Category Archives: New Media

New Media Faculty Academy

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Andy Rush

This is just a quick post that will be used as an introduction to my New Media Buffet presentation. Actually this is old, new media, but the Video Toaster/Webcam Max/Ustream.tv was put into service once again this year to stream … Continue reading →

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Small Pieces Constantly Changing

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Andy Rush

An interesting thing happened on the way to, and from, our presentation on “Small Pieces To-Go” at the ACCS 2009 conference. Change. Alright, change isn’t a big deal in our world, but it’s one that I found very exciting and … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous YouTube

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Andy Rush

Sarcasm notwithstanding, the sentiment in the above video is held by many people – “YouTube is a site of millions of sucky videos.” I have, in the past, argued against that statement here, here, here, and here. Until recently, a … Continue reading →

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Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline – v2.0

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Andy Rush

A little over a year ago I posted Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline using various tools to allow the embedding of YouTube videos in PowerPoint presentations. In the mean time, YouTube has added a bazillion more videos, and some … Continue reading →

Posted in New Media, PowerPoint, Screencasts, umwnewmedia, YouTube | 7 Comments

Now that YouTube is going HD, I need more room!

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Andy Rush

What? You haven’t heard that YouTube has HD video? Well, then this post will serve two purposes. First, the news is not officially out of the bag yet, but you can watch videos on YouTube in a true HD format! … Continue reading →

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Is that Gaussian Blur-ray?

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Andy Rush

New media humor for the day. If only it were Blu-ray, it would be a good deal.

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More Bad Video Editor Behavior

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Andy Rush

In my previous post I referred to the latest Windows Movie Maker program for Windows Vista has issues with frame accuracy. Well, here I present to you a very graphic demonstration (a screencast) of that lack of accuracy. What you … Continue reading →

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Live UMW Athletics

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Andy Rush

The University of Mary Washington has always taken great pride in its athletics program, and includes some highly ranked teams. However, it was also good to see, as fellow UMW staff member Seth Casana pointed out to me, that the … Continue reading →

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I need some AIR

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Andy Rush

I thought about several ways to begin this post, and I was hoping the title wouldn’t scare people off thinking that I was going to vent. No, it’s not that kind of air. It’s actually Adobe’s AIR, or Adobe Integrated … Continue reading →

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How’s that workflow thing going?

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Andy Rush

A project I just finished almost requires me to blog about a few of the workflow issues. Even if no one reads this it will go down in the archives as a “reference post”, so here goes. A faculty member … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio & Video, Education, New Media, YouTube | 4 Comments