The Blog of The Video Math Tutor

Today I published my first series of podcast videos on this .Mac site. I decided to start with Basic Math, Lesson #6 since it deals with fractions. This is a subject MANY students find difficult to learn. Don’t worry, over time, I will add all my other free lessons here and even some “Sneak Peaks” of the “Premium” ($$$) Math Tutoring Lessons. At this time, I only have 1 Gigabyte of memory to “play” with, so I am limited to how much I can upload to this site. Over time, I will get 4 Gigs. This should be enough to make my podcasts available to all.

Yesterday, I purchased some software called VisualHub. It allows me to convert my Quicktime movies into Windows Media format. With this, I plan to make my premium videos not only available for sale through the mail, but you will soon be able to rent and purchase them online for immediate viewing. These videos will be for sale on AOL and on other web sites.

The other big news is that I am finally converting my CD-ROMs to DVD-Rs. this is a rather time consuming task, since I need to create iMovie versions of the videos I saved on miniDV tapes. I was able to improve the sound quality by reducing the background noise, but do keep in mind that at the time I made these videos, I was using a rather cheap microphone. Pops and buzzing noises crept into the videos now and then. I now have a better wireless mic, so this problem should be a thing of the past for the new Algebra videos I am making now. I am going to make iDVD versions that can be seen in both NTSC and PAL formats, so that people in most countries can watch these videos. The videos will be in widescreen format ONLY, and if you try to watch them on a standard (4:3) TV, you won’t see much, so you have been warned!