Week 6- Screen-casting
This week we learnt about screen casting-
this enables you to capture information on your computer screen and combine this material with audio to create a video. It would be a good idea to include a screencast to show how our app works for our group projects.

We used the website: www.screencast-o-matic.com and firstly, we watched a demo video.
For our individual lab exercise, we created some data/information in word or excel and started recording.

As a homework assignment, we were asked to add audio to our screencasts. Unfortunately, the sound and microphone is currently not working on my laptop and I will not be able to carryout this homework until i get my hands on another computer to use.
Watch this space!

Here is a screenshot from the screencast-omatic demo:

Although I did not get to create the screen cast for the elab, I got to assist with the making of a screencast video for our group project. I learned how screencasting works and when to use it. 

Week 6- Ted Talks-

This week I watched a few more Ted Talks in preparation for the class.

These talks were about crowd sourcing and youtube and copyright.

Margaret Gould Stewart talks about- How YouTube thinks about copyright- she is YouTubes head of user experience and talks about how the video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster a ideally creative eco-system where everybody wins. This talk reminded me of one I had previously watched and mentioned in my blog post from week 3/4 about laws that choke creativity and was given by Laurence Lessig.

The other Ted Talk was about crowd sourcing the news and was given by Paul Lewis. This talk was about how everyone can be a potential new source and about the future of investigative journalism.