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If you think you want a parrot, watch this first:
June 21st, 2009
May 15th, 2009
May 11th, 2009
I recut my video sentence for better synchronization between the music and the images and sent it to my mother on Mother's Day. So my learning continues. I retitled it "Rami and Honey: Forever Sharing a Laugh." "Rami" was the title my granddaughter's baby chatter bestowed upon my late husband; I used to call him Rami the Swami for his ability to charm her into laughter.
FYI, the photo on the deck was taken at a winery we toured in Napa Valley in June 2006, a little more than a year before he died.
I will continue to make family videos to hone my skills, and I have projects planned for a class I'm teaching this fall that focuses on East Texas culture.
FYI, the photo on the deck was taken at a winery we toured in Napa Valley in June 2006, a little more than a year before he died.
I will continue to make family videos to hone my skills, and I have projects planned for a class I'm teaching this fall that focuses on East Texas culture.
May 6th, 2009
A video sentence was a piece of cake after creating that trailer! AND I figured out how to embed it in my entry. BTW, The sentence has a compound noun, verbs in a list, and a semicolon.
May 5th, 2009
Hello class friends, I've been largely inactive on this blog this semester. I addressed some all-encompassing life and health issues during this semester (and continue to do so), but I'm oh, so much better these days.
I actually have something to share with you. Please check out my trailer for the final video project! It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ubF
I'm interested to know what you think of this little production. I had to overcome a great deal of anxiety to produce it!! ;-)
I also have an audio essay that I have not yet figured out a way to share--it won't upload successfully to YouTube, and I can't upload the file to the Live Journal server. I'm certain the CLIC guys can help me with it.
I actually have something to share with you. Please check out my trailer for the final video project! It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ubF
I'm interested to know what you think of this little production. I had to overcome a great deal of anxiety to produce it!! ;-)
I also have an audio essay that I have not yet figured out a way to share--it won't upload successfully to YouTube, and I can't upload the file to the Live Journal server. I'm certain the CLIC guys can help me with it.
happyMarch 7th, 2009
I'm beginning this journal as part of a course titled Writing in New Media, which I'm taking at Texas A&M Commerce where I'm a student in the Literature and Languages Ph.D. program. In the spirit of this wonderful course, taught by Dr. Shannon Carter, I intend to make use of the journal in my courses at Northeast Texas Community College, just as I will the audio/video composing skills I'm learning. I will also maintain the journal for my own purposes, of course.
The learning in Writing New Media has been challenging! Not only am I using technology that heretofore was foreign to me, but I'm also in the process of emerging from a life stage. Today, 7th Mar. 2009, is the eighteen-month anniversary of my sweet husband Randy's death from cancer. The work of coming to grips with the loss and of transitioning to a new age of life has interfered with all of my coursework this semester because I've worked on a particularly hard piece of the transition. However, the season of renewal surrounds me these days with a warmer wind and the budding of trees and and flowers, and I sense that same season within me as well. I'm happy these days.
This is the third incarnation of my life. The first incarnation comprised my childhood and child-rearing years; the first flowed into the second, and I matured and changed until that life hardened around me like a cocoon. I came forth from it into my second incarnation, my life with Randy, during which time I became a grandmother, a college writing teacher, and a self-actualized old hippie. Randy's death hardened that life around me. I emerge now as ... well, as what? I'm a calmer, more peaceful person. I live alone for the first time in my life. I conquer fear more easily. The rest remains unknown, and that is okay.
The learning in Writing New Media has been challenging! Not only am I using technology that heretofore was foreign to me, but I'm also in the process of emerging from a life stage. Today, 7th Mar. 2009, is the eighteen-month anniversary of my sweet husband Randy's death from cancer. The work of coming to grips with the loss and of transitioning to a new age of life has interfered with all of my coursework this semester because I've worked on a particularly hard piece of the transition. However, the season of renewal surrounds me these days with a warmer wind and the budding of trees and and flowers, and I sense that same season within me as well. I'm happy these days.
This is the third incarnation of my life. The first incarnation comprised my childhood and child-rearing years; the first flowed into the second, and I matured and changed until that life hardened around me like a cocoon. I came forth from it into my second incarnation, my life with Randy, during which time I became a grandmother, a college writing teacher, and a self-actualized old hippie. Randy's death hardened that life around me. I emerge now as ... well, as what? I'm a calmer, more peaceful person. I live alone for the first time in my life. I conquer fear more easily. The rest remains unknown, and that is okay.
