I learned that Chris Brogan, social marketing expert and co-author of the book Trust Agents, also writes a parenting blog called Dad-O-Matic. This blog shares parenting news, views, experiences and advice from the dad’s perspective. Given his background, he also writes a lot about media literacy.
While in this Family Media Projects YouTube piece, Chris offers collaborative ideas for commemorating the holidays, these are great ideas to document any family celebration.
Chris suggests bringing a camcorder or digital recorder to family gatherings and interviewing older family members about things they remember from their childhoods and things they remember their parents telling them about their parents’ childhoods. It’s great to capture these memories on film to show the grandchildren and future generations.
He also suggests passing the video camera around the room having each person say what they are going to remember most about the past year and to store their responses in a video file. He brings up a good point: “You never know what’s going to happen in the next year, and it would be great to have video of the people that you love and care for talking about the things that matter to them.”
Have fun documenting your own family memories.
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This video offers some great suggestions that will make family videos so much more memorable. What would you suggest for those who have too much video?
Good question. Read Stewart Wolpin’s guide for the Best Backup Solutions, which includes suggestions for storing video, photos and other important files. He recommends three quick, cheap and easy methods for storing and backing up digital video and photos: an online storage service, an external hard drive, or recordable DVD or Blu-ray discs.
Link: http://www.techlicious.com/guide/best-file-backup-solutions/
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