loftymom

How long I have wanted to do this. I made a regular audio podcast (just something silly to practice with Audacity), and I made a few edited educational videos that I posted on YouTube. In theory, I know exactly how to make a video podcast then.

I had to give back the Canon 800z video camera when I resigned my school job, and my old digital camera only shoots tiny 30 second 15 frame per second clips that are noisy and orange. My old nokia brick shoots video too, but I never have purchased the transfer cable to get the shots out of the gallery and onto my computer.

I have an Ipod with a nice little Belkin rcorder that sounds fantastic. I had the idea I would just go buy a halfway decent digital camera that also took video clips in avi at 30 fps. Can’t find one that takes an external mic though. Seems maybe I should just buy another little Canon or JVC mini dvi tape camcorder. The recording quality was plenty good and it took a mic. However, I had hoped for something more unobtrusive, even like a helmet cam or one that fits on eyeglasses, so I could do interviews and just capture it more naturally.

I am also wondering if a really nice corded shotgun mic will work with my ipod. How much video will I want to edit with sound overlays? What do I need to understand about the entire image recording, encoding, and compression process to know if a digital still camera has sufficient recording capacity?

I want a vocabulary that I can teach students with. Sure they probably know more than me to start with, but not all of them do, and very few of my freinds do.

I’ve started some domains, some different blogs, and now struggle with focus. I feel like I want to write, but to myself, and that is too much trouble outside of my paper journal. Real blogging, on a topic, for people who might benefit by stopping by is another kind of writing I want to do, but I am struggling with focus.

Lorelle on WordPress has some great encouragement and guidance:

“The best part of blogging with a narrow blog focus is that I have less self doubt about my abilities and my ability to blog. I know my subject matter. I know it from a variety of perspectives. I’m constantly challenging my information, resources, sources, and expertise as I write on the subject from different angles and points of view”

As you consider your blog’s focus, I want you to look at your entire life, all the threads that make up the tapestry of your life. They all make you, the resulting “fabric” of your life as it is right now. On that fabric you will find colors and patterns repeating themselves. Loudly. Vibrantly. Or possibly they are subtle and almost invisible, but when you look with fresh eyes, they start to stand out from the rest of the threads.

Lorelle prompts me to look for passion threads that “repeat themselves throughout the fabric” of my life and how “that could define the blog’s focus and content.” I’ve been doing a lot of this, and am choosing now to post publicly as a matter of showing myself progress toward goal, and holding myself in some small way accountable to write.

I’m an educational technologist for Pete’s sake! People call me the technology queen! I know STUFFF about all kinds of tech things, Web 2.0, networks, code and the geeky works. BUT how come when a friend changes her blog platform and I know this, so I delete the old URL from Google Reader and subscribe to the new one, it doesn’t show up in any of the usual places?

Dang, and there are SO many readers. RSS, syndication, aggregation, little orange subscribe icons, Feedburner Etc ad nauseum….I want to figure all this out once and for all. When I do, if anybody stumbles on my blog posts, I will explain everything…once I understand.