A YouTube alternative

Some of you have had difficulties uploadingto/embedding from YouTube; if so, you could try Vimeo as an alternative

Print text resources

I've gathered most of the archive posts on these at http://bauermags.blogspot.com/ - don't neglect these in your evaluations

No Tech Support after lunch today

John will be busy after lunch, so if you need equipment or assistance you must see him before lunch today

Quoting and providing sources

Whether you're directly quoting (using quote marks if within a sentence or indenting - blogger provides a quote tool to indent any highlighted text [also change the font if you do]) from anything you've read, you should provide a full reference (details of where it came from). As I'm blogging across 30+ blogs I don't always for the sake of speed, but you should!
The basic details you're looking to provide are:

1. author/s or editor/s
2. year of publication (or full dd/mm/yyyy if newspaper/web)
3. title of article (in "" or Italics)
4. for books, place of publication + publisher
5. page number/s
6. URL and date accessed online if web
7. for films, always give director's surname and year of release (in brackets) after the 1st mention of a title in any post (no need to repeat within a post, but do within a new post)

Use the guide below for more
Referencing & Bibliography
I might add further resources later

Adding audio to your blog

Basically, you need to create an MP3 file, upload this to a site which will give you an embed code- I suggest www.divshare.com - and then copy/paste in the embed code.

The two screenshots show you how this works; as with Scribd the upload is very simple; you now click on more options and  you'll see the box in the 2nd screen shot appear - now just copy the embed code.


I'll test this out with a random music track...[14th Feb: changed this; must have mistyped the email adrs on the account sign up]





As you may well be using a video camera to record your audio, an alternative to extracting the audio track and putting it through GarageBand/iTunes is to add some relevant stills to the imported track within Final Cut (preferrably - try to start using this!), upload it to YouTube and use the embed code it generates. You're also then using additional new media for your project.

How to convert your audio file to mp3

You can import your file into iTunes where you can convert it ... but you have to change some settings to do this.
Open iTunes
Click 'iTunes' on the top menu
Click 'Preferences' from the drop-down list
Look under the General tab for 'import settings'
By default, iTunes will convert files to the aac format ... no good ...
So change this to mp3 from the drop-down menu

Quicker still, import an audio file into iTunes, click ADVANCED and select CONVERT TO MP3

Staff training day on 1st Monday back

If you give me advance notice (ie this week) you can come in to edit on the Monday, so long as its an early start and you don't disturb me (I'll be working on research P1-3)

Tapes now for sale @ £2ea

To save you having to buy 5 for £15 (Tescos) I've bought a few which you buy off Jan at £2 each

Accessing John for equipment + technical help

First of all please ensure you use the correct door for the staffroom, and do not enter the main staffroom itself. If John is not there, do not ask staff where he is, and, crucially, be quiet!!! There have been complaints from other staff. Try to give John advance notice of any requirements; to this end it would be useful to use John's email: john.cockshaw@ilkleygs.ngfl.ac.uk

Alice in Wonderland teaser

Useful too for some points on Helena Bonham-Carter's early career as a Merchant Ivory bodice-wearing Brit, you can see the teaser for this in this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/06/helena-bonham-carter-interview