Thing 10-Embedded Video and thoughts

WELCOME TO MY NEW LEARNING IN THING 10-ENJOY: A GREAT MOMENT IN SPEECH THERAPY...............



I wish fluency interventions would be this easy for my students who stutter. I happened upon this video in my browsing through YouTube. I have never heard about this video with John Wayne. I am sort of surprised that it was not mentioned in one of my courses either in undergrad or my Masters program. It was nice to see that the topic of stuttering was being addressed in short movie clips. For so long over history, stuttering was something that people just did not talk about openly. Various public figures have been more vocal about educating the public or been willing to share personal experiences about their dysfluent speech. This helps greatly with individuals who are becoming aware that they stutter. As a school clinician I have tried a variety of approaches to help my dysfluent speaking students. Maybe I will have to work on my John Wayne routine and give it a go......

I found that embedding videos into my posts was one of the easiest ways to share a video with others. KeepVid and PWNYouTube sites required repeated tries to convert a URL to a downloadable version. I was only able to download from KeepVid to my desktop, but then had trouble with the computer recognizing what format it was. I believe that ultimately my problems may stem for my outdated desktop hard drive configurations. I have been using Microsoft's web support to download updates for this class, but I think I may need to upgrade my computer sometime in 2010 to easily run all these new Web 2.0 tools I am learning. Zamzar seems like it may be a good alternative via my email. I am still waiting for delivery to my email. We will see.......

Have a great week, Gregory Jacoby