Kenny Freundlich
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- Director, Instructional Technology
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- Last Modified: September 1, 2009 |
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If you'd like to know more about what I do at Wellesley, take a look
at the Wellesley College Instructional
Technology Home Page.
In Fall 2006, I launched a pilot of iTunes
U, a new method to make Wellesley events available to anyone on
the Internet with an interest in what's happening on campus. With iTunes
U, you can download, view, and listen to audio, still images, and video of
Wellesley events. With one click, you can subscribe to different channels
of Wellesley content that will be updated several times per semester. If
you own an Apple iPod, you can transfer the content to it for listening or
viewing on the go. You can event set your iPod to automatically transfer
new content as it becomes available. In January 2008, Apple began featuring
Wellesley's iTunes U content in the iTunes Store -- -- sometimes on the
iTunes U front page.
In the spring of 2006, Tamar Barzel and I co-taught Music 276 — From Cylinders to CDs to Cyberspace: American Popular Music and Technology.
I played a big role in creating Wellesley's official web server back in early 1994. (I'm no longer the webmaster, though.) I also attended the very first International Conference on the World Wide Web in Geneva in May, 1994.
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Click the speaker icon if you're curious to hear how "Freundlich" should be pronounced. This sound is in AIFF format. In 1994, it was amazing to hear sounds on the web. These days....not so much. |
QuickTime tests & HTML 5 tests
HTML 5 audio and video; HTML 5 Video fallback test
Most of my examples require QuickTime, so proceed to Kenny's
QuickTime tests page.
You can also try this QuickTime reference movie video which automatically displays
different size and bit rate video for
iPhone or for computer.
If you haven't already got QuickTime, grab it from Apple's QuickTime download page.
Testing Flash video, audio, H.264, and 'skins'
August 2009 - AudioClipPlayer
June 2009 - JW Player and .m4v files
December 2008 -- JW Player -- controller for Flash video with elapsed time, total time, and full screen button
November 2008 -- Audio player in Flash from
Martin Laine. It seems to load faster in Windows browsers with multiple audio
files than if I used QuickTime for multiple audio files. Unfortunately, the
player does not display total time - just elapsed time. There also isn't a
way to adjust the volume once the sound is playing. Moreover, Internet Explorer
users need to click the player twice to make it play.
September 2008 -- Video from DVD (H.264) with 'fullscreen' button (actually an unlabeled grey box)
HD H.264 video 1280x720 with same 'fullscreen' unlabeled button
Best (?) skin (not available from Dreamweaver CS 3, but only from Flash CS 3-- has Play, Stop, Seek, Fullscreen, Volume, but no elapsed time or total time.
If your video file is in .flv format, you can easily insert Flash Video using just Dreamweaver, and use one of 3 styles of pre-built skins for that come with Dreamweaver CS 3(Clear, Corona, and Halo), each of which has 3 flavors (#1=play, pause, stop; #2=play, pause, seek mute; #3=play, pause, stop seek, volume
Adequate skin -Halo style
Simplest video controller skin- play, pause, stop, mute
Testing a simple form
November 15, 1995 -- Kenny's ridiculously simple form.
Not very interesting, granted, but this was my first form, it was the mid-90's, and I needed to test it out.
Example of podcast
January 3, 2006 -- Kenny's first quasi-podcast - An extremely quick and dirty test of handcoding RSS and podcasting metadata.
iWeb '09 tests
February 10, 2009 - First test of iWeb Widgets (NYTimes headlines, Google Maps); changed default width and height