Posts Tagged "Video"

Play-DOH Moments…

Posted by MrsAngell on Oct 29, 2011 in Class | 0 comments

I recently was trying to work out ways I could help my Year 12 students to remember their rather complex diagrams in the lead up to their IB final exams.  After thinking about it for awhile I realised that they had the basics of the diagram it was just a matter of remembering the particulars.  So I decided to make playdoh.  The beautiful Kindy Teachers at school helped with the recipe:

2 cups plain flour
4 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 cup of fine salt
1/4 tsp powder paint
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cups boiling water

Mix dry ingredients.
Mix oil and water.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients.
Mix until dough.
Knead until soft.

What amazed me was the responses from the students.  Some of them had never played with Playdoh before in their lives.  The pure wonderment and awe meant that these students seemed to understand their diagrams so much better.

As with every lesson there is always someone who has to take it that one more step.  The result was an Angry Birds Circular Flow Diagram…  Check out the Birds take on the Pigs in an economy…

We can do Multiple Videos…. Can’t We?

Posted by MrsAngell on Oct 24, 2010 in Help Guides | 0 comments

A colleague of mine (@jmintouch33) commented that she had seen online a site which offered a list of videos which as you clicked on them they played in the ONE Video Player.  She went on to say how fantastic it would be if we could do that in our Sharepoint Environment.   Some of you may remember an earlier post where I lamented on being told “Anything I could do on the web I can do in Sharepoint“.  So again I started my search for the answer.  To cut a long story short I found the answer thanks to endusersharepoint.com it is a lot simpler than I thought it would be…

What you need to do is…

• Create a Document library.
• Save your Media Files to this directory.
• Add a content editor web part and add the following code to the Source Editor Section:

<SELECT  id=cancion onchange=document.all.music.filename=document.all.cancion.value;  size=1 name=Music> <br>
<OPTION  selected>Please Select the Video you Wish to View</OPTION><br>

<OPTION  value=”URL of Video”> Name </OPTION><br>
<OPTION  value=”URL of Video”> Name </OPTION><br>
<OPTION  value=”URL of Video”> Name </OPTION><br>
<OPTION  value=”URL of Video”> Name </OPTION><br>
<OPTION  value=”URL of Video”> Name </OPTION><br>
<OPTION  value=”URL of Video”> Name </OPTION><br>

</SELECT><br>
<BR> <br>
<OBJECT  id=music height=505 width=640  classid=clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95> <br>
<PARAM  NAME=”AutoStart” VALUE=”true”> <br>
</OBJECT>

• You will need to change the URL for each individual Video and add a Name
• You may need to change the height and width depending on the files you are showing.

And this is the Final Result.

I guess it’s true anything you can do on the web you can do in Sharepoint.