David Free and I taught our Podcasting & Videocasting Bootcamp seminar again, and it was a blast! Here’s the video our workshop attendees created.
YOUR Chance to Star in a Libraryland Music Video!!!
From Michael’s last post you can see that Michael and I recorded a snappy little library song last week. We are really proud of the work we’ve produced and now YOU get a chance to be in the video!! It’s a jumpy little ditty about library futures, technology and how we will succeed as libraries.
Please listen to this short snippet of the song and then … shoot a brief video of you singing along! That’s all it takes! You can use a web cam or any other camera you like and send it to the email below. It should only take a few minutes on your end, and after we get the videos, we’ll take the best and put them in the video we are hard at work on! Of course, also feel free to send other videos that might go along with the title/theme of the song “hi-fi sci-fi library,” too (costumes are very welcome by the way!:)
So join in the fun and star in a video with us! This is your official invite! We are looking forward to seeing YOU in our upcoming video!
Here is a link to the very short snippet to sing along with (you can download it even if you want). The “hi-fi sci-fi library†part is what we really need to see you singing.
If you have you have a webcam, you really should be emailing your video to:
michael.libraryman *At Sign**gmail.com
Please send your clips in to the above address no later than August 24th, 2008. We are really looking forward to seeing you in the video with us!!!!!!!!!
-Michael Porter and David Lee King
David’s Video of ALA2008
Some of you probably saw me wandering around ALA2008 with a Flip video camera… well, here’s why: ALA let me borrow one of their cameras! Daniel Kraus, the guy behind most of the videos on AL Focus (a cool blog from ALA) lent me one of their Flip cameras, and asked me to fill it with video of the conference. So I did – then mailed it back to Daniel, who miraculously edited my video mess into a pretty cool video snippet of the conference.
Check out the video (originally posted at AL Focus):
Video on the Web Presentation
I just finished doing a SirsiDynix Institute webcast presentation, titled Video on the Web: A Primer. Always a fun time – SDI does a great job with these webcast presentations.
I said I would link to some videos on my blog, so here goes:
My own videoblog, for starters: David Lee King’s Videoblog
Arlington Heights Memorial Library:
Allen County Public Library:
Orange County Public Library:
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library:
And finally, those Video Search Engines I mentioned:
In a week or so, the webcast will be online – I’ll make sure to link to it here. enjoy!
Testing Flickr Video
Hey – just me, testing out the embed part of the new flickr video option. The what??? If you haven’t heard – flickr now allows video uploads for pro members (translation – those who have paid $30 a year for a flickr pro account).
The limitations? Not overly produced (I think the idea is to upload those videos people take with their phones); 90 seconds max in length (you can do a lot in that time frame); and only certain video formats are allowed – if you’re interested, you can read more about the specifics here.