Jane Barrager

It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me.

Picture of Nicole.

My name is Nicole Damstetter, and I’m a mom, dog mom, Trekkie, wife, friend, and bibliophile (to name a few things). I’m a transplant to Orlando, Florida from Boston, Massachusetts, thanks to my husband and his family. My move down to Florida inspired my parents to retire nearby and now we’re trying to convince my brother and sister to leave the cold north winters for the year-round sunshine.

I currently work as a Director of Professional Services at Salesforce, leading a team of architects designing and implementing technology for our Public Sector customers. I’ve been with Salesforce for almost 6 years, first as an architect, and now as a leader. I am passionate about using technology for good, and love being able to support my team grow professionally and technically, and see the impact we’re creating directly with our customers.

When I’m not working or studying, I enjoy reading (currently mostly fiction), playing outside with my daughter and dogs, visiting the beach, and listening to Taylor Swift.

I enrolled in the Master of Information Science program in 2020 to continue my education, and dive deeper into learning about school and public library operations and programs. I’m looking forward to stretching myself creatively in this class and learning a few new tech programs.  

I’m not a dinosaur

Hi, everybody! My name is Victoria, I use ey/em/eir pronouns, and I currently live in Sarasota, Florida. I am in my final semester of the MSI program, and hope to be a public librarian once I graduate. Currently, I work in a smallish public library, where I help out with youth and teen services.

A person in an orange inflatable dinosaur suit waves with one hand in front of a cardboard arch with a painted sign that says “Jurassic Park.”

The dinosaur to the left is not me, but I did take the photograph and build the cardboard arch for one of our library programs!

I haven’t done much work with media production before, but I collect historical fonts and enjoy making silly memes to put up on the library’s teen bulletin board. I hope that this class will help me get a better sense of how to approach image and video editing. I am also fascinated by intellectual property law, despite having no background in it, so I am looking forward to talking more about copyright and licensing.

Media Lab 01: Blogging

A portrait of me

Hi everyone! My name is Adam Alhassan, originally from Lagos, Nigeria (the entertainment center of Africa), now living in Tallahassee, Florida. I got my Bachelors in IT from FSU and now about to get my Masters in IT (this is my last semester). I am a Quality Assurance Supervisor. I have several hobbies, but the one that takes the cake is playing video games, and I mostly play on the PlayStation 5 console. I was interested in this class because we would be working with digital media, which should be fun. I hope to learn more from this class to improve my media creating and editing skills.

Media Lab 01 – David Baker’s blog post

My name is David Baker and I’m from Orlando, FL. I graduated from FSU in 2004 with a bachelor of science in Business – Management Information Systems. I’ve worked in the information technology field for about 18 years and currently work at Citrix.

My favorite thing to do is ride motocross on the weekends. Occasionally, I’ll create some videos out at the track using a GoPro and upload them to my YouTube Channel.

Me riding at Pax Motocross track in Bunnell, Florida – December 13, 2022

Librarianship is Life!

Librarianship is everything individuals are aware of and what they are not yet aware of. I have been lucky to find and discover something new, about EVERYTHING, EVERY DAY thanks to the whole idea of librarianship (Information, connections, revelations, everything!)

Hanging out at Go Fish (British restaurant) in Rehoboth Beach, DE)

I am Harry Brake, from the City of Butler, Pennsylvania, have family connections to the Pittsburgh Steelers, now live in Delaware, and am studying the Master’s in Information Science with the ALA Certification. I work/manage the Woodbridge High School Library, previously worked at The American School Foundation in Mexico City and brought back my dogs from Mexico as you can them posing below:

Amaya, Kinah, and Wriggley in Mexico City!

I coach Cross Country, am the President of the Delaware Association of School Libraries, I love to blog at my blog site – I LOVE social media creation with students surrounding me with their ideas, love the outdoors, aquariums, and my work with The Nanticoke River Watershed Conservancy. I love finding ways to cross technology to promote environmentalism.

I love the fact that a wide range of social media and mediums are represented in this class and LOVE the potential of what others will bring to these mediums from their personal experiences.

HERstory

Synopsis: This is the story about my experience as a black woman in a male-dominated field and the ways I overcame this struggle and still deal with it now.

Content & Creation: All visual content for this project comes from Pexels.com. Please note that the use of any copyright material falls under the principles of Fair Use per category 1 (providing commentary/critique) and category 2 (illustration/example/education). This video was edited using iMovie. Title slides and credits were created using Canva to add the technical effects. The narration is self-recorded and all other audio elements are Creative Commons assets.

Video Credits:

Video by Pixabay from Pexels

Video by cottonbro from Pexels

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Video by Ricardo Esquivel from Pexels

Video by Taryn Elliott from Pexels

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Video by Kelly L from Pexels

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Video by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels

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Video by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA from Pexels

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Video by RODNAE Productions from Pexels

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Video by Kampus Production from Pexels

Video by PNW Production from Pexels

Audio Credits:

Track Name: “Blue Boi” Music By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired Original – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAukv… Official “LAKEY INSPIRED” YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmy… License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.

To France

Sound Citations:

DoorClosing by acclivity from Freesound CC BY-NC 3.0

Airport by morgantj from Freesound CC BY 3.0

Train Leaving Station byMotion_S from Freesound CC BY 3.0Dramatic by DaveJf from Freesound CC0 1.0

Image Citations:

2019-06-FL-212724 by ACME from Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0

Eurostar to Paris by Ashabot from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Luggage by Jose and Roxanne from Flickr CC BY 2.0

Trains in Northern Ecuador by Malcolm K from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Belgium – Eurostar – train shots by Ronnie23 from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

On the way by Hayley Lau from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Logjam by Andy Allan from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Luggage by Jose and Roxanne from Flickr CC BY 2.0

IMG_4777 by Andy Allan from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Train Door by Ekrulila from Pexels License

Eurostar! By Susan from Flickr  CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Through glass of train door by Whicdhemein One from Pexels Pexels License

 A Door of a Train by irem from Pexels Pexels License

French countryside by Andy Allan from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

countryside streak by Andy Allan from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Chicago, 2018 by Greg Wass  from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

old Bristol Airport by daves_archive_1 from Flickr CC BY 2.0

Delta rebooking desk  by Keenan Pepper from Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0.

Travel Desk by Richard, enjoy my life! from Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Boarding by  Andy Allan from Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Im Eurostar by smülli from Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0

Eiffel Tower Under Blue Sky and White Clouds by Jo Kassis from Pexels Pexels License

Brown Brick Palace Under Blue Sky and White Clouds at Daytime  by Ricardo Almagro from Pexels Pexels LicenseClear Glass Museum during Golden Hour by Pixabay from Pexels Pexels License

The Doll

Synopsis

A patron complains about an “eerie” doll in the library and demands it be thrown away. The librarian reluctantly complies but the doll has other plans in mind.

Process

I came up with this idea after mixing a few of my original thoughts together and decided to shoot everything myself. I had a friend record while I “acted” the scenes out. I obtained the sounds used in the clip through creative commons and used iMovie to compile and edit the video. An iPhone was used to film the entirety of the video and Microsoft PowerPoint was used to create the end credits scene.

Sound Credits

Programs Used

Film Credits

The Doll – An American Girl Doll “Felicity”

The Librarian – Joel Vasquez

Videographer – Alexa Sanders

A Boy More Than His Hat

https://youtu.be/kG0MENdO1c4

Synopsis: A boy who always wears his cowboy hat. Does he get through life because of his hat or because of his boyish charm? He will find out one way or another.

Content and Creation: All images are from my personal photo library are copyrighted to me. The narration is self-recorded and all other audio elements are Creative Commons assets found from Freesound. All visual and audio content was created or edited using iMovie.

Image Credits:

  • All photos by Matthew Stoklosa All Rights Reserved 

Audio Credits:

“Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe

Synopsis: In this mini performance of one of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems, a lonely child grows up to learn how to embrace loneliness (and being alone).

Content and Creation: All visuals were acquired from Pexels.com. Video was created on Canva.com. Vocal performance by Cynthia Moving. Audio mixing completed on Audiotronic – Audacity Rebuilt for Windows 10. Music is “Private Reflection” by Kevin MacLeod and can be found at https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4241-private-reflection

Audio Credits:

Private Reflection by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4241-private-reflection License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

All images and video fall under the Pexels License

Image Credits:

Image by Steve Johnson: Multicolored Abstract Painting · Free Stock Photo (pexels.com)

Image by: Video by Ave Calvar Martinez: Out of focus lights on rainy weather · Free Stock Photo (pexels.com)

Image by: Charles Parker Faceless kids in phantom costumes on Halloween night in town · Free Stock Photo (pexels.com)

Image by: cottonbro White and Yellow Plastic Toy · Free Stock Photo (pexels.com)

Video Credits:

Video by cottonbro: https://www.pexels.com/video/woman-reading-book-while-standing-6207888/ (Pexel License)

Video by Ave Calvar Martinez: Out of focus lights on rainy weather · Free Stock Photo (pexels.com)

Video by KoolShooters A Girl Making Different Faces · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by cottonbro A Girl Reading Book while Sitting on the Bed · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by cottonbro Person Putting a Candie on the Skeleton · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by RODNAE Productions Overhead Shot of a Child Coloring · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by Dmitry Varennikov Time Lapse Video Of Star Gazing On A Starry Night · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by CESAR A RAMIREZ V TRAPHITHO Cloud Formation Time Lapse · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by Pixabay Sunset · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by Felix Mittermeier Time Lapse Of Sunset · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)

Video by KoolShooters A Young Girl Meditating In A Yoga Position · Free Stock Video (pexels.com)