Sorry, I don't think you'll find a single, intelligent, unified strand of thought here, but since, as I point out from time to time, I'm the only real intended audience for this blog, all that really matters is that I say these things and try to get the thoughts that bump around in my head clear.
First, the title of this post refers to the previous post about the communication between teachers and administrators about technology integration. I should have called it "What we talk about when we talk about tech" in homage to Raymond Carver and his outstanding short stories (see What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Vintage, 1989) (and thank you Marisha Pessl for encouraging annotation - see Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Viking Adult, 2006). But I didn't, and it would be cheap to change it now. So why would I want to have changed it? I think the title included the word frustration, and I think people might have been worried that I was making a targeted or specific accusation. Not true, at all, of course. With the exception of the empathy I felt for my neighbor at the conference, I wasn't expressing personal frustration at all. Rather, my gentle and collegial point was that technology is giant and all-encompassing and so needs to be discussed in more specific detail if specific outcomes are desired.
On with the show. Played with Camtasia last night to make a new video for recording voice over music on Movie Maker. I can't see Camtasia 6 as being that big a deal after Cam 4/5, but it worked pretty well. I uploaded to screencast and got good download speeds here at school. What has definitely not "clicked" with me is how Camtasia could be used often as my respected friend at Central assures me. He's half barking mad about Camtasia and screencasting as a revolution in education and I'm just not seeing the big picture. BUT, it is more reliable than movie maker so I think I'll make some more stuff more quickly this way. Hmm, what could I really screencast? How would Powerpoint/screencast theoretically work with Powerpoint/CPS? It's true, you can use powerpoint with the remotes (CPS Clickers) and you can use powerpoint with camtasia. Could you make movies that people take tests during? Kind of like those old interacTV games the kids had a few years ago. ...Which road should dora take..., and all that. Perhaps that's worth playing around with.
Computer 18 keeps restarting, it bugs me.
I updated all the Quia and Sharepoint stuff finally. It takes a long time to get the phrase/clause coding right (and then getting it all into quia), thank goodness for Macropro. It's not that the Macro saves me all that much time. Instead, I spend more time troubleshooting and programming and less time re-entering data. Let's face it, if you've gotta spend time doing something tedious or something difficult, the latter is the better choice. A bit behind on grading. Computers keep crasing on student projects. Gotta pitch MovieMaker next year. Way too unstable. We'll probably use Photostory 3, though I'll miss some of the MM features.
Anyway, I've gotta go. Lots to do, etc. oh. Here's my video on adding voice and music to a movie maker project:
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