Video
Easing Student Fears about Publicly Posted Material
Thursday, May 20th, 2010“If I post something publically on YouTube, what if my mistakes go viral and haunt me forever?”
Viral videos: the spread by-the-net short clips that usually involve something spectacular or someone doing something funny, foolish, or painful. Internet meme’s are born out of viral videos, and notable examples include “Star Wars Kid,” “Coke and Mentos,” “David [...]
Screen Toaster
Thursday, May 13th, 2010What is this, and What is it good for?!
ScreenToaster is a web based service that allows you to create and host screen casts online. What, you might be asking, is a screen cast?! What a wonderful question. A screen cast captures your desktop as a video, and allows you to capture additional audio as voice [...]
Viddler
Friday, April 9th, 2010What is this, and What is it good for?!
Viddler is a web based service that hosts video content online. That’s a nerdy way of saying: “this is a place where you can share videos on the internet.” What makes Viddler unique, and in many ways pretty cool, is the ability to use your webcam to [...]
Workflow
Monday, April 5th, 2010Workflow seems to be absent from nearly every conversation about group projects I’ve ever been a part of. Helping students understand how they should work in a group is important, and here’s a template for instructors planning on using Video creation as a group project.
Make a Plan Stan
Envision what you’d like your end project to [...]
YouTube is My Homework?
Monday, February 15th, 2010As I mentioned in the “YouTube is my Homework?!” presentation on 1/14/10, there are tremendous resources available on the net for video. These have great potential both in and out of the classroom, but the hard part becomes finding and distributing these pieces of media. Finding something relevant can be as easy [...]
