Domain Names

Legitimate Domain Name Registrars

Yahoo Small Business

GoDaddy

1and1

DomainsBot - site to help you come up with a Domain Name

Cher's Website- a former students website. It has a nicely laid out resume that you can model yours after.

Tips on choosing the right domain name

More tips on choosing a domain name

Please provide me a copy of your completed MashUp as a .mov file

Hello all, I would like a copy of your completed mashup video as a .mov file so that I can loop them all and play them on the TV outside of the classroom. Below is a video detailing how to do that. Please be sure to select the highest quality option available.

Class is cancelled for Monday, November 19th

Hello all, 

I am canceling class on Monday, November 19th so that I can attend my uncle's funeral. So, you don't have to come to class. The next time we will meet is Monday, November 26.

Your video still needs to be posted on November 19th.

If you have any drawings or paintings or whatever that you need to digitize for use on your website, please bring them back to school with you upon your return from break.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Video mashups due Monday the 19th

Hello all,
A friendly reminder that your videos must be hosted on your blog before class starts on Monday. All computers will remain off during class on Monday. We will spend the class watching your mashups. If you have any troubles with your videos, email me by Sunday.

1. With your project open in iMovie,  click the share button in the menu bar and select YouTube.
2. Choose your YouTube account or create a new one (I suggest you create your YouTube account beforehand if you don't yet have one).
3. Confirm your sign in.
4. Select the category, name, description, and tags for your video.
5. Select your publish size (select the highest quality option available) and click Next
5.5 Be sure to turn off the option that says "Make your video Private" If that is selected, no one but you will be able to watch it. 
6. Now click the publish button.
7. Your video will be ready to watch on youtube in 2-120 minutes.
8. One your video is available on YouTube, copy the embed code and use it embed the video on your blog.
9. Test it. Make sure it plays correctly on your blog.
Still Confused? Refer to this write up on Apple's website.

Building will be open on Veteran's Day

Building will be open on Veteran's Day eventhough there won't be any classes in session.

More on mash ups

Wall Street Journal video story on mashups

Disney has online mashup tools aimed at kids

Excellent collection of mashups on Huffington Post

The mashup up/musician Pogo's website

Pogo video on how me makes mashups



More on Audio editing in iMovie

Good summary of the more advanced audio editing features.

Video overview of the more advanced audio editing features.

Great tutorial on working with more than one track in iMovie. It is written for iMovie 08, but it works the same way in iMovie 11.

How to save your video files to a hard drive to have a backup of your project. 

Monday November 9th and next several classes

We will spend the next 4 classes on the Video Mashup. It is due, completed, hosted on YouTube or Vimeo, and embedded on your blog before class on Monday, November 19th. No extensions will be given.

Today, I will introduce you to some more features of iMovie. I will also discuss how to rip a DVD for use in your mashup. We will use Handbrake to do so. It is available for Windows and Macs and it's free. If you are going to use it on a Mac, you also need to install VLC Media Player which is a really great free video player that has some features that Handbrake needs to work properly. If you are going to use Handbrake on a PC, then you will also likely need to also install DVD43. It is a utility that decrypts encrypted DVDs. It is also free.

Tutorial on using Handbrake and DVD43 on a Windows machine to rip a DVD.

Tutorial on using Handbrake to rip a DVD on a Mac.

To download movies from YouTube or Vimeo you can use WantYouTube.com or KeepVid.com. Both require that you have Java on your computer and allow a special java applet to run. As far as I am aware, both are safe to use. I use both on my laptop. I prefer WantYouTube.com because it doesn't have misleading advertisements trying to get you to download things you don't want like KeepVid does.
 
If you need to download HULU video, you can try following this tutorial. For PCs only. Reading the HULU section of this article may help you understand the process better.

Tutorial on removing the Digital Rights Management (DRM) from movies/videos purchased from iTunes. I haven't tried this to see if it works or not.