio.
Let’s see whether I can translate my less-than-50-minute* lesson into plain text.
Gathering Audio
It helps if you are holding the recorder, mic and cable — and demonstrating while you teach this. (Sorry, I don’t have video of me [...]
I’ve seen a couple of references recently to the Flip video camera ($119 - $149) from Pure Digital. Mark Hamilton (Notes from a Teacher) has written a couple of posts about this — he owns a Flip camera: (1) Point-and-shoot video: A review; (2) A Little Flip.
But if you see good-sounding video (Burma rally, for [...]
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