This week’s e-Learning Tech Stuff is a guide to using Screenr.
Screenr – Instant screencasts for Twitter. Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screencast in seconds.
I really like the simplicity of Screenr.
Dave Foord has used it to create some excellent guides.
This week’s e-Learning Tech Stuff is looking at the Nikon P100 digital camera.
This week’s e-Learning Tech Stuff is looking at the BBC News App.
Download the iPhone version in M4V format.
Get the latest, breaking news from the BBC and our global network of journalists.
By downloading the BBC News app you can view:
News stories by geographical region
News by category including business, technology, entertainment and sport
News in other languages including Spanish, Russian and Arabic
Video including one minute news summaries to keep you informed on the go
You can also personalise the app to suit your interests and download content for offline browsing
The BBC News website is a wonderful resource and place for news on the web. The mobile version is okay too. Both versions do work on the iPhone and the iPad.
However the BBC News website does rely on Flash for video. The obvious solution would be, as other news providers have, build an App.
So the BBC did build a BBC News App…
UK media companies complained, so the BBC Trust said that the BBC News App would not be available in the UK, but they could make it available overseas!
However today the BBC Trust having delayed the UK launch has now said that the App would be available in the UK.
The UK launch was delayed while the BBC Trust, the corporation’s governing body, assessed the proposals and their impact on the rest of the industry.
The apps do not “represent a significant change to the BBC’s existing public services,” ruled the BBC Trust, meaning that further scrutiny was not required.
So what about the App itself?
Basically it is similar to the website, the news is divided into sections.
The advantage over the website is that any video is in h.264 format so it plays!
The user interface is much more iPhone like than the website so making it much quicker and easier to use.
Once only available to Hollywood and BBC weathermen, it’s now possible for anyone to use green screen or chroma key technology.
Chroma key is a technique for mixing two images or frames together, in which a color (or a small color range) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay, greenscreen, and bluescreen.
This video was made using a couple of Sony HDD Camcorders, on one of them was screwed a 37mm adapter with a ring of green LEDs.
I sat on a sofa in front of a screen which is not green (but you can use green) but has reflective beads to reflect the green light back into the camera.
Using Apple’s iMovie 09 and switching on the Advanced Tools option in preferences allows you to add your green screen footage over existing footage.
There is a nice and simple guide on how to do that here.
Has quite a bit of potential to making short videos more interesting and adding learners and practitioners over existing footage to explain stuff.
We have decided to deploy some Asus EeePCs in our college Libraries as short term loan computers to provide extra access to computing when we are busy and for those learners who want a smaller computer footprint when working on their learning.
One thing that learners may want to do is remove their browsing history from the EeePC to ensure that all cookies and password are removed.
This simple guide shows how to remove the browsing history from an Asus EeePC.