Video Sharing as an Information Tool for the Public Library
Reflection and Learning Process
I decided to use YouTube as my format for videosharing, and I have to admit I have been anxious, worried, and excited about this project! Firstly, as background, I filmed the above Youtube video using a Sony Handycam with HD capabilities. The camera is amazing picture quality, I found out afterwards that it's the same camera that the journalists use in their fieldwork! Thank you to the trust, and generousity of my friends, and colleagues at the library. So I put together a short script and had our Children's Programmer film the library tour, I was excited! Then, I was going out of my mind, I got the cable for the video camera to upload onto the PC, and found out that Sony has its own programming software (that I didn't have) - they are MTS files. I tried to download them into MPEG or Windows, or anything! I had just about given up, then I went online and type into the google search "downloading MTS files into a MPEG", and it lead me to a site:
www.avs4you.comI took the MTS files and converted them into MPEG and wmv files, just in case the MPEG didn't work - it took me over 5.5 hours to download everything. I went to a premiere screening this weekend of a very close friend of mine that has a NFB film in the Internation Film Festival, and I told her how long it took me she said and I quote "wow, that's not very long, good for you". I thought to myself, it's all about perspective! I have had a couple of people ask me, "while you are doing all this are you keeping track of how you get things done?" Very good advice indeed, I can relate my learning to social constructivism, where you learn by doing, using the online community to guide me in order to facilitate that independence the next time. As web noted from Wikipedia (September 27, 2009: 5:05 pm):
Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge that applies the general philosophical constructionism into social settings, wherein groups con