Thinking About Learning

In support of my efforts to promote blogging at my school, I have produced a couple of very simple videos about blogging.  One is for teachers (embedded in an earlier post) and one is for students, introducing the concepts of blogging.  Originally I produced the videos in PhotoStory.  When I uploaded them to TeacherTube and played them, they kept hanging up with buffering.  Needless to say, this was not satisfactory to me.  Who wants to watch a video that keeps stalling?  I have spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to redo them in a format that would play smoothly.  Ultimately I used Movie Maker to upload the images, an iPod to record the narrations, and then imported those audio files into Movie Maker.  This version of the video plays just fine in TeacherTube, but the transitions are not as interesting as with PhotoStory.  Click here for Blogging for Beginners.  Anyone have any tips for using PhotoStory videos with TeacherTube?

On a personal note, my nephew, Joshua, won his school spelling bee today for the 2nd year in a row.  You rock, Joshua!!!