Week 5 - Multimedia (Photosharing, Podcasting & Videocasting)

To successfully complete No. 5 - Multimedia (Photosharing, Podcasting & Videocasting), you must...

READ this blog post.
DO and THINK about the information in the "Learn More About" activities.
LEARN by completing the Hands On Activities, including reading the Important Tips.

Your total time commitment is about 35 to 45 minutes. Please note that the time commitment is slightly larger for this week.

Introduction to Multimedia

Photosharing
Photosharing, either public or private, is the uploading and publishing of digital images to the purpose of sharing with other people. Photosharing is not liminted to web-based photosharing services life Flickr, Buzznet, Photobucket, SnapFish or Kodak Gallery; personal computer networks, camera phones and other devices are equipped with applications that make photosharing possible. Flickr is the fastest growing photosharing site on the web. It is also known as one of the first web sites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between images and site users.

Podcasting
AUDIO FILE + RSS FEED = PODCAST. A podcast is an Internet radio show in MP3 audio file format. The file is uploaded with an RSS file by the creator to a server, then downloaded by the user for listening on a computer or other device with headphones or a speaker.

What makes a podcast special is how they are delivered to the user. They are downloaded automatically by software capable of reading feed formats such as RSS or Atom. The software is always-on when the user’s computer starts and runs in the background.

Listeners not need an MP3 player to hear the podcast; their computer does all the work. In fact, 80% of all podcasts are consumed on the PC which they were downloaded.

Listen to a podcast about podcasting. Too bad that I could not figure out how to make an alliteration out that sentence.

Vodcasts
Video podcasting, sometimes referred to as vodcasting or vidcasting, is video-on-demand. It is almost identical to podcasting except the content is video versus audio. The content is also more likely to be played on a personal computer than on a personal media assistant. It may be delivered as a file or as a stream. Estreaming is a form of Vodcasting.

"Learn More About" Multimedia

NOTE: Select one multimedia to learn more about, then Read, Watch and Do the corresponding activities and resources.

1. Read one of the following wikipedia articles:
Photosharing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_sharing (Time Commitment 5 minutes)
Podcasting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting (Time Commitment 5 minutes)
Video Podcasting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_podcast (Time Commitment 5 minutes)

2. Watch one of the following videos on YouTube
Online Photosharing in Plain English at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk (Time Commitment 3:00)
Podcasting in Plain English at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c (Time Commitment 3:00)
Adventures in Videocasting at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI5WicdpiU (Time Commitment 4:45)

3. Do one of the following tutorials:
Photosharing - Flickr Tutorial at http://www.flickr.com/tour/ (Time Commitment 5 mintues)
Vidcasting - FreeVlog tutorial at http://www.freevlog.org/ (Time Commitment 15 minutes)
Podcasting - Podcasting Guide at http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/podcasting-tutorial.html (15 minutes)

Hands On Activity

Add a Blog Post about one of the three different types of multimedia

• Select the new post link in your dashboard or the create link under the Posting tab.
• Use the compose tab to type a brief message about your experience with this hands-on activity. Questions to get you started: How can you use multimedia in your work? How easy was it to learn about multimedia?
• Label your post: Week 5 - Multimedia
• When you have finished typing and are ready to publish your thoughts, select the orange button, "publish post". This will add the post to your blog. If you select the blue button, "save now", the blog post will be added to your list of posts for editing and publishing at a later time.

Important Tips

1. Due to bandwidth issues, please try to do your work for this week at off - peak Internet usage times during the business day.

Keep going! You're doing a great job. Comment on this blog post and tell us what you think of this lesson.