NZ Book Council - Going West
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Here's one I prepared earlier:
The two tools I used to make it are (excluding Firefox):
- Capture Fox the screencasting add on for Firefox
- Miksoft's Mobile Media Converter "free fast and easy" it converts most audio formats and many video formats into many others, for this job it will render the big fat AVI file Capture Fox produces as small lean MP4 or WMV video
PS: As anonymous comments below there is a Beta version available here which compresses the AVI file better. Using Miksoft's converter will still give much smaller file sizes, but for people who don't like technology the new version would make it a one step process instead of two. And probably many of you have less students on dialup still or poor "broadband" than we have in NZ ;) So a great tool is getting better.
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¶ 2:48 PM
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New version includes compression. It's experimental but you can download it.
By 
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May 30, 2009 7:11 PM
It reminds me why Illich is so important, still. We (meaning teachers) get so caught up in the technology of teaching (meaning not equipment, but learning outcomes, clear syllabuses, marking criteria and the rest of the techniques which we are told will make or teaching better - or at least better fitted to the educational system of which we are a part).
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I find it a little troubling. Aren't there places in the world where the teaching example is important for the inspiration of a few individual who will in this way realize a potential they might otherwise have missed? I am thinking too of the schools for girls in Afghanistan which the insurgency does not want - or your school in 'far away places' that you taught in. The interaction with one teacher - it is personal - will encourage as much as 'amo amas amat' and other tabular forms of rote learning might discourage.
BTW - I have had some real success with one 11-year-old over the past 10 months. He is inspired by the 5 minutes a week on a single Hebrew word or letter and has started with his Mum some weekly 1 hour lessons in reading Hebrew - his speed is marvelous and his daily practice makes him his mother's teacher already - after just two lessons! I will close my eyes and pray the little scholar can find his feet and keep enjoying learning.
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Bob MacDonald, at
March 12, 2009 10:41 AM
Hi Tim,
I had some thoughts on this video at http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/illich-makes-a-come-back-at-last/, where I first saw it. Illich's work is very useful however in some ways we might compare him with Marx's work on capitalism - a very good critique, but not much in the way of a viable and sustainable alternative. Learning from Illich is not the same thing as doing things his way, something I am very grateful for.
By Nichthus, at
March 12, 2009 11:06 AM
The comment Mark (Nichthus) mentions is here It is (as you'd expect, sensible and worth reading!
Bob: personally I read Illych as a critic. I don't take everything as a program to follow. I would not have spent more than 25 years teaching if I thought teaching was worthless. But I do believe that too often teaching and learning get caught up in educational systems which prioritise mass production of "knowledge" at the expense of either developing real skills or the wisdom to use them (knowledge and skills) well.
Mark: I wish we listened more and more effectively to Illych's critique. I love your Marx parallel. In both cases I would not want to become an "ist" (Marxist, or Illychist) but I find both have a lot to say about what is wrong with the world ;)
By Tim, at
March 14, 2009 7:20 PM
The "Subjects" tab lists: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religion so there's something for everyone!
Except...
The only entry under "Religion" is Christine Hayes fine series Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible). And we already know about those lectures... where are all the other Biblical Scholars? What makes Biblical Studies so ungenerous, so unwilling to share?
If your institution has a less "dog in the manger" attitude to teaching about the Bible than my employers do please go to the page about partnering with Academic Earth, you may earn no cash, but you might raise your reputation and assist people with fewer resources...
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¶ 7:24 AM
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What a great resource. Thanks for pointing me to it.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on your own posted question: 'What makes Biblical Studies so ungenerous, so unwilling to share?'
By Jason Goroncy, at
February 3, 2009 1:29 PM
Well... if no one else is willing to show and tell, maybe I'll have to go first, but I would rather hear some other ideas before posting mine - but I promise I do intend to post my experiences in this area ;)
By Tim, at
February 3, 2009 4:32 PM
To put this video on your webpage or blog use this code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/48fb8d0a8f9814e0/46928cc5788deb29/3b4c67e/-cpid/a2bbe86b39c0d5c1/autostart/false/repeat/false/widget.js"></script>
The photos are all from Flickr with CC licenses, here are the credits:
Photos by freecultureNYU, biblicone, kretyen, Edward B., futureatlas.com, terren in Virginia, Alan Joyce, liewcf, GeoWombats, Wonderlane, knowhimonline, the bright and morning star, nexus6
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¶ 8:39 AM
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That's slow?!?!
What a fabulous video!!! The images were superb. Where did you get them?
I think I was grasping at the end for a little bit more of a direct connection between the message of the video and PodBible. Maybe something explicit like "PodBible: downloadable to your mp3 player--the whole Bible." Or something like that.
Just thinking...
By David Ker, at
October 20, 2008 9:38 AM
Wait till you see the version I'm working on now ;)
The images are all from Flickr and should be credited, since I did not spot the credit slide in the show I'll add the names to the post here and the YouTube page... I hope that complies with the CC license...
I'll have to pay for Animoto to get the ability to stick a message like that on the end, but it probably is worth me paying for it.
By Tim, at
October 20, 2008 9:46 AM
Only the first and last hour of the marathon are on the normal TV channel of the state broadcaster. The rest is on one of the broadcaster's satellite channels, so not very accessible to Italians (although it can be watched live on Internet as well). This created quite a few complaints from Italians - I have had more comments on this fact than on any other on my blog. I don't believe there are only plans to distribute the video after the event. By the way, most of the readers are not celebrities, but "normal" people that signed up to read a chapter.To me this just indicates the failure of traditional models of distribution to get to grips with the possibilities of electronic media.
forget baby photos in the wallet,
they've got kid videos on their cell phones
The failure is driven by the need to be commercial, and only advertising and porn make money on the Internet. With a different model - in this case one that the Bible societies (I include many organisations with somewhat different names under this blanket heading hence the small S) have been doing for years - you could harness the possibilities of the electronic medium and maximise distribution. Set the Bible free and unexpected people will hear... and hearing they might understand.
But how can they hear if the message is hidden away! "Broadcast" on a cable channel, or sold on DVDs is very narrow casting indeed ;) And in the world of Bible distribution, that is a con. People donate money to Bible societies to distribute the Bible, the means are available to do this almost infinitely more widely and freely than ever before. All that is needed is imagination and the willingness to take a small risk. Nike have the right slogan, just do it! Video a score of NZ celebrities reading Mark's gospel as a serial story, then set the video free, you can even sell DVDs to recoup some of the costs, and watch the fun!
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¶ 6:07 AM
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Preach it brother!
By David Ker, at
October 8, 2008 7:48 AM
Have you seen this? Pope begins Bible-reading marathonWhat a neat way to use the pope's star status!
I could not help wondering what would happen if BibleSoc and the Scripture Union's Christians in sport group (and a few others) got together and got NZ celebrities to read a gospel. It might not get on free to air TV here, but it could be cheap (by TV standards) to make, at least if the celebs volunteered their time. It could also go on DVD and YouTube so get wide distribution. Even with some imagination, become a serial story, stopping at exciting places and distributed by mobile phone as well as the other routes.
What a way to get Kiwis in touch with the Bible! And the cumulative impact of a whole bunch of celebs could really help make faith cool. Each of them would only have to give an hour or so of their time...
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¶ 9:37 AM
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I'm quite interested in the logistics. How will it be published/archived?
An important distinction for me between this and PodBible is they are targeting bigshots rather than everyman. I can see that as being a very effective strategy in Africa where if the bishops and superintendents of churches signed up to do reading it would legitimize the translation.
By David Ker, at
October 7, 2008 12:57 PM
I don't know about the "real" PopeBible, I suspect that it will only be available commercially on TV and DVD.
What I'd envisage is using the celebs and making it as widely available as possible, just think of kids SEEING that a whole bunch of celebs think the Bible is worth spending time to read... that's my vision. Plus I don't live in a "Christian country" like Italy, in NZ we'd have difficulty getting TV time, so we'd need to go under the radar and aim for mass distribution.
By Tim, at
October 7, 2008 1:06 PM
PS, I can see how in Africa a "Bishops' Bible" could be a really good way to "sell" a new translation - <WickedThought> it would also be flattering to the bishops asked to read, which should help persuade them ;) </WickedThought>
By Tim, at
October 7, 2008 1:10 PM
To clarify something in the article: Only the first and last hour of the marathon are on the normal TV channel of the state broadcaster. The rest is on one of the broadcaster's satellite channels, so not very accessible to Italians (although it can be watched live on Internet as well). This created quite a few complaints from Italians - I have had more comments on this fact than on any other on my blog. I don't believe there are only plans to distribute the video after the event. By the way, most of the readers are not celebrities, but "normal" people that signed up to read a chapter.
¶ 7:50 AM
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Yeah, that's a good 'un.
I wonder if your impressions of the two services match mine?
BTW in both cases the default settings were used. Otherwise I'd have "shrunk" the Blip version ;)
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Check out Veoh as well. Blip and Veoh are a tie for online video quality. What puts blip over the edge is its ability to also make the videos available as high quality mp4 videos for podcasting.
For multiple video presentation, blip needs some work. The best free video host for hosting multiple videos, in my opinion, is Brightcove. You can see an example of many videos presented in one player on ADC's website: http://adc.acadiau.ca/continuing_education/simpson_lectures/
This player is holding a lecture series from 1990 to 2008, 2-3 lectures each.
By Danny Zacharias, at
August 25, 2008 2:19 PM
Hi,
Video sharing is all the rage these days. We all want to share our videos, to share our passions and the things we like. There are so many sites around to publish our videos on the web that it is sometimes hard to make a choice. We know some of them like YouTube, Revver or Dailymotion, but there are so many others competing to be the number one, or targeting a specific audience, whether geographically (China, Japan, Turkey...), by language (German, Arabic, French...) or for the kind of content they enable to publish (cooking, planes, extreme sports...).
I have compiled a growing list of more than 780 video sharing sites, video search engines, and video download sites that you can check at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com
For each of them, you will get useful information such as their history, the country from which most of their visitors come, their niche, their rank, their latest news...
This site offers some other interesting features, like a forum about online videos, how to make money with your videos, how to create your own YouTube site, etc.
So if you are interested in video sharing or online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it.
Cheers
By I like sharing videos, at
August 26, 2008 9:50 AM
So you also try uploading it to FeAutor -- where not only is there video sharing and live streaming, but you get a Creative Commons license in addition.
By Mary E, at
August 28, 2008 1:55 PM
This is great fun, and is driving a burst of creativity and colaboration. This easy availability of great free services is in large part responsible for the hype over Web 2.0 (which somehow refuses to fade quietly into the background like other twee slogans - but is rather perhaps being mainstreamed ;)
Yet there are feet of clay to all this. In the 1990s many of us started our first websites on "free" hosts like Geocities, but soon moved on to paying hosts. In that case it was advertising that caused many of us to move. Other were driven by restrictive policies or lack of space. Something similar could happen to the current crop of great "free" services.
As GOS the "Unofficial news and tips about Google" blog recently noted in a post about Google Page Creator closing:
This year, Google discontinued a lot of services: Browser Sync, Hello, Send to SMS and Send to Phone extension.So, how safe are free services? The provider can drop or change them at any time. Don't rely on them! Use a free online file conversion tool, if you need to convert a few files in a hurry, but not if you convert files regularly. Use a free video sharing tool, to share video freely (Blip.tv seems the best at hosting, but YouTube draws more of an audience) but if reliability matters to you, do make sure you have a backup plan!
Free is fun, but it is also vulnerable. Google is great - as a search engine (though even there one shudders to recognise the power they wield) but not to be trusted with your website!
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¶ 6:09 AM
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I'm sorry, I can't agree with you. First, paid services fail with alarming frequency. Second, Google Pages is being phased out in favor of a more powerful system, Google Sites. Better than browser sync are a number of private services including Foxmarks. Hello is of course superseded by Gtalk. Send to SMS (and its related service, Send to Phone extension) was discontinued at the request of phone providers, but Google provides more powerful services, including better support for mobile phone access and GrandCentral.
So, if you said "you can't count on free services because they are often improved and replaced by better services" I would agree with you.
However, I would keep backups even with paid services.
By Iyov, at
August 20, 2008 4:14 PM
Stephen also commented:
For quick and dirty format conversions, resizing and cropping I use IrfanView. Does the trick for most simple tasks and is quick to start up.IrfanView is also brilliant, a fast viewer that also does many of the most commonly needed editing tasks. I have not yet tried out any of the plugins, so up to now I cannot comment on video in IrfanView, but for graphics it is great!
If anyone has tried the video plugins please comment about how well they work - is this program a substitute for Windows Media Player as well?
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I use Irfanview a lot and my kids like it too. We don't use it for video or as a substitute for WMP. But it's great for cropping, resizing and conversion which I seem to do a lot. My kids are quite artistic with plain old Paint and have created entire adventure games full of graphic soldiers, snakes and monsters using that program plus a little HTML.
By David Ker, at
July 26, 2008 2:20 AM
Here's the list of graphics programs I've used:
http://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/2007/04/regarding-images-and-such.html
By mgvh, at
July 26, 2008 6:15 AM
David, are the games online for others to see?
By Tim, at
July 26, 2008 1:37 PM
You might want to look at VLC for video playing tasks too. The transcoding wizard (and the fact it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux) makes it invaluable for me. You can add codecs to it too.
By Stephen G, at
July 26, 2008 11:09 PM
It was great to begin this first ever SBL in New Zealand in a culturally appropriate way with the visitors being welcomed to the University Marae, to the University and to the country. As so often though my delight in powwhiri was tinged with saddness, of only Māori custom could unbend enough to produce a geniuinely bicultural powhiri one for example in which the speeches were tailored to the presence of 90% of the participants who are not fluent in Te Reo (the Māori language) so shorter and accompanied by brief summary statements in English (like subtitles) so that the 90% could understand and appreciate the ceremony. Such a powhiri if regularly adopted for bicultural occasions, would I suspect take NZ by storm and become the only appropriate way to formally welcome visitors. Instead too often what we have is a mere cultural show - which ends up turning Māori into museum exhibits, rather than partners in a bicultural society.
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¶ 7:57 AM
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Yes, Tim. I was right up the front of the crowd waiting to go through the arch onto the marae, so I heard the two Maori explaining to the SBL president what was going to happen and what his role was in it all, so I had some idea what was happening. There are also some similarities between the function of the powhiri and the function of an Aboriginal Australian message stick, which is carried by visitors into the country of other peoples, so I had some 'hooks' to hang the experience on, but it was still a bit odd not hearing what had happened until after it had happened. I do hope our hosts were right about the ability of the powhiri to improve the standard of our conference presentations!! :-)
By Judy Redman, at
July 7, 2008 9:35 PM
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks!
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¶ 10:10 AM
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¶ 8:26 PM
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- Genesis 22 (Powerpoint)
- Genesis 1 (as a pyramid):
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¶ 6:59 AM
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Now he's trying to convince us that this format could be a good way to spread the Bible.He convinced me to spend a while playing with 3GP, if I cut the frame rate to slideshow proportions (just 1fps) and keep the audio low (but not too low) I can fit a whole short Psalm with pictures into less than 400KB. Judge for yourselves if it is worth it (just remember I spent more effort on the technical side than choosing photos - so there are lots of cute kids ;-)
Here is the 3gp version of Psalm 67 at only 368KB, and the WMV Psalm 67 at 1.97MB with much better picture quality to demonstrate what you lose in making it quite that small for a phone. (and a Flash version of Psalm 67 for Maccies at "only" 2.57MB!)
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¶ 2:27 PM
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Bravo Tim - your are a mobile wizard !!!
By Bob MacDonald, at
May 2, 2008 4:20 PM
Really cool. Welcome to the 21st century.
By David Ker, at
May 6, 2008 8:52 PM
BTW Ker not Kerr.
By David Ker, at
May 6, 2008 8:54 PM
Aaagh, I must NOT rely on my memory, especially not for names!
By Tim, at
May 7, 2008 6:29 AM
If you like it you can now buy the DVD here.
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¶ 3:52 PM
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Tim, this is the wrong place to comment but I don't see an e-mail address. I noticed on my Technorati thingumy that you linked to me, saying something nice-sounding but I couldn't read all of it. I also can't find where you linked to me, so could you let me know where that was? Thanks!
By Phil Sumpter, at
April 13, 2008 7:12 AM
Lack of contact addresses on blogs is a pain, maybe I'll start to put mine up, I get so much spam anyway...
I suspect the post was from February before I went off to strange places (see Teaching OT in faraway places) if so it was to tag you with the book meme: in the post HERE.
By Tim, at
April 13, 2008 1:20 PM
If it looks blurred, blame Flash compression, if it looks jerky I had no tripod (or whatever) and was using full optical (10x) AND digital (3x more giving 30x) zoom!
BTW over the next few weeks posting to this blog will stop, and probably hardly resume till mid-April, so please do subscribe to Teaching OT in faraway places we know we will find the experience interesting, fun and that we will learn a lot - we hope we (Barbara and Sarah will probably share writing the posts and taking the video/photos) can share that with you.
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¶ 7:47 AM
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Cathy Gunn (U of A) has posted a video of extracts from Mark Nichols presentation on e-portfolios (see also my post below) so now you can see what I meant, his "A movie or a snapshot?" really does explain why this matters. Unfortunately it was posted to an Apple site, so I can't embed it here (or at least I can't see how to...) sometimes Mac people are just SO proprietary - I wonder when a shareable YouTube pirate version will appear!?
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In the please-pray-for-Myanma video a few news clips, and in the Korean missionaries video some shots of the people being talked about could have enlivened the presentation. If many people watch these then perhaps the use of the medium will get more sophisticated - though hopefully still with the occasional and therefore low(ish) tech approach of these...
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¶ 1:17 PM
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This undated photograph made available by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows an archaeologist next to an opening of one of the ancient beehives found in excavations in Tel Rehov in northern Israel. Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found. (AP Photo / Amihai Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Image and text from AP
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¶ 6:59 AM
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October 4, 2007 6:05 AM
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¶ 9:52 AM
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My text was Matthew 5:17-48. A long, complex, and difficult passage! Basically I focused on the opening: where Jesus affirms unequivocally that he came to "fulfil" the Law and Prophets, and NOT to abolish them. Noticing how Jesus develops this in a series of examples where what he demands of us is stronger and harder than what Old Testament law requires. He closes the section saying: "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Mat 5:48) It's too long (at 30mins plus question time!) for 5 Minute Bible so I am posting it here:
- Matthew 5:17ff. : How to read the Old Testament (download 14MB)
- Matthew 5:17ff. : How to read the Old Testament (stream as you go)
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PS: I am still waiting for all the visitors to come flocking looking for Contrarians ;-)
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¶ 6:35 PM
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PS, to any future students reading this, I don't expect this quality of execution for the assignment, though I dream of getting it and astoundingly often do!
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OpenBible.info offers us lists of places mentioned in the Bible with associated with their locations. Or as OB's first post (kind of the opposite of the "Last Post"?) puts it, answering the question "Why this site?":
What this means now is a series of small files you can plugin to Google Earth (the post "How to Add KMLs to Google Earth" explains how) and double click to zoom to places mentioned in the Bible. So I started with Amos 1, and away I went.... I wonder could I record Google Earth animations of swooping from one tro another of the places in the Oracles against the Nations in chs.1-2, that could be fun and interesting... Meanwhile here's one that pictures the phrase "from Dan to Beersheba" ;-)Simple. It’s weird that no one’s ever collected basic biblical data—such as the locations of all the places in the Bible—into an accessible format.
Wow!
[Incidentally for those with Windows, or who are willing to download VLC the great media player for most OS here's a Windows Media version of the file that gives better quality for small file size ;-) Here's the link to view it on YouTube, or get the code to embed it in your blog.]
Now, having got the "wow" out of the way for a few minutes, here's why it is really important. This data, linking place names with locations has been collected, and made available under a Creative Commons licence. Which means that as long as they attribute the data people can correct it, and reuse it in new ways in new applications... Sean explains it well with lots of detail, so if you can't instantly see why this is significant read the post!
Scholars are inveterate examiners of the standards of dentistry in complimentary equines. So, I'll note that on the OpenBible.info front page their goal is expressed like this, to present: "The location of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible." Now, inevitable there are many judgement calls in such a list. Is Tell es-Seba`the biblical Beersheba? Or Tell es-Safi Gath? The fact that this data has been presented under a CC licence means that someone can produce a more cautious list, or a more adventurous one, depending on their needs and the use they plan for the data.
Data is used to grow knowledge, and knowledge can be used to develop understanding... BUT if the data is held in proprietary formats it can only be used by some privileged people... So, not merely "Wow!" but also grateful thanks for a fine job begun...
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Video formats
Well, serves me right for being impatient ;-) Mea Culpa, I did put up links to the Who is God? video before I made other formats available.In the past I've used Windows Media (15MB for the HQ version) and Real Media (under 10MB!) both of which give nice small files. However, it seems they are a problem for anyone using Mac or Linux. So, how about Apple's MOV format, looks nice, but at 52MB it's a bit on the hefty side (perhaps its the CODEC, but trying to use Apple's proprietary Sorenson CODEC was going to take more than 3 hours to convert, maybe I'll set it to work over lunch, could give me an excuse for a long lunch break!?); or the equally proprietary Flash format (34MB for the SWF)...
[NB I tried the free Riva FLV encoder, but could not get past the opening screen which did not display correctly, despite downloading from two different sites...]
Seriously, any comments on which formats "work" for you, and the quality/size issue would be great, and does anyone know a non-proprietary way to do this, that users can actually watch?
OK, this should please the iPod fans, here's the mp4 iPod format (just 31MB, and not too bad quality ;-)
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¶ 12:04 PM
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Sadly not. I use quick time, which is what my mac loves to export to, then use google video to host and playback. Their flash player is OK on most computers.
There is some quality loss, but less than Youtube. I like the share-ability of both sites, but I guess you have to ask if you want people to be able to embed into their sites.
By craig (mars-hill), at
December 20, 2006 12:17 PM
Tim, the video played in Quicktime on the iBook. The .m4v extension means that OS X really wants to copy it into iTunes to play it. Maybe change the extention to .mp4.
(BTW - the G3 based iBook struggled a few times with the video)
I'll pop it onto the iPod later and have a look at it there.
Why don't you start get all the biblioblogger people to compile a list of what they use to publish video online?
By Stephen G, at
December 20, 2006 5:43 PM
Hmm. If Craig's having problems playing it in Quicktime then it may be because you used the H.264 encoding which isn't supported by any version of Quicktime apart from version 7 on.
By Stephen G, at
December 20, 2006 5:47 PM
Can I get this right? Every version above, not only the PC native ones :
Windows Media (15MB for the HQ version)
Flash format (34MB so biggish)
Real Media (under 10MB!) though admittedly this needs a player download
But also:
MOV format, (looks nice, but 52MB big)
m4v iPod format (31MB but otherwise good)
But none of them is reliable on a Mac, unless I either fiddle with the filename - which BTW I've done now guys (and it STILL plays OK on a PC), or use ONLY Apple's proprietary encoding, and not the one that gives smaller files for Quicktime on PC. ...and they still claim the Mac as a user-friendly OS!
I think you've nearly succeeded in making me a Microsoft fan ;-)
By Tim, at
December 21, 2006 3:09 PM
Shouting Stones - seminar for churches
I've been giving myself some short breaks from the serious business of preparing next year's new courses (for the first semester 50% of three new ones) by working on a new short "video" introducing the seminar I offer for churches Shouting Stones: geography and archaeology reveal the Missionary God of the Old Testament. The full thing started life as a weekend camp, was cut down to just a few 50min academic hour sessions, and now I've made part one into a quarter of an hour's video called "Who is God?" (there is also a low bandwidth version).I wonder if I've used too many presentation slides and too few pictures, and also whether I should have adapted the material more as well as compressing or summarising... Do let me know what you think, I'm not really thin skinned! ¶ 5:24 PM
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(Insert imprecatory psalm about Windows Media codecs here)
Wouldn't play on the Mac (OS X 10.3.9) with Microsoft Media Player 9, nor with Quicktime with Flip4Mac installed, nor with the latest version of VLC.
Got sound (sort of), but lots of complaints about video.
Perhaps a different format would be more "open".
More info on Flip2Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
By Stephen G, at
December 18, 2006 8:12 PM
I'm with Stephen about the codecs. A superb tool is "Riva FLV Encoder" It will convert almost anything to flash (and almost anything to almost anything) another option would be the open source ffmpeg but you need a fairly high powered linux machine to make that work.
As for the video (which being a windows user I could watch) it is a very good (Web 1.0) presentation. I confess I did drift slightly once or twice. I like to put that kid of thing on while I do other stuff. I suspect that it depends upon your intended market. It would definitely make a good introduction to discussion in a conventional house group.
I have been thinking about how we best re imagine Christian learning in our current (western?) context. I think this kind of thing is a great idea if we could intertwine it with (web 2.0) interactivity.
Thanks for sharing it with is. (also thanks for the pod bible bookmarks, I must talk to you about that some time).
By Graham Doel, at
December 19, 2006 1:45 AM
Really liked the video. Anytime we can glorify the name! dt www.davetilma.com
By dt, at
January 14, 2007 2:46 PM
Thanks, Dave!
By Tim, at
January 15, 2007 6:57 AM
Same for me; no video, but some sound. I'd suggest using Flip4Mac: http://www.flip4mac.com/
Studio version. Very inexpensive and guarantees that everyone will be able to view the content. F4M is the most used piece of software on my Mac.
Looking forward to seeing the video.
By Antonio, at
January 24, 2007 5:52 AM
Nice one people, the consensus is none of the multiple formats in the post above works for every Mac user. So I need to buy Flip-4-Mac then the video will play on Macs. Trouble is I'd have to buy a Mac first to run Flipping-4-M. And people say MS uses too many proprietary formats ;-)
By Tim, at
January 24, 2007 9:14 AM
YouTube and shameless self-promotion ::
I mentioned the Carey video clips on YouTube a while back, but Mike has asked us all to draw attention to them, and Paul has blogged about them, so here's another bit of shameless self promotion the list of video clips is here (well, it is not exactly SELF promotion, do NOT watch the one with me in, just look at the others)!Labels: video
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