Hi
Gar and All, Week 1
10.
ON USING VIDEOS
Hi
Vance,
I am enjoying the correspondence.
Thanks. The hypers to all the different chatrooms is
particularly insteresting for its prolixity. However what I am
particularly concerned with is the need or
lack
of it for the instant webcam. To me the audio visual classroom would only
occasionally have a need for instantaneous transmission of <other>
classroom scenes. What would seem to me to be most valuable
would
be the computer's ability and the internet ability to transfer
video
files effectively during, for example, an online discussion about
natural
history.
When I was an eight year old in the
nineteen fifties. (1954!) the thrill of
watching Laurens van der Post with the bushmen of the Kalahari
was
one of the greatest thrills of my childhood, especially having to
take
notes while it was being shown. That proved you had been listening
and
watching carefully to write it up well!
Today we have the possibility of film
online; I hope that we are more than a
mere warm up for costly film not from Sky satellites but
from
the internet phone line. To call a spade a shovel, what is the state of the art
of video download and transmission of
educational subject matter and open source?
Can anybody recommend to me the best
sites for an examination of such
technology, and software?
With
the greatest respect to the Webcammers and my own inadequate
machinery
(just acquired) that is what I would like to be able to do,
find
a repository of Video (Is it DVD?) so that I can take a sample for
my
students and say here is the file (send file) look at it and say now
<how
may we describe this scene or that animal or this dramatic event?
I
don't need to know what Maria is doing in her office in Río but I
would like to work on exchanged video
files! Who can help me with that Prof!?
Regards, Gar
:::::::::::::::::::::
Hi
Gar and All,
While I was looking for online videos
about Modernist buildings for my English for Architecture students, I found a
place with many videos about art(The Rolland Collection Series), and there, I
found what I was looking for. I got one of the videos on my web page by copying
and pasting a code, and I made a link to the page where the other video was
found. Then I created, for the latter, some pre-viewing and post-viewing
exercises with Hot Potatoes and Response-O-Matic which I also put on my page for
the students to complete. I did not have to spend any money on software and my
students were able to enjoy the videos as many times as they wished and at the
time they considered it convenient since the resource was just there on my page.
Maybe if you do a search on the Web
you might find the videos you are looking for.
my two cents
I
forgot to tell you that with Flash and Quick time you can also create pieces of
video for your students. I am not an expert at this, other webheads would
probably have more
knowledgeable things to tell you, but
you can find some information about using Quick Time at this url:
http://edtech3.cet.uiuc.edu/dmills/QT/TESOL/
Daf
:::::::::::::::::::::::
If
it's Quick Time you may be interested in, you will find lots more atClaire
Siskins's page
http://edvista.com/claire/qt/index.html
HTH, Teresa
::::::::::::::::::::::
http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html
"This collection contains movies
that the Prelinger Archives has digitized and
donated
to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life,
culture,
industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. They
are
available for viewing at no cost and with few restrictions."
Where I work we also make a lot of use
of video trailers (short ads for feature films)
and also sites where advertisers create the most outrageous videos and
try
them out on the public to check where they might have stepped 'over the
line'.
One of these is http://www.adcritic.com
(it's where I got my famous 'catherders'
video; I'm trying to think of the other one). As Dafne says,
search
google or your favorite search engine and you'll find loads of sources.
Vance
:::::::::::::::::::::::
I
don't know if this anwers Gareth's question, but we streamed some
excerpts from movies (just using
standard video capture software I think)
for our Language through Film course and posted them onBlackboard (commercial
courseware internet support site). The main issue
here
is clearly copyright: we were OK because it's a closed site for our
students, but you can't just go round
copying DVDs!
I saw a great new word the other week:
"dot.communism": the belief that
everything
on the internet should be free, or that someone else should
pay for it.
Cheers,
Nigel
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Hi
Nigel,
Thank you for that reply. It saves me
for taking the blame for raising it!!!
The notions you mention were at the back of my thoughts
when
I posted the mail but I hoped I was careful not to raise the issue
of
copyright here since we are looking at Communities of Practice rather
than
law. I did think of the educational aspect too and the generally
useful
approach the copyrighters take to education and charity. It's
ripping
and burning we would be talking about otherwise. That particular
area
of business is moving so fast and the laws are being revised and
lobbied
against so much and so frequently, that it is
surely not worth discussing in an informed group
such as this of highly intlligent people who can make up their own
minds
about what is legitimate or exploitative. [ I did see a header in
news
that 44 people were arrested in Spain for copyright offences only a
few
weeks ago but the byline author for that article was probably
fictitious.
I live in the Uk so it happened in Spain!Prove it didn't!]
Both European Parliament and US
Congress/ senate are vigorously discussing
and amending bills and acts which are obviously inadequate
and
insufficient as soon as they are made law.
I am grateful to correspondents and
Nigel for the educational software leads and their
knowledge that plenty of Free educational software is
to be found.
Gar
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Read Vance's comments on "copyrights".