Creating /Integrating video & web-based instruction

Bob Gettings

Hokusei Gakuen University

bgettings.com

Do I use … Video? Web?

• Once separate questions

• Now, I’m using the web so it’s easier than before to also – Use video – digital

video or – Create multimedia.

Video?

• Rethink video – Multimedia

• Rethink video production– Edit on your computer with

expensive software?– Edit online?

• Rethink the materials we use (Good stuff cheap?)– Copyright?– Share, reuse, and remix —

legally

• Rethink video distribution– Self-distribution - your server?– Online service?

Rethinking video: What kind of video?

• Full-length Hollywood?• ESL training?• Topical, content-based?• On demand classes (talking

heads)?• Slideshow + voiceover?• Feedback video?• Screenshot movies?• Slideshow presentation?• Interactive?• Video or multimedia movies in

web-based instruction？

Merits and demerits of using video

+ Picture worth 10,000

- Available video doesn’t suit target

+ easy to self-produce

- difficult to self produce- expensive and time

consuming to produce

+ video as feedback is valuable

How I use web based video

• Student produced movies of their conversations and presentations for analysis (for self and peer evaluation)

• Teacher produced short screenshot movies, PowerPoint presentations with voiceovers, 15 minute content-based video lectures, or other produced

• Other produced video (movies & documentaries, YouTube)

Student produced

• During small group work one student is the cameraperson

• When finished, they give the teacher the SD card.

• Teacher uploads the file to the net (Moodle)

Ss produced video + feedback

• Ss open the video and analyze their strong and weak points

• Work on weak points• Make a second video

after working to improve the weak points found in the first and compare with first video.

Teacher produced

• Short screenshot-based explanations of computer based tasks– Captivate, SnapzPro

• Transfer of PowerPoint presentations to flash movie format with voiceover– Captivate, ?????

• 15 minute on demand lectures – UbPoint

Other Produced

• Full length documentaries on streaming server

• Web based drills and games on other sites (movietrailers.com)

• Free stuffVideo materials that don’t have copyright restrictions that apply to my class (LofC, epherimals, US Gov’t, other gov’ts, Creative Commons)

Ethical and pedagogical

• Does using web based video make it easier for my students to learn?

• When I use web based video do I honor the creator of the content as well as honoring my students learning needs?

Rethink the materials we (steal) use … honoring the creators

• public domain, copyright, fair use in education, Creative Commons, and Open Knowledge

Copyright or Creative Commons

• Ethics and legality• How does the creator

want their material to be used?

Copyright

• Law is different in each country

• It is important to know the law in the country in which you will be sued.

• Fair use for teaching?

Free stuff: Public domain

• may be used by anyone for any purpose

• General knowledge• Works of US Government

and other governments• Published before Jan. 1,

1923• 70 years after author dies

(Death + 50, Pub +50)

Copyright

• Freely obtained does not mean free to republish

• (Almost) everything written down is copyrighted – (Wikipedia)

• Some works after 1923 are public domain– http://www.archive.org/deta

ils/movies

• But even though there is a copyright you can use it – “fair use”.

“Fair use” (fair dealing)

• “for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research “

• Fair use describes conditions under which copyrighted material may be used without permission. (Wikipedia)

Fair use – four considerations

1. For non-profit educational purposes?

2. The nature of the copyrighted work

3. The amount of the work used (part of the whole)

4. The effect on marketing the original work itself

It ain’t necessarily so…

• It's copyrighted, so it can't be fair use.

• Acknowledgment of the source makes a use fair.

• The lack of a copyright notice means the work is public domain.

• It's okay to quote up to 300 words.

• If you're selling for profit, it's not fair use.

But, what if I want you to use my stuff?

• Share, reuse, and remix — legally.

Creative Commons Licenses

• Attribution• Non-commercial• Derivative• Share alike• Mix and choose

restrictions of licenses – the CC website has a step by step guide and link that you can embed in your web based creation

Choose the license best for you

• http://creativecommons.org/license/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licens

es/by-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-wid

th:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/3.0/88x31.png" />

</a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licens

es/by-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License</a>.

After you go through the steps to choose the best license for your work, copy the code from the Creative Commons page and paste it onto your homepage.The code will create a link to the CC explanation of the license.

Open Knowledge

• Open Content• Open Data• Open Access• Open Source

• As set out in the Open Knowledge Definition, knowledge is open if "one is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it without legal, social or technological restriction." - Wikipedia

Some OK projects

• MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/

• ArsDigita University http://ADUni.org

• Connexions 　 http://cnx.org/• Berklee School of Music

http://www.berkleeshares.com/• Physics Textbooks

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/3759

Rethinking materials and distribution: Good stuff, cheap?

• What are you using now?– Encode it and put it on

the web– Upload it to YouTube– Make a link (embed it)

in your class homepage or LMS

Good stuff, cheap? Search for other people’s stuff

• US Library of Congress 　＆ US Gov’t in general• British gov’t• Prelinger Archives – epheremal films http://www.prelinger.com/• Texas Center for Educational Technology

http://www.tcet.unt.edu/weblibrary2/• BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/• BBC Creative Archive http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/• Common Content http://commoncontent.org/• Ourmedia http://www.ourmedia.org/• Open Educational Resources 　 Commons http://oercommons.org/• Videoblogs and podcasts• YouTube, Google Video, etc.

• http://www.english-trailers.com/

Good Stuff? Cheap! Internet Archives

• Some of the films available on the Internet Archive are:

• Battleship Potemkin • Columbia Revolt • D.O.A. (1950) • Danger Lights • Dating Do's and Don'ts • Duck and Cover • Hemp For Victory • Lying Lips • Night of the Living Dead • Nosferatu • The Power of Nightmares • Reefer Madness • Sex Madness • Design for Dreaming • Un Chien Andalou • All seven episodes of Why We Fight • The Negro Soldier (1943)

Search engines for video material

• Blinkx http://www.blinkx.com

• Note the large number of news channels

Rethinking distribution: What’s your goal? Who is your audience?

What equipment do they have?

• Bandwidth• Broadband?• School LAN?• Home?• Old fashioned

modem?• Cell phone?• How long before the

movie starts?

Distribution it from …your server? Encode it as … ?

• How long is it?How big is it (MB)?

How fast can it be seen by users?

• Over 10 minutes? Or about 10 but high quality?– Streaming server, MPEG

• 5 – 10 minutes small screen?– YouTube or Flash, upload to r

egular server

• Under 5 minutes, small screen?– Upload like a graphics file

Viewing files: Client side

• Your viewers have to have the player software for the movie files you will use

• Windows Media Player (.wmv .wma )

• RealPlayer (.ra .rm .ram plus most other)

• QuickTime ( .mov )• Adobe Flash Player • VLC open source video pl

ayer

Streaming server

• A streaming server sends out a movie in small packets to your computer. The movie begins playing before all the packets are downloaded. You don’t have to download the whole thing to see it.

• Some streaming file types: QuickTime (Darwin), RealNetworks, Flash

• Streaming, progressive download, download.

MPEG - what?

MPEG-1 VHS quality (VCDs)

352 x

240

MP3 Most compatible

MPEG-2 DVD quality 720 × 480 + +

MP3 + +

MPEG-4 Scalable quality

Big is OK

MP3 AAC

adaptable

What’s your goal? Original Movies?

• Plug ‘n’ Play– Xacti -> SD card -> web

• Simple editing– QuickTime 　 Pro, iMovie o

r Windows Movie Maker

• Advanced Editing– Voiceover, movies + still pi

cs, titles & BGM– Adobe Premiere or FinalCu

t

Editing a video with MPEG, AVI, or Windows Media files, huh?

• AVI – raw video, high quality, large file size – good for editing

• AVI AVI MPEG File typefile file file incompatible

Encoding Software

Editing Software +

Encode final movie to MPEG Flash?

and upload to web YouTube?

Distribution: MPEG or Flash?

• Flash: adjustable size, low MB, FlashPlayer commonly installed

• MPEG quality of image is better

• MPEG transfer to Flash?• Upload to online Flash m

ovie service like YouTube – If under 10 minutes.– s It’s Imperative!

My own server? Speed? -MPEG Streaming or Flash?• Do you have a streaming server availa

ble? Any Mac is OK…• Do you have software to convert movie

s to Flash?– Easy = YouTube http://www.youtube.com/– Mac - FFMPEGX http://www.ffmpegx.com/– Super http://

www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html– MediaConverter – online service

http://www.mediaconverter.org/– Media Convert

http://media-convert.com/

What’s your goal? Share, reuse, and remix — legally.

• Necessary to rely on pre-packaged video?

• Why not cut & paste, remix and make your own?

• Gather graphics, movie clips and other materials.

• Make a remix that suits your goals.

Borrow someone’s work and add

• http://mojiti.com/learn• Import a movie from a

qnother site like YouTube

• Add captions, animations, pictures and cute things

Editing movies online

• http://jumpcut.com• http://eyespot.com• Homemovie.com • HomeMovieDepot.co

m • Motionbox • One True Media • StashSpace

Editing and distributing movies online

• Wide variety of file formats accepted

• Movies and still photos• Online editing, titles and s

pecial effects – like iMovie onlines

• View on the site homepage or embed in your class homepage

• Download from site in mpeg format

What’s your goal? Movie? Multimedia?

• Movie: Continuous movement and action Hollywood style?

• Multi: PowerPoint presentation style + action?

• Goal? Viewable or interactive

• For multimedia use →　 Flash

Flash = multimedia?

• No, but . . . • Concept: frame by frame,

section by section (rather than a continuing story)

• Buttons - can be interactive (eg. a tutorial)

• Each frame has a mix of text, audio, images, animation, video and interactivity

• Then go on to the next frame

toufee.com– Can combine text, images,

video and sound online to make a Flash movie.

– Cool special effects– Buttons and interactivity– http://www.toufee.com/mov

/MIAF20921165897095P

• http://www.toufee.com/tut/tut_III/

Moving from movies to multimedia

• Move away from– Long narrative action– Emphasis on the actors

carrying the message– Time invested in shooting– Control only pause, play

and fast forward– Interaction outside of

materials: teacher talk, worksheets, etc.

– Teacher control of the pace?

• Moving towards– Short clips strung together– Message added during

editing – captions, buttons, directions

– Time invested in editing– Control by user, clickable

buttons in movie– Interaction included as part of

the materials – dialogue between creator and user

– User control of pace?

Online videoservice + link to your site

• YouTube + your blog or Moodle

• Google Video +your blog or Blackboard

• jumpcut + your blog or postnuke site

• toufee + your blog or Xoops site

Just do it!• What are your goals?• Who is your audience

(what kind of web connection do they have)?

• Find good stuff, cheap!• Gather movie clips,

graphics, texts, cameras, actors and ideas.

• Make a movie or a multimedia!

Let’s try something!

• Explore one of the resources that we discussed?

• Open up bgettings.com and view this slideshow – connect to a link.

• Set up an account on jumpcut, eyespot or touffee, or mojiti– (name) + .com– If they ask for email give a

webmail address that you can access now!

• Make a video