Week 5 - Multimedia

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 45 to 50 minutes.

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 YouTubeOnline 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)

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.

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