Video & Education News
WatchKnow Launches with over 10,000 Educational Video Clips
Monday, 26 October, 2009 - 11:39
After quite some development time, the much heralded WatchKnow video service for educationalists was launched on 21st October.
The site currently offers 10,000 videos placed in over 2,000 categories, arranged in a very handy directory. Those behind the site which includes Larry Sanger, co-founder of wikipedia, Larry Lessig of Creative Commons fame and Jack Koumi, well-known in European video in education circles, describe WatchKnow as a new kind of wiki where working together, contributors can "edit video information, and they can also edit the directory by drag and drop, which will make...
3D Video Starting to Become a Reality for Schools
Monday, 19 October, 2009 - 12:28
Reporting in this month's eSchool News, Meris Stansbury highlights the interest being taken in US schools for 3D video.
Expecting that schools will be piloting new 3D video services within the next 12 months, Meris describes the way 3D video can be used to really enhance teaching in subjects like biology, maths and science. This article goes on to describe some of the commercial players investing in technical developments in this area. In mainstream video production circles, 3D has moved from being a somewhat odd backwater of interest involving the use of different types of glasses to a hot...
Moving Image Gateway Provides Rich Resource of Video Materials
Saturday, 10 October, 2009 - 18:16
The Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,000 web sites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher and further education.
This site established and managed by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) provides a rich resource of materials which are sub-divided over 40 subject areas grouped under Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Bio-medical and Social Sciences. Each site has been evaluated by BUFVC staff and many of the resources available in this collection could also be used by those involved in secondary education. BUFVC is a...
State of Indiana launches Free Resource Database for Schools
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009 - 16:43
The US State of Indiana, Comcast Corp., and Discovery Education have recently teamed up to provide students with free on-demand digital resources aligned with state standards.
The service, Discovery Education On Demand By Comcast claims to be the first offer of its kind in the US and provides Indiana families with instant, at-home access to educational video clips, hands-on activities, interactive content, subject guides, puzzles, and homework help tools. Content is available at no additional cost to cable subscribers which currently includes more than 200 videos which aim to "engage...
JISC Launch Digital Media Newsletter
Saturday, 26 September, 2009 - 14:48
JISC Digital Media in the UK is a service which provides advice, guidance and training on the creation and use of digital media resources.
The Digital Media service is offered to the UK's Further and Higher Education community and covers creating digital media resources (specifically still images, moving images and sound resources), delivering digital media resources to users, using digital media resources to support teaching, learning and research and managing both small and large scale digitisation projects.
JISC Digital Media have just launched an interesting newsletter called Intermedia...
Danish Schools Access to Video Archives
Monday, 21 September, 2009 - 11:23
A recent newsletter report from the Educational Repositories Network described several initiatives related to the use of video and other resources driven by national broadcasters including the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
In this report, Ole Hjortdal reports on the Danish schools initiatives driven by DR. The Danish Broadcasting Corporation is an independent, licence financed public institution. As a public service organisation DR is obliged to broadcast education programmes and services. Within education DR works with: Educational TV-programmes (with topics like globalisation, climate...
ICEM conference in October
Thursday, 3 September, 2009 - 12:07
International Council for Educational Media (ICEM) have announced further details of their annual conference being held this year in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates from October 6-8, 2009.
Entitled “Literacy and You in a Digital Age”. This conference features a whole series of workshops on practical issues ranging from how to design successful educational videos to the use of specific products like InDesign and Photoshop.
US Video News Site for Students
Thursday, 3 September, 2009 - 12:06
The recently launched eSchool News Site provides a place for American students to upload short videos on topics related to eductional technology. It includes videos about the latest developments in educational technology and debates on topics incuding the relative merits of 'bricks and mortar' and 'virtual' schools.
Europeana
Thursday, 3 September, 2009 - 12:05
Europeana provides access to millions of digitized items from European museums,libraries, archives and multi-media collections and is growing everyday.
Originally proposed in 2005 by a number of European presidents as a way to ensure that Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage took its rightful place among the information resources of the digital world, the prototype for this digital library already links to 4.2 million digital objects from more than 1000 organisations. The plan is to link to more than 10 million digital objects by the time version 1.0 is ready in 2010.
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Viducate Forum in Vilnius to Explore Media Education
Thursday, 3 September, 2009 - 11:53
Viducate is a European network exploring video production in the area of education supported by the European Commission.
The next Viducate Forum on Video Education will be held in Vilnius on 18/19 September. This forum will explore issues in media education and digital literacy and will address issues related to the use of media in schools. Find out more from the project web site.