Archive for the Category ◊ Multimedia ◊

04 Jan 2010 Teaching Videos
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Information Technology, Multimedia  | One Comment

This is a new service our of the UK compiling great teaching videos available on YouTube, Vimeo or Google Video. Teaching Videos allows you to see videos which other teachers have recommended as suitable for education. All the videos are classified by subject and also by age groups. As a teacher, you can browse and search videos submitted by other teachers, or you can submit videos that will become available for the rest of the community. It is a great way to ensure that only educational videos are available in your classroom. There is a way to rate and comments on the videos. Teaching videos also includes the Permalink and the Embed Code.

07 Dec 2009 Edufire
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Foreign Language, Information Technology, Multimedia, Technology  | Leave a Comment

Edufire is a great platform for tutors, teachers and students to meet. If you are a teacher with special skills (e.g. you speak a foreign language, you know how to cook, you know how to program iPhone apps, you have special interests) and you want to teach them on Edufire, you can get paid for doing so. If you have in interest in learning, you can find a tutor on Edufire or you can sign up for the various classes offered on the site. Some of them are totally free, some of them you have to pay a very small amount (usually around $5-10). If you want to have access to many of the classes in an “all you can eat” format, you can also register for the Superpass. They even have channels with classes in various categories such as Languages, Business, Tech, etc.

16 Nov 2009 Educational Videos
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Arts, History, Language, Mathematics, Multimedia, Music, Psychology, Technology  | Leave a Comment

educationalvideosEducational Videos dot com is a site devoted to finding you the best educational videos on the web. It includes a collection of videos about arts, science, environment, geology, health, history, language, mathematics, music, psychology, sports and technology. They are only few videos available in each category right now, but the number is growing. Even though the videos are already available on YouTube and they are simply embedded on this website, they are better organized on this website for use by educators. The videos are intended for students of all ages.

28 Mar 2009 YouTube Edu
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Guidance, Internet, Multimedia  | Leave a Comment

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In the past few months, I presented many video sharing website that looked and worked like YouTube, but that were dedicated to education rather than general video. It seems that YouTube has decided to do that by itself by now offering a section on YouTube with videos from colleges and universities called YouTube Edu. The videos are mostly professionally produced and although some are mostly promotional about programs offered at these colleges and universities, some of them have good educational value. Many of these videos could be used in high school as a way for students to explore careers and post-secondary education.

07 Feb 2009 EduTube : The YouTube of Education
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Computer Science, Lesson Planning, Multimedia  | Leave a Comment

If you use YouTube to look for educational videos to use in your classroom, you might be interested in using EduTube. It is like YouTube, without all the cut cate videos or teenagers doing dangerous stunts. Videos are not hosted by EduTube, but are categorized and filtered by this site. Original videos are hosted by video sharing websites like Youtube. It is an excellent way to find resources for teachers and students. You can also use it as a way for your students to search videos ensuring they only have access to quality educational videos. It is also possible to contribute to the website by recommending videos or links to educational videos. The interface is available in various languages.

16 May 2007 Hands-on filmmaking
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: English, Medias, Multimedia, Technology  | One Comment

Today, I would like to show you a resource published by the national film board (NFB). They are “hands-on workshops” that will let students discover the magic of filmmaking. The visual layout of the website is interesting but download speeds are terrible. In addition, videos are available as Real Player files instead of the popular format of Windows Media Player or Apple QuickTime.

One of the most interesting activity on the website is producing animation movies using modeling clay. I have tried this activity myself in my history class and it was a success. The material needed for this activity is quite simple: modeling clay, a digital camera and movie editing software (such as Windows Movie Maker for Windows XP or iMovie that comes on the Mac). All your students need to do, is to build a background and make some characters using modeling clay. They take a picture (e.g. one every half second) and then slightly move the characters between each picture. Pictures are then imported in movie editing software where students can add voice, music and sound effect. Students just love this activity. Unfortunately, the website provides very little information on how to do it, but don’t worry, it is very easy! The site provides videos showing some sample projects.

The site also includes a section on how to do a storyboard (a story, frame-by-frame of your movie with pictures) as well as “picture-this”, a section where students can imagine their character based on their own style.

04 May 2007 A kind of Youtube for science teachers
Author: Dominic Tremblay |  Category: Multimedia, Science  | Leave a Comment

This website has been recommended by Charles, a reader of this blog. EduMedia Share is a kind of Youtube especially aimed at science teachers. Any teacher may signup to upload science related videos and other multimedia files. It recognizes many file types including gif, jpg and png for images, avi, mpg, mov and wmv for movies and flash for animations.

If you have multimedia content prepared by you for your own classroom, why not share it with the rest of the world! The site already contains files in the field of physics (including mechanics and optics) and biology, however it is lacking files in other fields of science. If you are teaching the properties of light, the site already contains a lot of files on that topic.

Also, any teacher may access any file uploaded on the website freely for use in their classroom. As the database grows, this website may become a “must” to show multimedia content to your students. Some experiments are just not feasible in elementary and secondary school laboratories. In that case, a video may be reasonable replacement. The search for videos is based on tags, which may sometimes make it hard for people who prefer to use a directory to find the files. A quick note for Mac users : the site works best with Firefox and Camino. It is difficult to use it with Safari.