Web 2.0 toolsfor your teaching and learning programme
YouTube
Peer evaluation
Visual story telling
Grass roots video
Acceptance of high and low presentations
Information is more important than the polish
http://www.youtube.com/
YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.
• YouTube is currently not profitable
• its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day.
• created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees
• uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of material
YouTube
• it is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000, and that around ten hours of video are uploaded every minute
• more than 100 million videos were being watched every day, and 2.5 billion videos were watched in June 2006. 50,000 videos were being added per day in May 2006, and this increased to 65,000 by July. In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views
• YouTube is hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 45 terabytes of storage space), and has about 500,000 user accounts
Q-tube: broadcast yourself
Social networking
Collaboration
Grassroots video
Acceptance of high and low presentations
Information is more important than the polish
http://www.qtube.ca/
Q-tube: broadcast yourself
• Canadian: Scott Lawson
• Launched last year
• Values matter more than ever now, in the way we interact in an online learning environment
• In terms of classroom application, these values are essential in monitoring and maintaining a supportive and safe environment for student use.
• “The whisper of control kills communication”
Alternatives
http://www.vimeo.com/
• New York based, founded in 2004• 6,068+ videos uploaded daily.• 96,930+ videos uploaded in total• introduction of High-Definition ("HD"), making it the first site to enable HD video sharing• “If you'd like to share your videos from a high-definition camcorder online, there aren't a lot of options. The Web's most popular video site, YouTube, shows videos in standard definition, and usually in lower resolution than I would like. Not so at lesser-known competitor Vimeo, which has some big advantages over YouTube and other video sites.” USA Today July 2008
Alternatives
http://www.vimeo.com/
Peer evaluation
Visual story telling
Grass roots video
Promotion of high level presentations
Polish is becoming a feature
Provision in the arts classroom
Use in the Arts teaching and learning programmmes:
• Searching and embedding onto a website
• Using reviews and references to resources
• Search multiple sites: www.oxytube.com
• Download a copy to file to use: www.zamzar.com
• Download a copy to edit
• Embed onto a presentation
Provision in the arts classroom
Search and save the clip from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTO0BakU6c
Provision in the arts classroom
Embed onto a website
Provision in the arts classroom
Reviews as critical feedback
Provision in the arts classroom
Links to other resources
Provision in the arts classroom
Search multiple sites with www.oxytube.com
Free video aggregation tool.
Will search YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, and other video hosting sites simultaneously (AOL, dailymotion, metacafe, megavideo, google, clipsyndicate)
Sort by relevance, time, views or ratings
Provision in the arts classroom
Provision in the arts classroom
Convert, download or manage files with www.zamzar.com
Provision in the arts classroom
Download with www.zamzar.com
Convert to: mov, MP4, wmv, avi, iPhone, etc
Store in files relating to topics/genre/medium/levels.
Provision in the arts classroom
• Convert to : mov, MP4, if you want to edit.
• Cut up into chunks that will fit your T&L programme
•Be aware of sizes of movie and quality of images (especially if emailing)
Provision in the arts classroom Embed a movie onto a PPT presentation:
May need a still picture to see a starting image
Insert - movies and sound - movie from file
Click to start
QuickTime™ and ampeg4 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Web 2.0 toolsfor your teaching and learning programme