Tracking Jamaica: Penn Relays 2010 | Stacy Jones

Since 1895, the University of Pennsylvania has been holding one of the country's best attended track meets at its historic Franklin Field. In the 1990s, they added a USA vs. The World series to boost attendance and create a stage for some of the sport's biggest athletes to showcase their talent early in the season. In 2010, Jamaican Olympic golf medalist Usain Bolt announced that he would compete in the USA vs. The World: Men's 4x100 meter relay. The announcement sent ripples through the track community and caused ticket sales to soar. Bolt's relay team blew away the competition, including a very sour Shawn Crawford. In 2010, the team to beat was Jamaica, and the team hoping to beat them was the US.

Watch the video.

Waking Up from the American Dream-Gena Chung

There are some estimates that put the number of illegal immigrants in Montgomery County as high as 250,000. Despite those reports, it is the only county in Maryland that opposes the 287(g) program that would give local police the power to enforce federal immigration laws. Maryland Delegate Susan Lee (D-16) spoke to me about why she opposes the program, and I take an in-depth look into the lives of two illegal immigrants who live in Montgomery County.

A glimpse into the life of Jim Turri

Jim Turri has been blind since birth, but that hasn't stopped him from working, buying a house or building his own family. About 70 percent of blind individuals in America are unemployed, according to the National Federation for the Blind. Jim and his wife Holly are not part of that statistic. Jim works for the University of Maryland while Holly works for Comcast. Both met at a conference for the blind and believe in instilling values of work, education and Christianity in the lives of their children. Their eldest son, Micheal, is sighted, married and he and his wife just had their first child. Tracy, who still lives with her parents, was born blind and is currently taking online classes to become a teacher. This is an average day in the life of the Turris. -- (UMD Video/Tami Le)

Final Project - The Anacostia River Bag Tax: A Help or Hinderance?

The D.C. City Council approved a five cent bag tax in June 2009. The tax, which has generated about $150,000 since it took effect January 1, is designed to clean up the Anacostia River. So, how is it working? Experts and residents splinter in their opinions. (Jessica Harper/UMD Video)

Final Project - Going Green in Forest Hills

The Northwest Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Forest Hills is hosting a pilot project run by the city's office of planning to determine simple ways that people can "go green" at home. Forest Hills residents Ken Terzian, a local architect, and Alan Cohen, who runs a pest extermination and lawn care business without using any toxins or chemicals, discuss some of the ways that they have made their homes and the environment greener and more earth-friendly. (Laura L. Thornton/UMD video)

How To Post Soundslides Projects to Blog (optional)

As I mentioned, you don't have to post your Soundslide project to the blog -- you can bring it to class and turn it in on a Flash drive. But if you have time and want to try posting it, there are two ways:

1. The first step will be to export from Soundslides (once you're finished), and that will generate a whole folder full of files. Next, upload the Publish_to_Web folder full of files to your Web space.

For Web space, you can use the file hosting service that Maryland provides, ... it's File Manager under TerpConnect
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/myweb

Then post the link to your slideshow to the blog.

The OIT help desk should be able to walk you through any problems that come up with that (http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/documents/4/4781/)

2. Some of you have found that Soundslides lets you convert your project so you can upload it to Blogger or YouTube without having to put it on TerpConnect. Here's how:

First, go to this link:
http://support.soundslides.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=132

Then, after the project is already exported, create a zip file out of the "publish_to_web" folder by using the steps listed based on the type of computer you are using.

Then, click "online video converter." (a link in the first sentence).

Type in your email address and click "continue."

Then, select your file and upload it. It will be converted into an MP4 file and emailed to you.

Go to the link, save it and upload it to the blog.

These steps are all outlined on the Web page.

Issues with Method 2:

Some students in past semesters have reported that the captions are dropping out of Soundslides when the projects are converted to mp4 video files. After doing some digging, I've learned that this is a bug of converting Soundslides to video formats:
(see: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/using-soundslides/publishing/)

So the best way is to use the first method of uploading that I described and upload the folder of files to the TerpConnect Web space -- that will keep the captions in place.

-Jeff

Slides from Today's Class -- Video Week 5

Mm Spring Week12

Clips from final project - Yergin

These clearly won't run together like this in the final version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I89ibo866js

Final Project Photos- Gena Chung

Photos for final project on illegal immigration in Montgomery County, MD.

Also posted audio in iTunes dropbox under Final Project intro- GChung.

Final Project Clip - Michelle Nealy

U Street Revitalization Brings New Businesses to the Corridor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdBtKiwtWVE

Note: I'm going to lose the still photos and replace them with cutaway video.

Jessica - Final Project Clips

Anacostia River Bag Tax: A Help or Hinderance?

Final Project Sample-- Alix Farr

Some of the photos for my final project are here.

Blind Family - Tami

a clip of my final project is available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9APr_f2aA

Selection of final project photos

I've uploaded some of the photos I'm planning to use for my audio slideshow here.

Cheers, Karen

Homework Assignment: Piece of Final Project

Hello all,

I posted a piece of my final project to the iTunes Dropbox. It can be found in the "Drop Box" tab under "final_piece".

Tina