Update:
Another video used to demonstrate uploading a video to Youtube and onto Blogger.
I took this video of the display stand St. Matthew's Makerspace had at LACOE's Digital Educator Day 2015 workshop. It was really cool to see in person. I can't wait until our makerspace is getting on a roll.
UPDATE:
This is another demonstration video of how to upload. However, it's also a great example of the app Chatter Pix! Chatter Pix is so much fun. Take any photo, use your finger to cut a line, record the voice, and add stickers. Then, save/export to camera roll and you now have a fun little animation!
This would be great for kids and creating stories. You can create one of these, import it into Explain Everything, create a tutorial with this or edit them all together in iMovie as some of our Physics kids did! Super great!
UPDATE:
This is one of the first videos I used for my demo in uploading videos to Youtube to then later uploaded to Blogger. Although I didn't actually show the video to my kids, they certainly asked! I also created this using a photo of myself and my cat, pulled it into Chatter Pix and modified. I cannot stress how much fun this app can be. I saw a school present on this app a couple months ago; they had their students talk out the geometry concept using a cube shape character. The possibilities are endless.
The trials and tribulations or shall I say, limitation, of working on Blogger and Drive is that you cannot upload a video from your Drive account, which is crazy since Blogger is a Google App... Can we get that fixed please? Thank you.
Yes, you can upload from a computer. Yes, you can embed from Youtube. But you can't upload a video from your iPad or Google Drive.
This is a problem for my CBL blogging kids. One work around we are looking at is emailing it as a comment. This posting is a test of that... so let's see. [There were several tries before anything happened here... and a hard furrowed brow]
[UPDATE: I tried using the Mobile settings to email the post to oneself from camera roll and iMovie and I kept finding that the files were rejected for exceeding the file size. Tried it from the Mail app, GMail app, emailing straight from iMovie with a file size of Medium (360MB), emailing from camera roll... NOTHING. I finally downloaded the video file to computer's hard drive and uploaded it from there and yet, it was still not working smoothly. It uploaded but was caught in the loading/buffering for what seemed like an eternity.
I know you're probably thinking, "Why not just upload it to Youtube?" Well, there were some issues that we encountered last year that resulted in students having their videos/accounts removed or suspended, respectively. We were hoping to avoid that this year and our Ed Tech Specialist saw what she thought would be the solution at a conference over the summer. But alas, it seems as though Youtube is the way to go.
I will now recede in defeat.... Blogger... please fix this. It is such a headache for those of us with iPads.
Have you figured out a better way of doing this? How do you get your kids to upload videos to Blogger?
