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Imaging/Multi-media

Imaging/multi-media: video and picture Web 2.0 applications Nydia Sostre-RuizAndrés Villagrá

 
 
 
Presented by Meg Joseph, Orla LoPiccolo, and Liz Osika
 
One effective way to reach your students is to incorporate multimedia into your instruction.  There are several ways you can accomplish this task.  During our presentation we will talk about three different levels of multimedia integration:
  • User - uses web 2.0 tools (YouTube, TeacherTube, Flickr, Picasa, etc.) to locate relevant media.  Then links or embeds the media into their course materials.  This level of user does not have an account with the tools, but access them only when content is needed.
  • Power User - creates an account with the various tools in order to use the advanced features of the program, such as creating play lists, favorites, joining discussion groups, or commenting on the media.
  • Creators - uses the tools to generate original media that they use in their courses.  They have accounts and most likely use many of the advanced features.
Videos 
 
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos, and view them in MPEG-4 format. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.   In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. (cited from Wikipedia)  The first video ever uploaded to YouTube was Me at the zoo, which is still available for viewing.
 
If you are going to use them in your classes, you have the choice of linking to the video or embedding it in the content.  Linking will take you out to YouTube to play the video.  Embedding will play the video from inside your content.  This limits the possibilty of inappropriate images appearing while you watch the video.  This will be demonstrated in class.
 
 
Other sources for educational videos can be found by a simple search in Google.  However, the Instructional Innovations blog from Indiana University, is a good place to start.  Some of the resources they list are below:
  • Academic Earth - video lectures from the best professors in the world
  • PBS Videos - some of the stories and videos from the PBS broadcasts
  • TeacherTube - for a more academic approach
 
  
Photos and Images 
 
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.[2] As of November 2008[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images (cited from Wikipedia)
 
Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.[1] "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures (personalized art).[1][2] In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering Picasa as a free download.  (Cited from Wikipedia)
 
Google Image Search is a search service created by Google which allows users to search the Web for image content. The feature was originally announced in December 2001. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. When searching for an image, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed. Then when clicking on a thumbnail, the image is displayed in a frame at the top of the page and the website on which that image was found is displayed in a frame below it, making it easier to see from where the image is coming. (cited from Wikipedia)
 
 
 
Creative Commons - The New Copyright
 
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. (Cited from WIkipedia)
 
 
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