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Diigo Links 04/04/2008

April 4, 2008 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Diigo Links

Zamzar - Free online file conversion

tags: audio, mp3, video, wmv

Needed to rip audio out of a WMV with bad video to create an enhanced podcast.

    Convertube::Online FLV Converter

    tags: audio, extract, mp3, video, wmv

    Needed to rip audio out of a WMV with bad video to create an enhanced podcast.

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    Diigo Links 03/22/2008

    March 22, 2008 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Diigo Links

    USTREAM.TV Shows: Free LIVE VIDEO, Webcam & Video Chat Rooms, Streaming Broadcast, Stream Video Clips, Internet Radio Cams, Web News Events, Watch .TV

    tags: streaming-video, ustream, webvideo

    • Very cool tool being used successfully by Shareski, Couros and Injenuity to record and deliver video based content. What is really unique is that Ustream provides a chat feature for synchronous communication, allows for recording of streams for asynchronous provision and allows for comments to encourage asynchronous dialogue. A lot of potential here for education, if we don’t get in our own way first.
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    A vision of the mobile, connected college experience - Today in Abilene, Texas ยป Moving at the Speed of Creativity  Annotated

    tags: college, edtech, higher-ed, iphone, university

      The video is a carefully formatted and scripted production, but still quite impressive as a vision for utilizing mobile technologies in transformative ways for learning. I was particularly interested in the comments made by ACU instructors in the video. Students were provided with choices right in class, which they responded to as polls on their iPhone right away. Students self-selected a hybrid version of a class which included both online discussions and face-to-face meetings, or a more traditional seminar-style class that met entirely face-to-face. Students were encouraged to use their iPhone as a digital voice recorder to conduct interviews, as well as take photographs for a class project. I especially picked up on the comment, by one of the students, that most of the course lectures were provided in advance of class so the face-to-face time could be utilized for discussions and interaction. This is a vision of
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      , powered by ubiquitous student access to iPhones as well as professors adapting their pedagogic approaches to instruction in ways which appropriately leverage the transformative learning potential of mobile devices.
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        Top News - Schools respond to iPhone’s popularity  Annotated

        tags: college, edtech, higher-ed, iphone, university

        • Educational utility of iPhone in a higher ed environment. Doubles as a Student Response System, Research tool, Alert mechanism, Polling/Survey system, etc.
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        Campus officials roll out programs to take advantage of the iPhone’s potential as a converged, mobile learning device

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          Watch, consider, then respond

          June 1, 2007 at 7:49 am · Filed under Teaching & Learning, Videos

          A big thanks to Christian Long at think:lab for pointing out this great video. If you are a teacher, know a teacher, or think you know what a teacher is or does, then this is for you.

          [tags]video, passion, teacher, teaching[/tags]

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          RSS in Plain English - Video

          April 30, 2007 at 1:10 pm · Filed under Videos, Web 2.0

          Check out this great intro to managing the mass of information available on the web from Lee LeFever and The Common Craft Show.

          Bottom line: Feed reader + subscription = A more manageable flow of information and a happier you!


          Click To Play

          There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

          [tags]video, rss, reader, aggregator, web2.0[/tags]

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          Personalizing Learning Theory

          March 23, 2007 at 10:00 am · Filed under Learning Theory, Videos

          Thanks to Jennifer Maddrell for pointing out this great video which discusses the process of learning and the applicability of learning theory as viewed through the context of learning a new skill, in this case, golf. What is unique about this video is it’s explicit identification of the significant milestone events along the learning continuum. This video is a great companion to any learning theory course.

          [tags]video, learning, theory[/tags]

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          Shift happens

          March 20, 2007 at 1:22 pm · Filed under Videos

          Here is a sobering presentation from Scott McLeod based on an original work by Karl Fisch. Where does your teaching and learning praxis fit in?

          [tags]future, globalization, video, video, future [/tags]

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          EPIC 2015 Movie

          March 15, 2007 at 10:30 am · Filed under TechTalk, Videos, Web 2.0

          Starts off with a discussion on the evolution of web-based content creation and authoring services. But then goes off in a very Orwellian direction. Your life as logged, analyzed and remixed by Google.

          [tags]video, epic2015, whatif[/tags]

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          Vision 20/20

          March 15, 2007 at 10:12 am · Filed under TechTalk, Videos, Web 2.0

          This video, available on Google Video, was first cast back in November by Karl Fisch. It is an interesting exploration of “what if” over the next 10-15 years.

          [tags]video, 2020, whatif [/tags]

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          Digital ethnography - Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us

          February 23, 2007 at 4:21 pm · Filed under Creativity, EdTech, TechTalk, Videos, Web 2.0

          This has been blogged to death but since I’ve been referencing it in a number of workshops it just made sense to have it here on my site.

          Michael Wesch, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University, has created this 5-minute warp speed video that shows us the evolution of the web, but also how it has shaped and been shaped by evolutions in the types and social nature of various online applications. It seems to me that this movie could be just the tip of the iceberg and that it would be a great foundation or even a springboard for a larger study of how we are shaped by our technology and in turn serve to shape technology. The cyclical relationship between man and machine. Hmmm…

          Anyway, enjoy…

          [tags]ethnography, machine, video, web2.0, wesch, youtube, video [/tags]

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          Think you’ve got problems with technology?

          February 20, 2007 at 3:45 pm · Filed under Creativity, EdTech, Teaching & Learning, TechTalk, Videos

          Technology integration is not a new problem, just take a look at this YouTube video for an historical perspective.

          Passed on to me by one of my graduate faculty members.

          UPDATE: The original link was taken down by the user, the new link above gives the video but without the English subtitles. But it doesn’t really matter if you think about technology support and watch the body language!

          UPDATED UPDATE: ZrednaZ reposted the video by popular demand so I relinked to the version with English subtitles.

          [tags]helpdesk, integration, learning, teaching, technology, video[/tags]

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