DV for Teachers

In How to Reformat a New External Hard Disk, Matt Neuberg explains exactly how to do this so that it just works, which is what it’s all about.

Studio Daily’s Lonzell Watson posts a very clear tutorial for editing a demo reel or music video timed to the beats of the music track. While it’s useful for those purposes, it’s also a terrific beginner’s intro to the Final Cut interface. Lonzell also introduces several essential keyboard shortcuts, as well as the Roll and Slip tools. Good stuff.

Lonzell Watson’s Edit to the Beat in Final Cut Pro, from Studio Daily.

I saw some very engaging student projects while judging at the Festival—previous post here. There were 160 judges there, working into the afternoon judging several categories, all hosted in the facilities of Georgia Public Broadcasting.

I worked with an instructional technologist from Muscogee County and a library media specialist from Fulton County. We looked at several student-created web sites, most on CD and some online. Lots of good creative work, some were rather cookie-cutter, and one or two a bit misguided or unfortunately marred by broken links or missing images. I particularly liked the emphasis on citing sources as part of the projects. One nice resource I discovered is Weebly, a free website host for several of the projects. The sites I have seen had few ads, and not to distractingly placed. A nice find.

Encourage your students to participate in the festival in your school!

There are so many types of HD compression it can be confusing, so thanks to Ken Stone for this listing of Sony’s formats wit links to drivers.