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I like this as a presentation tool for YouTube videos, 6-in-1

Take a look at the GreenPeace videos here

Here’s a great app for recording and uploading on site, with photos, if required. the App also geolocates, so viewers will see where you were recording – sweet.

Check out the Tech Crunch post here

Listen to some audioboos here

Documenting our zoo trip with AudioBoo

If U want to see the power of Cooliris? Try this from @shareski via Twitter

This presentation has been adapted by Alan Levine

It shows how online tools can transform how we present and share

To navigate, I simply used the ‘down’ arrow and the presentation, including videos worked brilliantly. There are also some great clips that reflect good and poor pedagogy.

Take a look at Sarah’s video she made on making banana bread. She’s just 8 years old and shows how comfortable she is with the technology. She not only prepared and scripted this, but also did the editing and music. Her dad is Wes Fryer, but I still think we need to think very high for our young people in schools as to what they can do, given the opportunities.

Making time – lapse shows can be great – especially if it is something the children are doing.

Many projects can be completed within a day:

• monitor movement of animals in a paddock
• observe how people use public spaces
• record changes in clouds
• observe the chemical dissolution of different metals in acids over time
• watch living cells in time-lapse movies (attach camera to a microscope)
• observe a piece of art as it is being created (e.g. painting, sculpture)
• record erosion of soil in stream flow experiments
• verify that stars rotate around the celestial pole
• observe ants feeding or tunnelling in an ant farm
• growing plants from seeds – watercress, runner beans etc
• looking at the movement of plants in the sunlight
• shots of the playground, hall, dinner hall etc

Some longer term projects include:

• compare mould growing on damp versus dry bread
• observe the growth of plants or germination of seeds
• monitor revegetation after a bushfire
• observe fungi or fruiting bodies growth and decay
• record seasonal changes in water levels or plant life
• observe the growth of crystals under different conditions
• taking a sequence of photos from a flying kite

How to do it:

Requirements:

• Digital camera that will act as a webcam, or a webcam (the one I use is an old cheap one, hence the low quality images
• PC or laptop with Windows XP and USB port
• The time lapse software
• A suitable place to do this (See link below)

• There are probably simpler ways, but this one seems to work and is free to use
• Go to Power Toys for XP
• Download Webcam Timershot
• Connect your camera to the PC and turn on
• Load up the software – Webcam Timershot
• At the bottom there is a little arrow>>
• Click on this and you have some settings
• The main on to choose is the time interval – in minutes, hours or days, according to what you are trying to photograph
• You also may wish to alter the photo size to see if you get better results
• Also remember where the pictures are being sent – it is to “My Pictures” in my documents unless you change it
• Ensure the little box “save a new copy of this file every time a picture is taken”
• Now your camera will start taking photos
• In order to view your photos as a series of quick joined up shots – like a proper time-lapse sequence
• Load up Windows movie maker
• You find this in your programmes list (go to start menu – programmes – movie maker)
• Make a new collection folder by clicking the little yellow folder icon with an orange star on it (near the right hand side) – make sure this collection folder is selected (blue)
  
• Click on File – Import into collections
• Then select the photos you want to add in
• As you will be adding them all, simply click on the first, and then whilst holding down the Shift key (the one with the arrow pointing up), click on the last picture in the list – or you could use the CTRL+A keys
• They should all be selected now
• Press the “Import” button and they will all appear on your movie maker page
• Again, select them all and “drag” them onto the line at the bottom that says video
• You now have a show
• Before playing, however, you need to change the amount of time a photo is seen
• Go to “Tools – options – advanced” and there you will see “Picture duration”
• Set this to a max of 0.5 secs, click OK and then click on “play” at the top
• If this looks ok then save your work
• It can only be used on this PC until you save it
• Most people will choose “save movie file” and then choose to save to CD (it will check you have a CD in and then burn it for you when you confirm) or to your memory key (choose to save to computer and then find your key)

I have a very simple show Movie.wmv

These shots were taken every 30 secs and with 0.5 sec interval in movie maker

Play and enjoy

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