Videos on Youtube and Blog

Uploading videos on YouTube is not that complicated. I am sure that some of the students already know how.
I found a lot of help on YouTube site. The basics on how to upload the video are in http://www.youtube.com/youtubeonyoursite, And at http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_makevideo they indicate that the videos need to be saved as a Quick Time. MOV, MPG or MPG4.

For those new to this process, follow the following instructions:

Steps to save your video to view it on Youtube
1- Open your movie on iMovie
2-Go to "file" and click on "share"
3-Click on Quick Time
4- Click on "Compress movie for" and choose "web"
5-Decide where you want to save this new video
5- Wait a couple minutes (5-10)
6- You are done with this part!

Time to upload your video on Youtube

1- Open and account on Youtube
2- Fill the form, choose a password and username
3- You will receive an e-mail from YouTube to confirm your account
4- Open your e-mail. Click on "confirm your account" on that e-mail
5- You will be directed to YouTube site again where you can put your username and password
6-You will be asked to upload the video you just saved for the web from iMovie
(This will take a couple minutes depending of how long is your video)
8- A page with an HTML code will be displayed
9-Copy that HTML code. You are going to need this to paste it on your Blug

Adding your YouTube Video to your blogg

1-Open your blog
2-Click "Customize"
4-Click "Add a page element"
5-Select HTML/JavaScript and then "Add to Blog"
6-Write the title of your video-dance
7- Paste the HTML code you had from YouTube
8- Click "Save Changes"
9-View your video (Press the play icon (tingle) in the middle of the image
10- Done!!!! You did it!!!!

Preparing for the final study

No class, the Undergraduate Research Symposium was today and I wanted them to have the day to work on their study. I wonder if I am giving them a lot of days to work on this final video dance. I guess the results will tell me. Personal meetings will run on Tuesday and Thursday therefore I need to finish my comments for each of them. Yesterday I met with Kristen, her idea for this final study is full of interesting symbols and we came up with a couple metaphors. I spoke with Thomas as well his idea of creating video dance without dancers and using only wooden figures is fascinating although very time consuming. We will see!

Study 4 "Final Video Dance"

I am preparing the questions for tomorrow's trivia for Chapter 3, 4 and 5 of our book "Making Video Dance" we are going to talk about storyboards so I got some samples plus the one from "Mu"
It is time for the students to start with their bluggs and finally I am getting to finish this so they can see a sample. I am excited to see their final projects.