July 14, 2009
Lynda.com is a great source of online training videos. Each course includes some free videos, so you can decide if you want to pay for the entire course. Lynda.com is also available by paid subscription. (No, I don’t work for them!)
If your are interested in learning Final Cut Pro, be sure to check out Larry Jordan’s great FCP tutorials on Lynda.com.
If you are a still photographer using Lightroom, take a look at the excellent Adobe Lightroom tutorials on Lynda.com by Chris Orwig.
July 7, 2009
Thanks to LIbby Evans for this link.
Facebooking Your Way Out of Tenure – Chronicle.com
How can you minimize the possibility that your blog or Facebook page might hurt your career? By DAVID D. PERLMUTTER
Posted from Diigo.
July 2, 2009
Lightroom is an outstanding application available for both Windows and Macintosh computers. It is primarily intended for professional photographers, but can be successfully used by anyone who is motivated enough to learn it. In my opinion it is actually much easier to learn and use than Adobe Photoshop. (Photoshop is still necessary for many purposes, especially for images other than photographs.)
Lightroom is great for working with multiple images. Lightroom competes with Apple’s Aperture application. Aperture, however, is only available on the Macintosh. (more…)
June 26, 2009
I’ve added two videos describing how to upload videos to YouTube. One explains how to browse to a video file on your computer and upload it. The other demonstrates how to upload videos to YouTube from within iMovie. To view these videos, visit my Video Uploading playlist at my YouTube channel (laddrob).
June 26, 2009
I recently created the following screencast, which presents a brief overview of Gliffy. If you need to create a diagram, give it a try! I think you will like it.
June 26, 2009
Our screencast series on designing Posters with Adobe InDesign is now available online. To see them you can go to my YouTube channel (laddrob) or go to the Using InDesign for Creating Posters playlist. There are a total of nine videos. The following is part 1:
June 26, 2009
Teaching Copyright (http://www.teachingcopyright.org/) is a free online curriculum about copyright law and fair use. It also includes an excellent section of references, including books, articles, and websites.
The curriculum includes the following lessons:
Teaching Copyright is hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/).
June 3, 2009
Science Commons is a Creative Commons project. This video is from their homepage at http://sciencecommons.org.
June 3, 2009
“Creativity has always been about building on other people’s creative work”
– Lawrence Lessig, Chairman, Creative Commons
I came across this in the CC video “cc Brazil” published on the Creative Commons videos page. (I added a link to the CC videos page on the sidebar.)
June 3, 2009
For those interested in learning more about iMovie 09, this screencast by Andy Piper explains some of the features added in the new version. Definitely worth looking at!
Time | Topic (approx)
1:00 Preferences
1:30 Selecting
2:00 Image stablization
2:30 Clip adjustments and video effects
5:30 Detach / delete audio
7:00 Transitions
7:45 Themes and titles
10:30 Precision editor
11:00 Insert clip into clip; cutaways, picture-in-picture
