Tag Archives: video
Interactive Video
When instructors are redesigning their courses to engage students in active learning, passively watching video clips isn’t a great pedagogy. Interactive video technique could be adopted to blend interaction and linear video. YouTube has Video Annotations feature for instructors to add interactive commentary to their own videos. It allows instructors to “add background information about the [...]
Creating Mobile-Ready Videos
As bandwidth and computer technologies improve for the general consumer, it is becoming more and more apparent that online options for support, training, and course work will continue to increase in demand. In the past, online course materials have, out of the necessity of bandwidth limitations, been offered in general print-ready formats as well as [...]
Adding Captions/Subtitles to Your Video and Audio in PowerPoint
Tips for Using the Subtitling Text Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Microsoft recently made STAMP (Subtitling Text Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010) available as a free public beta. STAMP makes it possible to add closed captions to video and audio files in your PowerPoint 2010 presentations. You can create captions yourself within PowerPoint, or import [...]
Morning Musings: iTunesU hits 300 million downloads
Launched in 2007, iTunesU has quickly become a leading tool for participating institutions to upload, manage, and share custom course content online. Over 800 Universities around the world have joined Apple to create one of the world’s most popular, and prolific online educational catalogs. In just three years, iTunesU has surpassed the 300 million download mark from [...]
Morning Musings: Copyright Office announces huge DMCA changes
Educators and amateur filmmakers everywhere rejoice! The US Copyright Office released a statement yesterday from the Librarian of Congress listing six (6) new exemptions of fair use to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) allowing more flexibility for consumers/educators/everyone to legally rip DVDs, and “jailbreak” phones. This is a big deal, allowing more flexibility for almost everyone. [...]
The Case for Mindgate Media
As an instructor, you may have experienced the need to reinforce concepts with video resources in class. You may have produced your own instructional videos, or you may have spent many hours finding relevant video resources online that will reinforce concepts for your students. With the slogan ” Rich media for higher learning, recommended for [...]
Instructional Technology Grants Showcase: Mr. Five
Mr. Five (Mathematical Reform From Interactive Video Experiences) is an online hyper-media learning environment that integrates video clips. The application is able to store and play videos upon request. The videos can be referenced by the topics of teacher, theme, and keywords. Questions and reference information pertaining to the videos are also stored in the [...]
Morning Musings: Five Years and Counting for YouTube
Happy 5th birthday YouTube!! At one billion videos served per day, making it the number one video website, YouTube has quickly become ingrained to our everday internet life. After a rocky start and unclear future of copyright and intellectual property concerns, YouTube has easily become the leader of internet video hosting and innovator of high [...]
Onsight : Mobile Video Collaboration System
Recently I met with a faculty member in Aviation Technology who was looking to integrate a device in his classes that would allow remote collaboration for aircraft construction and maintenance. This device is Liberstream’s Onsight mobile video collaboration device.