The instructions for the “Speed Up Your Work Day” assignment were to “Take video of yourself doing what you typically do on an average work day, and then speed it up! Start with at least 30 minutes of footage at a minimum, so as to get a good amount of video to share. Challenge yourself to complete the assignment in one single shot, then speed it up to ridiculous speeds, and toss in some music that fits the mood.”
I am a technical services student aide and the book repair supervisor at Simpson Library. My days consist of many different things, but on this particular day (Monday) I was replacing the spines of books that needed repaired. For this assignment, I took a video of the entire process of a spine replacement. The video was about 30 minutes long. I ran in to a small problem about 1/3 of the way through the video when I realized I needed to go downstairs to use the paper cutter. I turned the camera off for that one part and spliced it back together, but the rest of the video was all one take.
I used the video editor on my computer to upload and combine the videos, then I downloaded the video to my computer. While the editing software that comes with my laptop is good for very basic video editing, this assignment required a bit more. I used VSDC Free Video Editor to speed up the video from 30 minutes to 90 seconds. I really didn’t like the video editor at all. It was very clunky and hard to use, but it got the job done. I added background music that I got from this site. After I finished editing, I uploaded the video to my computer and then to YouTube.
Along with some of the other assignments this week, I really enjoyed this one. I think the final product turned out to be so satisfying to watch! It’s definitely one of the coolest assignments that I’ve done. You can watch the finished product below!
In this post I showing a video of me programming/coding. This is what I do for work and what I spend most my time doing. The inspiration for this video came from the fact that I love coding and it shows a typical day of my work life.
For this assignment, we were required to take a video of our “Work Day” and speed it up. The video that I made is me doing work for my internship at USGS. my assignment is to use the data collected by the USGS to make an online Story Map that Shows their work.
This was an extremely video to make including the the editing. I used my GoPro HERO4 Silver to take the video. Its an hour long video and i shortened it down to roughly 2 minutes.
This assignment called “Speed up your work day” was pretty cool and I really like how it turned out. Since it is a weekend and I am not at work I decided to record my ds106 day! The whole premise of the assignment is to, you guess it, speed up your work day. So, I took about 40 minutes of a screencast of me just doing random ds106 assignments, while working on a few different things. I really think this captures the essence of ds106 and what it is all about….being creative and sharing what you create. Through the video you can see several of my assignments unfold in the process, along with this one, and me commenting on other students blogs as well. Here is my ds106 day!
Once this class is all said and done, I think I will look back on this video and just enjoy how much fun this class, and the process that comes with it, truly was. Speaking of process, this video was not hard to create and anyone who has Quicktime Player on their computer can make this video. I’ve shown you before how to make a screencast, but I will tell you again as a refresher.
Open up Quicktime: Go to>File>New Screen Recording>then press record. That simple and when you want to stop just press the stop button.
Save the video to your desktop or somewhere convenient. If you wish to add more to the video like I did with the audio and titles, you will need some form of video editing software. I used iMovie because that is what I am familiar with. I simply just added some text to the beginning and end of the video and used a song I found on Royalty Free Music for the sound. Also to speed up the video alls you have to do is select the entire clip>right click>show speed editor> and move the speed editor tool to the left to speed it up or to the right to slow it down. If youhave any questions just leave a comment!
So I wanted to give 60 minutes of my time in front of computer a twist that would hopefully give it a more thoughtful glimpse into my work day. It also gave me an opportunity to see what I could glean from Google’s Account Activity tool. It’s a terribly useful (or frightening depending on the results) cursory look at the number of emails sliding on and out of your inbox, videos you’ve watched on YouTube, and a few other bits of analytics. In the last 30 days I’ve received more than 1200 emails. That’s an average of 40 emails a day finding their way to my inbox, and while that’s a startlingly high number, I suspect there are many people in positions like mine that would consider that just one week’s worth of email traffic. I dedicate this video to them.
The stats provided by Google, and a few that I gathered myself, gave me the opportunity to reflect on how much time my job requires me to spend on clerical, bureaucratic, and otherwise administrative communication. This communication is the cornerstone of how I’m able to get anything done. While this video doesn’t reflect the much larger amount of face-to-face time that I spend working with students and teachers in my district, it’s the digital dissemination and collaboration that serves as the glue between the joints of physical meetings and one-on-one instructional time.
I’m curious now to look at my data for the next 30 days, to see if there’s a drastic difference between the first month of the school year and the second; we have standardized testing happening throughout October, routines have been established and require much less monitoring to work, and I’ll be transitioning into more face-to-face time for lunch and learns and small group meetings. I’ll have to try and remember to come back and revisit this post, or at the very least, compare the stats to see if I can establish a baseline of what a “normal” workload looks like for me.
This is a video of me working on some independent research into the field of parallel computing, by way of beginning with a single-core processor. It’s a lot cooler than it sounds and it’s what my other blog is all about. The other blog is also very empty which is due to this course giving me so much work to do. Anyway. Here is me sped up working on getting AutoDock-Vina onto a hard-float debian distribution. I used kdenlive to speed everything up, it took a little longer to render with the changes than I thought it would, but it turned out nicely with Daft Punk’s Too long as the music, pun intended.
I had no homework to do really and my friend needed to focus so I told her that she has to do her work for at least 30 minutes straight so we will both benefit I would get video of someone doing work and she will do her work. A win win situation . So all I did was record her got in way in the beginning and then just sped it up in movie maker. I do not know why it looks all choppy though I think it is my computer is just slow or does it do it on all of them?
Last week I introduced myself to the #ETMOOC course with a rather whimsical poster of me enjoying a snack and few tid bits of information. This week? I thought I’d tackle a few of the thoughts and ideas that came out of the Elluminate Live session last night. One of the ideas that seemed to be at the forefront of the conversation was digital storytelling, and how to define it. I didn’t participate in that session, as I was attending to much more important duties; playdoh play time with my kids. I actually created a video of our play time last night, not only because I needed an excuse to use the Frameograph App on my iPhone (I’ve been neglecting it), but I wanted to kick off this post about what digital storytelling “is” with a simple, but fun, example.
The video wasn’t as interesting as I thought it would be after one view, but then again my only goal was to just have some fun with my kids and see what would happen. The magic for me came after repeated viewings; small little moments became gems of captured memories (my son and I pretending we had giant playdoh boogers, or my daughter and I making playdoh cupcakes). This is digital storytelling; capturing emotions through video. Music is optional, though like gravy, it usually makes things better.
Last week was unseasonably warm here in Michigan. We had temperatures in the mid 50s during January, and while it wasn’t quite a record, it was still depressing; snow fell, but melted instantly, children were running through a muddy yard rather then a snowy one, and the skies were grey. I used the opportunity to chop a lot of firewood as I prepared for what I hope will be a Winter filled with many more colder days. It was only a small pile, but for a good while I spent some time in my backyard splitting wood in a nice regular rhythm, humming the “Whistle While We Work” tune from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (what can I say, I’m pretty simple minded). On a lark, I grabbed an old Flipcam, captured a few seconds of video, and then imported into photoshop and turned in into an animated GIF, the cadence of the ax-fall producing a rather cathartic experience from my chore. This is digital storytelling; capturing a singular moment of video and looping it in an act of “scholarly scrutiny“.
As I said earlier, I missed the “face to face” connection for the #ETMOOC course last night, but I’ve been following the Twitter stream, and while most of it has been the usual acclamation of “this is awesome” (it’s still early in the course, energy is high), there’s been some thoughtful nuggets of affirmation that speak to me. The tweet above is one such thought, and one that I’ve been taking more to heart lately. We make mistakes as we learn, and regardless of whether we share them or not, the learning process is messy. The process should be focused on helping identify “good” messes, and separate them from the “bad” messes. This is digital storytelling; Tweeting, liking, commenting are all ways of sending small “pings” of text out into the ether for others to consider. It’s a domino, looking for some others to knock over.
I thought finding some audio introductions to #ETMOOC would produce more results, but I found one, just one. Thankfully, the one I did find was a nicely done little audio introduction by Rod. I’m always slightly hypnotized by SoundCloud, the way the playhead follows along the waveform of the audio piece, listening with anticipation for the moment that will catch my interest and give me an excuse to fill the comment box with some response to the story. There isn’t any “whizz bang” digital work going on with most audio, or the construction of textual metaphors and idioms to express ourselves. This is digital storytelling; Using audio to capture simple, raw, quick stories told through the oral tradition that human beings have always done naturally.
I could go on for paragraphs about what Digital Storytelling is, as there’s isn’t very much that it’s not. There are several resources out there that help explain how digital storytelling is simply a way to convey a point of view through media to masses beyond your immediate physical audience. It can be as complex or as simplistic as you want it to be, and my hope is that this post would serve as a means for others in the #ETMOOC course to share what digital storytelling is for them. I’ve missed a number of other tools for creating digital stories, but this post wasn’t meant to highlight the particular tools you can use to create them, rather the product you produce using them. I’m eager to see what other stories my fellow participants create, and share, as a part of this course; I’m eager for something to comment on.
For this assignment, filmed myself working on a project for class for about 25 minutes. To develop the movie, I used Windows Movie Maker 2.6 to speed the movie up to get it around a minute and a half. To have the movie sped up, I had to add the speed effect about 6 times. Movie maker allows you to overlay 2 effects at a time, so I had to then save the movie as a .wmv file and then reupload it to movie maker to apply the effect again.
The song I used in the background is Pot Kettle Black by Tilly and the Wall
Take video of yourself doing what you typically do on an average work day, and then speed it up! Start with at least 30 minutes of footage at a minimum, so as to get a good amount of video to share. Challenge yourself to complete the assignment in one single shot, then speed it up to ridiculous speeds, and toss in some music that fits the mood., _cpzh4: Video, _cre1l: http://vimeo.com/26491808, _chk2m: Ben Rimes, _ciyn3: 155, _ckd7g: VideoAssignments155, _clrrx: VideoAssignments, _cztg3: VideoTutorials155
. So all I did was record her got in way in the beginning and then just sped it up in movie maker. I do not know why it looks all choppy though I think it is my computer is just slow or does it do it on all of them?
