I’m in the process of rendering a quick test for my advanced higher on the software development materials which are outlined within scholar. Following their content, I have developed this quick test which will be posted here tomorrow!
The answer sheet can be found here.
SDP Quick Test Answer Sheet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=REYJpPiijVA
A few weeks ago some friends and colleagues introduced me to those Talking Tom, Talking Ben and Talking Gina Apps from the app store which talk back and repeat what you say. I thought it would be a good idea to make a wee computing quiz for my computing class.
This is my standard grade computer systems quick quiz which I created using that great wee record feature in the Talking Ben, Talking Tom 2 and Talking Gina apps on my iPad and edited together using iMovie on my Mac. It’s just testing some of the basics which we covered in class.
Here is the answer sheet if you want to have a go yourself. (right click and save target as…)
Thanks to the folk at Outfit7 for some fun apps.
I’ve been testing inserting a self hosted video using a player plug in. All has been going well but my current challenge is to insert a video straight from something which I have recorded immediately using my iPad.
Here’s my wee test.
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http://blog.eduk8.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110827-113526.mov<a href=’http://blog.eduk8.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110827-113526.mov’>iPad Test Movie</a>
Ok! So the verdict was it works with Safari but not the other browsers. So I’ve reinserted it into the post now!
I’m testing the video posting capacity of a plugin at the moment.
As part of my blog server solution I was not merely content to stop at the provisioningbof blogs to my pupils. As part of our curriculum for excellence roadmap we have tried to bring video editing into the heart of the curriculum. But taking and editing videos with pupils is fraught with issues; first you need sufficient hardware for large groups of pupils to use, so I bought as many flip cameras as I could, next with PCs on the networked policed to the hilt to prevent network abuse (and rightly so) how do you provide users with local storage to allow users to store and edit this data without the need to send it the length and breadth of the network and kill your network servers with high bandwidth traffic? Well my solution here was purchase a large number of 4Gb USB pen drives (chi-Ching, yet more money) which would allow users to save their work and edit the videos on.
Now next we need suitable video editing software, well I’m still working on that. I’m trying to buy licences for Adobe Premiere Elements for the Faculty but at the moment we simply have to make do with movie maker. Although this is already proving limiting for our needs as we start to push the boundaries of our aspirations.
Lastly, we come back to the blog server, I’d like to embed the pupils work in their blogs but WordPress doesn’t come with a video player, I can’t use YouTube as the pupils are filtered from it because of the uncontrollable types of content that they may choose to happen upon whilst visiting the site and this left me looking to supplement the WordPress element of the blowsy server with my own YouTube clone.
This has been quite a battle and forms the next part of the story of my blog server. All I’ll say here is that I’ve tried both PHPmotion and Clip bucket and I’ll discuss them next.