Tutorials for video assignment

In preparation for the video assignment, I’ve collected some information to get you started:

Paull Young, social media strategist at Converseon, talks to Dr. Kaye Sweetser’s class about viral videos.

Tutorial on the Flip camera – what happens when you plug it into your computer (pdf file)
iMovie tutorials
Windows Movie Maker tutorials

Flip camera support website – this is [...]

WordPress video tutorials – from WordPress!

Need help with anything WordPress, such as…

How to write a new post?
How to add categories and tags to your posts?
How to manage your sidebar and add different widgets (i.e. blogroll, categories, etc.)?

The great news is you no longer have to make do with Dr. V’s home-made video tutorials!
WordPress has just launched a series of video-tutorials [...]

How to embed YouTube videos in your blog posts

See this screencast tutorial to learn how to embed videos from YouTube right in the middle of your blog post (like I did in my previous post).
It would be cool if I could embed the screencast right here in the blog post, wouldn’t it? Unfortunately, I can’t do that, because it’s a Flash file and [...]

Think you know how to google?

Check out his very short and as always, brilliant video from Common Craft. Even if you think you know how to use search engines, I bet there will be a tip or two in this video you didn’t know about:

Google Reader explained by Common Craft

Just after I created my lame tutorial, the pros at Common Craft came out with a nifty explanation of Google Reader. One minute, totally worth it! See their other great explanations of RSS feeds and blogs, also in this post:

RSS feeds explained in under 4 minutes:

And blogs [...]

Creating a new blog post

The final tutorial for today allows you to witness the steps I go through as I create a new blog post. In this tutorial I talk you through each step as I actually do it, so you can see exactly what I click, how I insert links, and how easy it is to create blog [...]

Blog terms tutorials

Here are 3 very brief tutorials (about 2 minutes each) that teach you the basic terms of blogging.
The first tutorial teaches the terms Blog, Blog post, and Blog page.
The second tutorial teaches the terms Blog URL, Permalink, Comment, and Trackback
The third tutorial teaches about Tags, Tag clouds, Blogrolls and how to find blogs about public [...]

WordPress dashboard overview

Here is another brief tutorial that provides an overview to the WordPress dashboard. If you have any questions about editing your blog, please ask them in the comments section for this post.

Using Google Reader to subscribe to blogs

Here is a tutorial on how to use Google Reader to subscribe to blog RSS feeds. If you don’t know what RSS feeds are, that’s OK, they’re explained in the video (duration: about 3 minutes).
Please ask any questions in the comments to this post.