Portuguese 101
I did a simple tutorial on basic portuguese words and/frases. I created it in Prezi, edited it in Premiere and coded it in Popcorn.js. I left a few of the pronunciation pop ups in blank because I...
View ArticleGrandIO Lecture Marathon
This Saturday, Ryan, Mick and I set up the first lecture marathon at the ITP House on Grand Street in Williamsburg. We invited people to join us as we held back-to-back-to-back lectures, but due to the...
View ArticleContent Commodified: Natasha’s Lesson in Paper Crane Arts
Our Assignment: Take the content of a lecture and put it online. What would make a lecture better? Some people read books, others watch videos, others listen and others do. Why? Because most learning...
View ArticleStreaming vs produced
I compared a more informal google hangout that allows me to live stream camera as well screen share, with a screen share that’s edited and produced. The topic was responsive web design. As a presenter,...
View ArticleIncreasing Engagement through Interactive Experiences
This was a test of my setupThere are many benefits when someone takes their knowledge and transmits it to other people and uses new tools to do so. Using screen capture of instruction of complex...
View ArticleMary Fê’s hand held show
Click to WatchITP’s “Rare Grooves Club” was recently turned over to first year students. Mary Fê was one of the volunteers to keep it going this year, and she came in with a proposal to make it more...
View ArticlePotential Issues with Online Video Content
The video content that I uploaded for this week was one of my favorite classes at GA: Making Something People Love (https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/oef2). I uploaded this class because it sparked my...
View ArticleOn-line tutoring: should it be closed to public or be live streamed?
I had a test session with a math tutor in Korea (aka my mom) via Google Hangout. Here is my screen recording of Learning Trigonometry in Korean. It’s a bit long AND it’s in Korean so you might not want...
View ArticleLive Video Experiments and Building in Discussion
In this week’s installment of Hacking Higher Ed, I had a fun and informative experience playing around with different video streaming systems. I played with Wirecast/Wowza, and then tested the Google...
View ArticleGems for All
Full disclosure: I have nothing do with the production or creation of the content in Example 1. I am a very interested observer in the evolution of this content and in figuring out distribution...
View ArticleSome tools that help engage discussion
I was reading a report by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, focusing on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. That led to search for existing plugins to...
View ArticleFirst Attempts at Video Lecture
For this weeks assignment, I decided to solve a personal problem of mine, here on the ITP floor. I have spent quite a bit of time helping my classmates in understanding and using Max/MSP/Jitter, and I...
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