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Articles tagged "video"

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12 August 2010 Embedding YouTube Videos

If you have chosen to upload your video onto YouTube, you can then embed your video into Blackboard, your blog or other website rather than wait for users to find your content via a YouTube search. Please note: Your video must be set to Public or Unlisted* in order for it to play [...]

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11 August 2010 YouTube versus Screencast

There are several media sharing websites that can be used to host your video recordings. Most offer a free version and the ability to embed your media onto a webpage such as a blog, or in the VLE (E.g. Blackboard). Media sharing websites offer varying features, so I have done a brief comparison of two [...]

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13 July 2010 Using the Flip Camera to make online videos in Blackboard

Want to create a vodcast for your students but don’t know where to begin? Use this guide to help you, or visit the E-Learning Unit and use our Flip Camera to record your video and make it available to your students.

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6 August 2009 Interested in creating videos? JISC Video Assist could help

Have you got an idea for creating video resources to be used in your teaching? Do you and your team lack the skills required to create the resources? An initiative called Video Assist, run by JISC Digital Media might be the very thing you are looking for.

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23 March 2009 Screencast from Techsmith

I mentioned Screencast in a recent post about another of Techsmith’s offerings; Jing. Screencast is a free service with 2GB of storage and the same in bandwidth usage p/m. Like many online services there is an option to upgrade to a Pro account which greatly increases these allowances. But, at least to start with, you’ll [...]

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Jing

What’s Jing? Jing is my new favourite application. It is, as are many Techsmith products, simple and focused. No extraneous features or extra buttons; it just does what it does.
So what does it do? It’s a free application that works as an excellent screen recorder; either video or a still image. It sits in a [...]

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20 November 2008 Sharing Practice in E-Learning seminar in December

Educational and Staff Development are again hosting a series of E-Learning Case Studies. In these sessions e-learning practitioners from around QMUL will present their work and invite questions from attendees on their projects and methods. The first of these for the 08/09 academic year is on 8th December 2008 in the ESD Conference Room (FB [...]

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13 August 2008 Why use other media?

Different kinds of information are better suited to some media than others. “The medium is the message”; obviously the spoken word can convey information for language learners that text cannot. This does not make it better as the reverse is also true. Simply consider your choices and select what best suits your objectives.
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12 June 2007 Free Tools: Motionbox

See: http://www.motionbox.com/welcome
Very brief note on this. It looks like a fantastic online system for sharing videos.
For me it has a few notable advantages:

The video can be secure and shared as you would like
It displays a ‘thumbnail’ view of the video, so it’s much easier to navigate
You can add notes and titles to different segments of [...]

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