Success! At last!
I tried for several days to upload this little video on Grammy’s Page. My son Joel Robinson recorded it Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, with his camera/phone. I was able to upload it on Facebook. A number of friends viewed it and posted positive comments. But I was unable to upload the video from Facebook to my word press blog.
Next I attempted to upload my 3-minute video to YouTube, again with Joel’s help. But I couldn’t find it. I guess it is lost somewhere, floating in cyberspace. (Actually Joel says it may not have been fully uploaded?)
Next at Dr. Spring’s suggestion, I tried Vimeo.com to upload my video. Success, at last!
In the video, I am holding my first grade picture. I’m smiling and you can’t tell about the recent traumas that had occurred in my life. See my earlier post: Literacy Narrative, the beginning for more details. I’ve also written an unpublished poem about my mother’s death and posted it on my About page.
I am also holding a Dick and Jane book reminiscent of the readers I learned to read from in first grade.
Evidently classrooms across the country used them. Although I started school in California, my friends who grew up in South Carolina also remember the Dick and Jane reader, as well as a friend who grew up in New York.
My analysis of my video: I needed to look more directly at the camera. I didn’t realize I looked elsewhere when I talked. Joel did not have a zoom button to do a close-up of the photo or of the pictures in the reader which I would have liked. Vimeo says the frame size is an odd size so that the audio and video do not always run in sync together. Don’t know what to do about that. At one point the video seems to shake–I guess Joel’s hands were not always steady.
This has certainly been an interesting assignment, and definitely a learning one for me!
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