VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

Lappy

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VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« on: February 11, 2011, 10:55:16 AM »

Show us how much you and your baby LOVE learning with Little Reader!

Submit a video for a chance to win:

* US$200.00 for 1 grand prize winner
(credited to their PayPal Account)

* US$50.00 for 2 runners up
(credited to their PayPal Account)

* Special forum badges to all the winners

* and 2,000 BrillKids Loyalty Points will also be given away to everyone who joins!

Joining is EASY!

1. Take a video of your baby happily learning with Little Reader with you as the teacher.
*Videos should be no less than 30 seconds and maximum of 10 minutes showing your child learning with Little Reader. It's not a requirement for your child to be reading the words aloud, the video is only meant to capture the fun you have bonding with your child using Little Reader!

2. Click on the button below to submit your video and complete the entry form.

3. Entry deadline is on February 28, 2011. Winners will be announced on March 15, 2011.

4. Already joined the previous contest? NO PROBLEM!
All Little Reader users (both trial and licensed) are eligible to join this contest, even if you joined the previous one as long as the new video submission you make is different from the one you submitted before!

Want to join?

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTEST

We look forward to viewing your entries!

Cheers,
Lappy


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waterdreamer

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2011, 01:31:01 AM »

Is there an age limit. My son is 5 and we still use Little Reader?


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Lappy

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2011, 01:39:22 AM »

Hi Waterdreamer - there's no age limit

You can still send us a video through the same contest page.


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Ayesha Nicole

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 01:01:55 AM »

Hey there.

I want to record my girls reading Noorani lessons for learning to sight/orally read Qur'anic/Classical Arabic. However, I am having an issue with camstudio; the video records, but not the audio from the internal mic? maybe I need an external mic?

Do you have any tips and suggestions for how to record videos; and I have a very simple camera with video recording capability and have not really used it too much.

I remember reading that the recording of Naimah at 16 months old was a challenge, and am a little intimidated by it.

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/maddy's-baby-reading-40plus-words-at-16-months-with-little-reader/

http://mrswai.com/blog/?p=560#more-560

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.
Ayesha


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Lappy

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2011, 02:29:11 AM »

Hi Ayesha!

Hahaha, don't be daunted by the need to make a "perfect" video capture - most of the time it's always like that with kids (you know how sometimes they would do something totally amazing off-camera, and then refuse to do it again when you've got the camera ready and rolling.)

I think the best way to do it is to let your kids get used to having the camera around (that way it makes them feel more natural and they won't pay special attention to the camera being there.) You can also just prop it up and turn it on for a while - and then whatever you take you can edit later.

For a beginner when it comes to video capture, I would greatly suggest using the more common point-and-shoot digital cameras (all digital cameras these days have a video capture function which is easy as cake to use.)

Camstudio is not so much a video recording software as it is a Desktop screencapture utility (this is software used most often for tutorials where the video shows what is going on in your computer monitor rather than what is going on outside it) so I wouldn't recommend using it. In other words, it's a screen recorder, not a video recorder in general.

Hope that helps!


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Ayesha Nicole

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2011, 04:04:48 PM »

Hi there Lappy,

How are you? Hmmm - previously, I used camstudio on an older computer to capture the screen shots, and the girls' oral reading. Yet, on a newer laptop with windows 7, and an upgraded version of camstudio, the audio is not recording, and I am trying to figure out how to get it to work again; until I can figure out how to get a decent recording with my very simple camera with HD video recording - I think I need a tripod:

http://store.kodak.com/store/ekconsus/en_US/pd/M1033_Digital_Camera/productID.145087200

Thanks! I will just keep trying and see what happens!

- Ayesha


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Ayesha Nicole

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2011, 04:07:24 PM »

Hi Lappy. How are you?

I recorded two short videos of the girls reading/reciting from the mus-haaf (the Qur'an). I downloaded the videos from my phone to my laptop, and unsure how to upload it to the video section?

I don't know the URL?

Thanks.
Ayesha


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Lappy

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2011, 02:20:29 AM »

Hi Ayesha!

I sent you a PM. Please have a look at your inbox


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TeachingMyToddlers

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2011, 02:29:36 AM »

We are finishing up trying to minimally edit ours now and will be submitting it very shortly. I PRAY that my ISP doesn't flake out on me intermittently tonight, we are getting a new provider. But crossing my fingers all goes well trying to submit it!


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Lappy

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2011, 03:24:19 AM »

Haha!

I'm soooo looking forward to all the submissions! We had an upload spike last night and I got to work this morning with a bunch of videos in our server, so that's fantastic news!

Thanks to everyone who uploaded their videos!

And for those of you who haven't been able to - or are having problems with uploading, please just post here and I'll figure out a way to help you out.


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Jerrika

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Re: VIDEO CONTEST: You, Your Baby and Little Reader! (Part 2)

« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2011, 09:47:45 PM »

I tried uploading our video yesterday and the day before but on both occasion, the confirmation email I got said my "support ticket" had been received so I'm not sure if I did something wrong...

Thanks in advance