The presentation

(This is a reply to web-link)

I told the students that replying to my own posting would be somewhat pathetic, but now I'm doing it anyway :-). I talked and showed the system as well as a couple of vlogs for like 7-8 minutes. I talked about vided.org and videoblogging and was hoping for some of the students to want to try vided.org, or even go to like www.videoblogging.info to explore their possibilities on their own. All in all, I got to way a lot. I'm still not completely satisfied with my talk, for several reasons.

1. Unclear; what do I really want from you? (I want to inform, encourage, and I want you to try vided.org. And world peace.)

2. Why not give the students a webpage where they could sign up right away? Good idea, but I want the students to fill out a questionnaire _before_ they start using vided.org. This isn't finished yet, I'm sorry! (signup is coming to a webpage near you THIS WEEK).

3. I'm not experienced in talking to like 150 students. I hope my nervousity wasn't too obvious...

OK. What I would want to talk more about was:

1. Vlogging as a new medium, new possibilites, enabling vodcasts in iTunes as well as FireANT. And possibly also directly to your living room TV in a few years time.

2. I would describe vlogging/vided.org as an excellent tool for a media student for learning about media, publishing, getting responses, cooperative editing, getting better at writing.

3. The vlog community. The creativity. The fantastic work that's beeing done both by programmers and media creators.

Hopefully, I will get the chance when appearing at a few study-groups, as well as a few actually reading this.

29 August 2005

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