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Kids Create Library Promo Videos

Aug 26th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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A couple of great videos created by the kids at the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library in Milton, NY.

In the first one the kids tell why they like the library: books, computers, hanging out with friends, lemonade!

And the second, an appeal to voters to get out and support the library budget in November.

Creative and fun! This library participated in a summer reading mini-grant project sponsored by the Mid-Hudson Library System.  The grant provided video cameras and training on editing video (full disclosure – I had great fun doing the training session). Many of the videos are now posted on the NYS Summer Reading site.

Thanks to Marilyn Fino of the Milton Library for sending these in!

Animoto Father’s Day Greetings

Jun 16th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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animotoJust like they did for Mother’s Day, Animoto is offering a special way to deliver your Father’s Day greetings. Upload some photos and greetings for your Dad and let Animoto animate it for you. Easy peasy!

Make your own Animoto Mother’s Day video

May 6th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Animoto has a handy option for creating a customized Mother’s Day greeting. Upload your photos, pick some music – or maybe record your own greeting as and upload that as the audio. Finally select the special Mother’s Day greeting option. Your video will appear in a pretty frame and have it’s own URL. Send that off to Mom for her own personalized video!

A fun video about Copyright

Apr 30th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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This short video from the Copyright Clearance Center cleverly presents the basics of copyright.

This video is a bit business oriented, but nicely explains the issues in an entertaining way. I’d love to see another version oriented towards students & educators.

(via: Librarian in Black)

New Features in ScreenToaster

Mar 25th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Screentoaster, a great tool for creating screencasts, has added some new features. I haven’t had a chance to test these out yet, but here’s what the email said.

1. Upload your videos to YouTube in HD
2. Download in .mov for video editing, Audio now supported for downloaded files
3. Beta Test our recorder API
Let your users publish videos directly on your blog, forum, website or extranet.
Ideal for collaborative projects, professional tutorials, users’ support and feedback management, bug tracking and reporting.

What changed since February :
- New categories and subcategories
- Four levels of privacy
- Direct upload to Google Video for featured videos
- Download in .swf file formats
- Record from external VNC servers
- Accelerated or slow-motion playback / Pauses during recording
- Spread on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Digg
- Bookmark it on Delicious, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Buzz and Google Bookmark
- Send your video by mail
- Suggested videos on the video pages
- Branded profiles
- Search filters: “most commented”, by “language”…
- Custom RSS feeds

My Coop Rocks

Mar 10th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Love this video contest from the national food co-op organization. Good examples for “my library rocks” videos. And in this particular video, think how many times you could just substitute library for coop.

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