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Welcome to Video for Learning
Welcome to Video for Learning, for the foreseeable future I will be curating resources to further the study and research, practice and discussion of video for learning. Online video; its creation, use and re-use for all stages of learning, will be explored from both pedagogical and technical viewpoints. Where they provide extra value and contexts I will include older links and resources as well as new and breaking developments. I look forward to comments and feedback. I feel this superb painting by Wasfi Akab provides an appropriate and thought provoking icon for this collection. (CC licence BY NC ND)
#ukedchat added something new to their normal twitter chat hour this week. Teachers were invited, beforehand to create a short 3-5 minute video and upload it to YouTube or Vimeo, then share the links which would be tweeted out for the audience to watch, and comment, on in real time during the TeachTweet event. #ukedchat has curated the video's here on Scoop.it for further viewing and comment.
I think this is a very innovative and welcome approach to teachers for several reasons: - By moving the media format from text to video, it suggests new ways of connecting with an audience.
- The resources will not disappear into the ether because the half life of a video is significantly longer than that of a tweet.
- The video resources can be shared and embedded in other content and resources for CPD.
- This provides another way for teachers to share resources and ideas.
Hopefully these videos will attract lots of comments.
"Twitter has launched a new service. Called VINE it allows users to take 6 second video clips on their SMARTphones and Tablets and then share them via twitter (and facebook). Once taken, the 6 second clips loop, which is either intensely annoying or a great spur to make creative videos which enthrall people (depending on your points of view). My first VINE attempt is above, simply my daughter spinning round in a playground"
' The school has already served more than 200 years old and is still considered the main form of access to education. Today, the school and education are concepts widely discussed in academic, public policy, educational institutions, media and society spaces civil.Desde origin, the school has been characterized by structures and practices today mostly considered obsolete and outdated"
La Educación Prohibida (Forbidden education) is a project centered on a 2:25 hour film that explores in Education, its origins, theory and practice in detail. It is also a research project that uses social media with over 25000 followers. It combines interviews with academics, students, teachers and parents, with dramatic storylines and animated sequences
This is an open Copyleft film and the producers encourage you to download, remix and share this film. Some of the sequences are ideal for CPD or to further our current discourse on education and learning. I think the film has a great significance for us all.
The film is in Spanish with English, Portugese, French and Italian captions. The site is in Spanish - I viewed it using Googles auto-translate pug-in with Chrome
Looking forward to comments.
"The medium of video has been through a revolution in the past decade. How we create it, how we share it, how we access it, and how experiencing it affects our lives has transformed multiple levels of our society, as well as reshaped the values an..."
An excellent summary by Michelle Pacansky-Brock on the current affordances of video for learning in a real and personal context, using a simple and practical approach allied with some good teaching ideas.
The Internet Archive added TV News to its collection yesterday, (Tues.18th Sept). The Archive has captured captured all (US) news from 20 channels. This is the start of something big and and I hope they will be adding news broadcasts from other countries soon, it is also good to see BBC Worldwide included in the aggregated content.
There is a lot here and to make best use, you would probably need to have a question, topic or search strategy prepared. You can search by keyword, time, program and TV network. There is also a useful word cloud that show recent searches. According Brewster Khale, founder of the internet Archive, this is just the beginning. The copyright debate that is likely to ensue should also prove interesting.
"This is a blog post from Dr. Alec Couros @courosa outlining (with examples) 10 ideas for different classroom video projects. I like the ideas but as someone with almost no video creation skills or experience I can't comment on the level of video skills required...however I agree with the principle of students moving from being video consumers to video producers.
Thanks to @easegill (Nigel Robertson) from the WCEL unit at the University of Waikato for this link." I usually shy away from lists that list the the 10. 30 or 50 best ...... but this post goes beyond simple practiclaities and selects examples that encourage deeper thinking such as in "Genre Shifting Movie Trailers:" or reflections on change in "Conversation with Future Me/You:" Screencasting, remixing and social activism where Martha Payne and her blog Never Seconds get a mention. This is a video lesson planning resource that is relevant and timely.
Via Stephen Bright
The SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques...
These video illustrations of the technical papers provide an insight as to how computer animation can contribute to science, design and art. I am certain many of these techniques will be employed in future educational video resources. My favourites include: enhanced drawing 0:26, the 3D table modelling, fabric rendering 2:37; cinemagraphs 2:50 and 3D modelling 2:57. If you want to see more there is also a showreel trailer with more awesome examples.
Via João Greno Brogueira
The Public Domain Review showcases a growing collection of films, mainly from the Internet Archive. Categories include : Clips · Shorts · Silent Features · Talkie Features Animation · Comedy · Drama · Thriller/Noir · Horror · Fantasy/Adventure · Documentary · Ephemeral;which can be also be filterd by decade/period. Each film is supported by useful notes and comments. which will be helpful for further research.
I would suggest; if you are remixing video - this would be an excellent source from which to draw content. It also features a very early remix - Charles A. Ridley's - Nazi Style Lambeth Walk.
Yesterday YouTube added a new feature, that allows users to easily blur faces in the videos they upload.
"As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere report, “No video-sharing site or hardware manufacturer currently offers users the option to blur faces or protect identity.”
I think this will prove popular with, some, schools. Whist there may be rare cases when face blurring be appropriate in a school video, I suspect most of the time it will be used unecessarily. My own view is it sets children 'apart,' creates an atmosphere of mistrust or even makes them look like 'suspects' Please add your thoughts in the comments.
Having said that, I do think it is a good move on YouTube's part to offer this facility.
If you are a fan of the animated "hand drawn" videos that have been been made popular by the RSA then you may be interested in VideoScribe HD.
By selecting elements such as icons arrows and backgrounds from the libraries provded, it is a relatively straightforward process to storyboard these videos, after which the Videoscribe app automatically creates a video sequence 'drawn' by an animated hand.
I think there is a lot of potential for educators and students to come up with some innovative and creative results. The only downside might be if they become too ubiquitous and people become indiffrent to the format
Get VideoScribe HD on the Apple App Store; £2.99. There is also a free online browser based version together with a paid-for Pro Desktop version available on the Sparkol Web page.
Before it became known as the idiot box, television was seen as the best hope for bringing enlightenment to the American people... ... In light of the current buzz surrounding flipped classrooms, MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and video lecture-capture; this piece on Matt Novak's excellent Paleofuture blog at Smithsonian.com, serves to remind us that educational TV/broadcasting; (now online video), is nothing new and perhaps offers us a clearer historical and academic context for evaluating the current use of video and broadcast technologies for learning.
The drawings used to illustrate the article are superb, and worthy of inclusion in any serious presentation about online learning!
"Last year to celebrate our birthday, we wrote you, the YouTube Community, a thank you note for making our first 6 years so special. And on that birthday you gave us a great present by reaching a record rate of 48 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute. Well Community, this year, on our 7th birthday, you’ve outdone yourselves once again. Today 72 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute. Like many 7 year olds around the world, we’re growing up so fast! In other words, every single minute you now upload three whole days worth of video instead of two"
Just reflecting on what the next seven years will look like? Also on how much poorer learning on the web would be without YouTube.
Via Luke McKernan
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VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document.
Via Ann S. Michaelsen
Henshaws College has launched an accessible version of YouTube, which was funded by Jisc through Jisc Advance. It allows people with learning difficulties and disabilities to use this mainstream technology independently.
Access YouTube is a superb development from Mike Thrussell at Henshaws College which deserves as much recognition as it can get, let's hope this link will be shared as widely as possible, I will most definately continue to follow this innovative and valuable project.
" the lecture or talk is a waste of time if it's not recorded and put up on YouTube, as many more people will watch online than offline."
"Unlike education, the web has a habit of producing pedagogic models that have massive user adoption. Short, instructive video is one such Massive Open Online Pedagogy (MOOP). YouTube showed that short, video clips have a serious contribution to play in learning. YouTube EDU put lectures online but if anything this was the old world porting its old bad practices into the new world. A bad one hour lecture isn't made better by putting it on YouTube and believe me, YouTube EDU is jammed with bad lectures"
Udacity, one of the world's leading online education portals, yesterday announced a partnership with translation platform Amara to caption and translate more than 5,000 educational videos using student volunteers.
This epic undertaking is significant for a several reasons, it offers a democratisation of video content by making it globally accessible and relevant, and it offers real world experience to students. Teachers might wish to consider this type of task for their own students, it is much more meaningful than making endless ppts, and helps develop real media skills within a digital literacy context.
In this concise and well written post Jim Buchan, recognises that video is a fundamental text for learning that goes way beyond passive watching of a video clip. He states it offers opportunities to develop digital skills including search, authoring and provide pupils with meaningful learning experiences.
Rightly Jim argues, "access to video should be a core requirement of Glow Futures" in the development of Scotlands National Intranet for Schools #GlowPlus
James Cross explores some practical classroom techniques and ideas for how schools and teachers might bring online video learning to life in their classrooms.
This article in SecEd provides a good introduction for teachers who may be considering using online video in their teaching, but are not sure where to start. James outlines some useful approaches, strategies and clearly explains the benefits of online video.
If you use YouTube playlists, to organise and manage videos, you may wish to try out a new feature which will enable you to add intros and outros to the videos in the playlist to " weave individual videos together into a bigger story"
You can create these either as recorded 'to camera' pieces using your built in webcam or as text intros, there are a number of different styles and background effects to choose from. There is also an option to add background music.
The tool can be found in your Playlist settings in the Video Manager, click: Edit Playlist to use.
If students are creating playlist this facility might help them to think crtically about the content and sequences in a playlist.
Presentation given at the Diverse Conference in Leuven. July 2012.
Historically, watching, moving images in school has been a whole class activity. Despite major developments in both the delivery platforms and video technology, much educational use of video is still predicated on whole class viewing, where the primary purpose of the video content is to illustrate or exemplify subject content.
However video is capable of much more; as I have argued in this presentation which is centred on a MindMap which provides the framework for the presentation. It visualises and connects the different elements that are at play in video for learning. This is still a developing project and with a lot more work to do, but if you wish to know more, please get in touch or comment below. I would be delighted to hear from you.
"Crack journalism is coming to the land of cat and Justin Bieber videos: YouTube is helping to launch a new channel with the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIR)"
With each day that passes YouTube is becoming increasingly important as an platform for news gathering and dissemination, ranging from user generated as it happens footage, to uploaded news broadcasts from providers such as Al Jazeera IFiles offers an alternative to TV broadcast news.
Now a new channel The IFiles TV will curate video from sources including the BBC; Al Jazeera and The New York Times amongst others - I think this may be one to watch.
As you can see from the image above, this is primarily a listing of hyperlinks to videos related to Education Psychology. But it is a long and clearly detailed and dated list of contents, curated into headings including: Scientific Method, Philospophy; Science & Culture, Dynamic Systems and Cybernetics. Educational Reform.
The videos are aggregated from a wide range of sources including specialist sites and TED. If you are interested or researching this field then you may find some very useful resources.
The rule of thumb used to be that web content shouldn't be longer than five minutes an episode -- a rule that's pretty much dead here in 2012, with the spread of longer runtimes into least-suspected places, such as YouTube. ...
This is interesting because a great deal of recent research suggested that educators and students prefer short clips for learning purposes.
- Or do we need a rethink on how we offer video in our learning resources? Have the high quality HD properties of contemporary online video changed how we can use video for learning.
Your thoughts on this would be very welcome in the comments.
"DIVERSE is the leading conference regarding all aspects of video and videoconferencing in education: teaching, research, management, etc. This includes the convergence of these technologies; the emergence of new possibilities such as "presence production" for learning, interactive television, virtual reality and computer games techniques, and handheld access to moving image"
If you are interested in Video for Learning then diverse2012 Leuven, 3-6 July is the conference to attend with a range of sessions covering many different facets of video and dynamic multimedia.
"Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. Users of Open Images also have the opportunity to add their own material to the platform and thus expand the collection. Open Images also provides an API, making it easy to develop mashups
Open Images has over 1500 Creative Commons licensed videos avaialble for download most are historic but the portal offers an upload option for those who wish to contribute to the archive. You can search the video by date of publishing or upload and CC licence. Lots of value here for educational projects and Research
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