Jason Thomas
Instructional Systems Technologist
South Piedmont Community College
EPISODE 2:
Introduction to Video
 Episode 2 will delve into the basics of using
video to improve education
 Future episodes will cover the “how to”
portions of the process
Definition
 Video recording created through a digital
medium rather than analog means
 Stored as a computer file rather than
standard cassettes or tapes
Distribution
 Digital Video can be accessed in two ways
Streamed, such as YouTube
Downloaded, from a link
Popular Sources
YouTube
Vimeo
Metacafe
TeacherTube
Hulu
Veoh
Reasons to create
 What are some ways we could use digital
video?
 Ideas to enhance the curriculum?
 Ideas to promote student understanding?
 Ideas to facilitate teacher collaboration?
… as a Teaching Tool
 Demonstrate complex processes
 Provide relevance to a historical concept
 Visualize multi-step problems
 Reinforce previous ideas through repetition
at students’ discretion
 Share examples of effective methods for
teaching
…as a Teaching Tool
 Group projects: field trips; filming speakers or
sporting events; a video tour of your
degree/certificate program for prospective students.
 Class activities: filming participation in projects or
presentations.
 Class projects: make video an option for some of
your more involved class projects. Let students
create their own video to show important learning
and skills.
 Extra-curricular activities: such as making videos for
other years or classes, school organizations;
demonstrating how to learn a skill, such as play an
instrument.
…as a Student Product
 Peer Tutorial Videos
 Infomercials
 Promotional or Persuasive Advertisement
 Music Videos
 Skits/Plays/Episodes of a “show”
 Documentaries
A Few Resources for Videos









Teacher Tube
Google Video
ABC Documentaries
Academic Earth
Best Online Documentaries
Big Think
PBS Video
Blogging Heads
Khan Academy
Tutorials
 Production:
http://www.izzyvideo.com/
 Techniques:
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com
 Terminology:
http://www.monet.k12.ca.us/Challenge/VStud
io_Class/digital_video_tutorial.htm
 General Tutorials:
http://www.umw.edu/training/inte/multimedi
a/video/tutorial/index.htm
Creating Video - Hardware
 A computer and …
Webcam
OR
Video Camcorder
(Flip or other)
http://www.theflip.com
Creating Video - Ideas
Approach it much like your students would
approach an essay
 What ideas do you want to communicate?
 Who is your audience?
 Why: what response do you want to achieve?
 How: which techniques will be most
effective?
Creating Video - Editing
Windows
Movie Maker
Jing Project
Creating Video - Uploading
 Can use commercial sites
 YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.
 Can use your own website with <embed>
 Can use Jing’s integrated hosting through
Screencast.com
Live Video vs. Animations
Live Video
 Give a “true”
look at what is
being visualized
 Utilizes actual
people or objects
Animations
 Can show dangerous
processes
 Can simplify complex
or microscopic ideas
 Utilizes Photoshop,
Alice or other software
Creation Resources
 Remix America - History
http://www.remixamerica.org
 Voice Thread – annotate videos
http://www.voicethread.com
 KerPoof – create comics
http://www.kerpoof.com
 Animoto –digital slideshows
with soundtrack
http://www.animoto.com
 Voki – your own custom talking avatar
http://www.voki.com
Other Examples











www.Dailymotion.com: Dailymotion is similar to Current TV, and offers a wide range of random
video content.
www.Ifilm.com: A standard video streaming website.
www.Megavideo.com: Mega Video is the video streaming service for Megaupload.
www.Tudou.com: Tudou is a China-based video streaming website. If you can't find a video on
YouTube, there's a good chance you'll find it on Tudou.
www.Youku.com: Nearly a clone of Tudou.
www.56.com: Nearly a clone of both Tudou and Youku.
www.Crackle.com: More of an Indy/off beat TV shows and movie website, you can watch
webshows and other shows you can't find on TV.
www.DevilDucky.com: This website features favorite videos grabbed from many different sources
and aggregated together. The website contains small videos, TV shows, movie trailers, news
recaps, fan videos, and more.
www.Break.com: This video website is marketed towards men, and has a list of daily video picks
on their homepage. The videos are outrageous, funny, and short.
www.Current.com: Currently in Beta, this website has a wide array of modern video content, and
is very similar to YouTube.
www.Newgrounds.com: An awesome and high quality website featuring user submitted satire,
animation, and humor videos.
Other Examples

www.Revver.com:You'll find a wide array of content on Revver, most of it high quality and serious. There video
base includes interviews, skits, product reviews, movie reviews, animations, and tutorials.

www.Sharkle.com: Not yet popular, the website is similar to YouTube and Metacafe. You can find a large range of
personal videos, new recaps, and tv show clips.

www.ZippyVideos.com: Another standard video content sharing website.

www.ThatVideoSite.com; This website pulls the most popular videos from a wide range of websites and lists them
all on the homepage for your viewing pleasure.

www.StreetFire.net: This website has thousands of videos, most of them dealing with cars in some way.

www.VidiLife: This website looks like a cross between MetaCafe and YouTube, and has thousands of random videos
to search.

www.NBC.com: NBC now streams dozens of episodes for free, including Heroes, According to Jim, and the Biggest
Loser.

www.Clipshack.com: This website features sort clips, recaps, and small videos of random content.

www.Freevlog.com: This website is aimed at video bloggers, and offers a place for you to upload, view, and share
with other video bloggers.

www.BroadbandSports.com: Sports videos on all types can be found on Broadband Sports, including recaps,
highlights, athlete videos, and personal sports videos.

www.Flukiest.com: Flukiest is a social networking website, and has an impression video collection.

www.MyVideoKaraoke.com: Do you enjoy karaoke? If so, this website is for you. There are hundreds of karaoke
videos available.
Other Examples










www.Phanfare.com: Phanfare is a unique video sharing website, as it is meant to be used with an
iPhone, and makes uploading, sharing, and viewing mobile videos easier than ever.
www.Sevenload.com: Sevenload is a sleek, professional-looking video streaming website with
categories such as Music, DIY, Arts, and Politics.
www.VideoBomb.com: The website is a basic, bland video streaming site with random videos.
www.Blinkx.com: Boasting over 32 million hours of video footage.
www.BigContact.com: Big Contact allows users to create their own channels, and offers several
professional streaming channels for anyone to watch.
www.Ourmedia.org: Our Media lacks a professional site, but has dozens of channels to search.
www.Stickam.com. Stickam is a twist on the modern video streaming site - you can browse
hundreds of live streaming video feeds and interact with the other viewers via a chat box.
www.Trueveo.com: Trueveo streams content from dozens of different sites, including Hulu,
Lifetime, and GQ.
www.Videosift.com: Video Sift works very similar to the popular website Digg. Users add videos,
and other users 'sift' through them, pushing the good ones to the top, while the poor ones fall to
the bottom.
www.ABC.com: ABC, like NBC, now offers a wide array of streaming videos, including full
episodes of their most popular TV shows.
Other Examples
(last one, I promise)

www.Starz Play: Starz Play is offered from Verizon, and allows users to stream hundreds of blockbuster movies and
the Starz TV channel for $10 per month.

www.Archaeologychannel.com: The Archeology Channel offers hours of free streaming video based on culture,
humans, and archeology.

www.Open-Video.org: This website is a 'shared digital video collection', and has lecture, documentary, educational,
and historical videos, as well as others, for free streaming.

www.Videoart.net: This website only has about 2000 videos, but they are all artist in merit - animations,
documentaries, galleries, narrative, etc.

www.Archives.org: The National Archives streams footage of past events and old documentaries, including space
documentaries from the 70's.

The News Hour - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/ - Miss an important news speak, coverage, or documentary?
The News Hour has regular updates of free, streaming news coverage.

www.Museum.tv: Docufest is an online video archive website with access to theater reenactments, historic video
and radio streams, and interviews.

www. vids.Myspace.com: Myspace TV offers a wide array of video content, including personal videos, vlogs, and TV
recaps.

www.UStream.tv: UStream TV is another live streaming website, allowing users to chat with each other while
watching and participating in live video streams.

www.Netflix.com: Netflix has free, unlimited video streaming for all their members, with a low membership cost of
$5.99 per month.

www.StupidVideos.com - As the name of the website suggests, don't expect to find enlightening videos here.
However, if you're looking for some good laughs, there's no where better than Stupid Videos.
Other Citations
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video
 http://www.techsupportalert.com/top-5video-streaming-websites.htm
 http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php
?id=1543
 http://www.openculture.com/2009/06/intellig
ent_video_the_top_cultural_and_educationa
l_video_sites.html