(via Bryan Alexander) The Village Voice offers a pretty interesting piece on blogging in academia, including quotes from my hero.

“I’ve published a bunch of articles in law reviews, and I think I’ve gotten maybe a total of 10 letters about them in the history of my career as an academic,” he says. “I publish stuff on the blog, I get literally hundreds of e-mails about things all the time.”

It’s a wonderful thing.

But here is the blogging (the verb) quote, from six-year (!) blogger Josh Kortbein:

I write my blog because I wish that things were different, and I’m thinking about how to make them that way.

That feels right from where I sit, too. Blogs as platform. That’s what blogging is…

So taking a cue from Bud the Teacher, I checked out Jon Udell’s post on how he creates his screencasts with Windows Media Encoder. I’d been trying to use Camtasia to do some inhouse training stuff, but it was really difficult to get the right file format and configurations to work with our servers and Windows Media Player. But Encoder did the trick. Really easy, and when I play the file off of our server, it looks crystal clear at full screen. The audio needs a bit of work, but I feel like I’m over a little hump with this.

So anyway, here is a Wikipedia for Educators screencast. It’s about five minutes long, and it could be much better with a bit more planning, but you get the idea. I’ve added it to my feed as an enclosure as well, now that Manila lets me do that. Let me know if something doesn’t work.

On My Mind
So taking a cue from Bud the Teacher, I checked out Jon Udell’s post on how he creates his screencasts with Windows Media Encoder. I’d been trying to use Camtasia to do some inhouse training stuff, but it was really difficult to get the right file format and configurations to work with our servers and Windows Media Player. But Encoder did the trick. Really easy, and when I play the file off of our server, it looks crystal clear at full screen. The audio needs a bit of work, but I feel like I’m over a little hump with this.

So anyway, here is a <a href=”http://static.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/gems/techcentral/Wikipedia.wmv”>Wikipedia for Educators </a>screencast. It’s about five minutes long, and it could be much better with a bit more planning, but you get the idea. I’ve added it to my feed as an enclosure as well, now that Manila lets me do that. Let me know if something doesn’t work.

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