Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Funerals and Flip Bits

I didn't have alot of time to play with the video we took yesterday on the new Flip Ultra. However, I was able to download it on my PC (we had downloaded it on an apple last night). Seems that the software contained in the Flip iteself works pretty well with both the Mac and the PC. Deb put the video on her computer first and there was an upgrade to download. I'm assuming this is to match the software features that are now coming with the Flip Mino (the newest version and probably the camera I'm going to try and get). So the software was ready to go when I put it on my PC.

Although most of the readings listed the maximum storage time at 60 minutes. I noticed that we got 67:08 minutes on our first day and still had room to go. We took a total of 61 video shots and to download all the footage onto my computer only took 5 minutes. I didn't think that was bad. That's about as far as I got since we had to go to a funeral (see blog on Funerals for whom). He was a colleague. In his obituary was a line he used to use in his classes. I don't think he mind if I passed on the tradition. In every class he'd ask his students "Name 3 people who care you are here" and if the student didn't include themselves his response was "if you don't care, why should they?" Words to live by from a wise old soul who left his mark on the educational journey of thousands. Here's to you DS!

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