One Day on Earth is a crowdsourced project to globally record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the second annual global day of media creation called ONE DAY ON EARTH.
All the videos from the 2010 project are here on this interactive map.
The next date is 11th November , 11.11.11, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and other inspired citizens will be fiming again. Sign up to particpate.
I think this resource will be invaluable to anyone teaching or interested in Geography, Culture, Antropology. Citizenship, RE ....
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Video for Learning
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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) 
"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 
eclap is the European Libray of Collected Artistic Performances covering "stage, performing arts, cinema, film, dance, ballet, festival, music, opera, rock, theatre, theater, musical, audio, video, educational, entertainment, culture, heritage, cross media" bringing together a huge quantitiy of previously inaccesible performing arts resources
"Hosted through Europeana ECLAP is creating a best practice network, making use of advanced database and delivery tools for the production and dissemination of the rich multilingual European heritage." Many of the performances are captured as video - hence the inclusion in this resource - and indeed many of these videos - as well as other media - can be downloaded. Juts to give a flavour here are some examples of song, dance and documentary. 
"Poetically modest, sometimes audacious and violent, animated images can sometimes help us to grasp the unfathomable dimensions of creation"
"As part of the MA ‘methodologies’ lecture series at National centre for Ceramics, Wales, Leah McLaughlin presented a lecture on ‘Video as a Research Tool’. As part of this presentation she set the MA students the task of completing a film themselves to enable them to experience first hand the ease with which film can be used to document aspects of their practice" Some of the results can be seen on Leah's web page and I think this approach offers opportunities for all stages of education and all subjects Thanks to @edmediashare - good to see them on scoop.it Via @edmediashare 
"Cinemagraphs are still images that contain within themselves living elements allowing a glimpse of time to be experienced and preserved. Cinemagraph is a technique of blending the effects of images and videos. It was introduced by a New York fashion photographer Jamie Beck, in collaboration with motion graphics designer Kevin Burg" A far cry from the crude animated gifs common on the web in the 90's and early 21stC web, these examples examples demonstrate the scope and potential of this new medium I think what might be interesting for educators is the power to focus on, and highlight some hidden detail, a nuance that might be missed in a video or still image. For example, what details would a geographer, a mathematician, or a linguist choose to emphasise? This article also provides a useful guide on the technical aspects of making cinemagraphs. If you want to explore creating animated gifs on a mobile platform then there are some apps available including Giffer. Some more examples here. 
"You may have been wondering what Smarthistory has been up to since we joined Khan Academy in October. We’ve had to keep this hush-hush…but we can now announce that we have contributed more than 100 videos to the unbelievably great, second iteration of the Google Art Project" The recent announcement of an extensive Version 2 of the Google Art Project, covering 151 museums and thousands of works has been followed by the news that SmartHistory.org have been collaborating with Google on building education resources to extend and support the project. I think this is a good example of how content can be part of an ecosystem for learning. I am sure it will encourage similar initiatives elsewhere. 
Silent Film Director app for iPhone and iPod Touch lets you post process your video and create Silent and Vintage films with customizable sound, video speed, title cards, transitions, etc. I discovered Silent Film Director when Simon Widdowson , a teacher at Porchester Junior School Tweeted that the school had entered the International Retro Film competition. You can watch their entry here in the Gallery. Think there is lots of scope for educational fun here. 
TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.
As a precursor the associated YouTube channel is now live and offers a flavour of the quality of the content to follow. 
WatchKnow.org, which I scooped earlier, has now rebranded as WatchknowLearn.org. It has redesigned its look and the menus have been simplified. All the important features and tools, whci make it such a useful platform, such as the age filter are still there. Now includes more references to the US K12 curriculum "Tens of thousands of excellent, educational videos in a huge, intuitive directory. Organized, reviewed, rated, and described by teachers." 
The viducate network - an initiative to promote video education across all educational sectors in Europe Our vision is: "Viducate is concerned with the development of active citizenship in intercultural contexts at all levels of formal and informal education. Video and multimedia form the core of this non-prescriptive pedagogy of production in the information society." Excellent to see another example of cross cultural collaboration in this important field. Viducate offers reports, newsletters conferences, workshops and hosts a community of practice. About us With this video channel GO! wants to stimulate reflection on education in the 21st century. Our aim is to share thought provoking video footage on education on a regular basis. Our target... GO! is a Tumblr based video platform for all involved in education to comment, discuss and submit videos. 
Just before Christmas Google announced the YouTube for Schools platform, which runs through a schools Google Apps for Edu account, allowing students to access... Via Anthony Heald 
A Gateway to film heritage in Europe.Discover, experience, locate, use and share films, photos, posters, reviews, letters and other materials from European film archives and cinémathèques.,... ... Excellent complementary site to EUscreen includes documents, slides and posters as well as archive films. A treasure trove of European moving image history, should prove of great value to many educators including History, Language. Media and Art teachers. |
"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. 
"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 From Google's official announcement: "Today we're excited to launch Hangouts On Air to Google+ users worldwide.
With just a few clicks, you’ll be able to: Broadcast publicly. By checking "Enable Hangouts On Air," you can broadcast your live hangout—from the Google+ stream, to your YouTube channel or your website—to the entire world.
See how many viewers you’ve got. During your broadcast, you can look inside the hangout to see how many people are watching live.
Record and re-share. Once you're off the air, we’ll upload a public recording to your YouTube channel, and to your original Google+ post. This way it's easy to share and discuss your broadcast after it's over.
Of course, launching millions of live stations takes some doing, so we're rolling out Hangouts On Air gradually, over the next few weeks." Some very good news, that many of us in education been waiting on for quite a while. Having facility to combine video conferencing with broadcasting and publishing will really extend what is possible in collaborative learning spaces for schools, colleges and educational projects around the world. Official announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your.html
Find out more: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair. Via Robin Good 
The old model of learning had students passively sitting in lectures.
Academia barely noticed the industrial revolution, but a group of independent, like-minded pioneers, including Sebastian Thrun and Eric Mazur, are plunging it into the information revolution. By taking the lecture out of the hall and replacing it with online, interactive content studied at home, teaching time is spent on just that -- teaching, not declaiming. And once the university is flipped, it's open to the entire world. Via @edmediashare 
After the launch of their YouTube channel TED Ed have now announced the TED Ed video platform - with the strapline "Lessons Worth Sharing" As you would expect, the platform is built around content from TED Ed partners and YouTube Edu Partners. Content is organised by subject and context and teachers can build various learning activities, and questions around this content. More importantly the platforms potential reaches out beyond the featured content, orgamised into subjects and themes to any content in YouTube - and that is its strength. As Chris Anderson of TED states in his post: "the goal is to allow any teacher to take a video of their choice (yes, any video on YouTube, not just ours) and make it the heart of a lesson" Teachers can register to join the platform and create their own video based learning resources. I think this is an important development in video for learning and the important thing is that it is open to all around the world. 
"It's hard to talk about software in 2012 without mentioning "the cloud". You've seen the ads from sofware vendors asking what your cloud strategy is? With all this hype, it's worth taking a look at the state of cloud video editing and the promise it could hold for Professional Video Editors." Although aimed at professional video makers, this article is also very timely and useful for educators, as it gives a clear picture of the development and current status of online video editing tools and suggests when they may be most useful.
Thanks to Nicholas Weil.
Via Nicolas Weil 
BBC Click team demonstrate how to use a smartphone to make a movie complete with dramatic special effects. ... This video demonstrates how various apps and accessories, (inc. prices), and offers some advice on filming techniques that can help you make (better quality), movies on a smartphone (mainly iPhone). 
Journal of European Television History and Culture is to be the first peer-reviewed, multi-media and open access e-journal in the field of television studies... A great initiave from EuScreen This excellent journal will be of interest to ecducators who are interested in the history of moving image and broadcast television. Each article is available as a PDF download. 
"Today Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Institute launch the Why Open Education Matters Video Competition. The competition will award cash prizes, provided by the Open Society Institute, of up to $25,000 for the best short videos that explain the use and promise of free, high-quality open educational resources and describe the benefits and opportunities these materials create for teachers, students and schools." A wonderful creative opportunity for educators and students to make videos that promote the use of high quality open educational resources. I am sure this initiative will create some wonderful reusable video resources and spread the word on the value of open educational resources. I can't think of any good reason not to enter, nor can I wait to view the submissions. More info here. in 1965, the last great world's fair in the U.S. was demolished, never to be seen again. Or was it? This documentary project will gather archive footage and other resources to create a video documentary of the NY64-65 Worlds Fair. This might serve as a good model for a other educational video projects - using archive footage The Interent Archive might be a good place to look for footage. This project is seeking funding from Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding platform for creative projects. 
Do you want to get the most out of YouTube? If so, we’ve got just the guide for you, then – “Using YouTube : From Consumption To Production“, the latest free manual from MakeUseOf. By author Matt Smith, this guide goes over everything you need to know about YouTube, whether you’re an enthusiast or a budding director.
"There are really two sides to the YouTube coin – consumption and production. YouTube is unique from most other forms of media because it allows people using the service to both view content and create it. Becoming a content creator doesn’t require any special permission. All you need is an account and a video file to upload"
The booklet is available free download - but you have to like MakeUseOf on FB or subscribe to their Newsletter. A very reasonable price to pay
Via Jim Lerman 
Yesterday I posted about my concerns over YouTube suddenly added adverts to the school channel and, as I later discovered, also appearing before and over... ... This is a very interesting perspective of using YouTube in schools from a teachers point of view. It raises many issues that educators should be aware of and discuss. So thanks to Simon for the post and starting the debate. 
Digital and new media for museums is the Vimeo exposure channel of Infofilm / Museummedia in The Netherlands. Good to see the Netherlands Museums sharing their ideas and content through a dedicated video channel on Vimeo. Lets hope other museums may follow suit. |
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