Let me tell you just one of the values of the Vid Snacks community here on Ning. Not long ago I posted a blog, “The World is Watching”. My point was that students needed to understand what they were creating with video would be seen outside the school or the local community. As usual in the classroom setting, the explanation of TEAM received the usual head nods or stares, but when students actually began getting responses from the global community, immediately change occurred. I teach eleven yea… Continue

Hi,

I would like to share with you about a recent tool I heard from one of my friend. Its about how you can create a training module on a subject if you have a video about it.Very useful for educators and trainers.
If anyone interested, let me know and I shall give you the contact details.

Cheers :-)

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The Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival is now <a href="http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?p=238">online</a>.

Let the storytelling begin.

My hope is that videomaking, analogous to brain activity, is appreciated as a "physiology" for storytelling, analogous to the emergent qualities of a cognitive, creative, essentially human mind. Hopefully, students will learn the fundamental technical skills to the degree that they're applied nearly without self-consciousness of what they are doing so that their minds are engaged in telling their stories to one another and to us. There is so much more at play here than how tos of capturing movin… Continue

We use Wirecast to do our daily/live morning announcements does anybody else use this program? You may not be able to edit video like you would in imovie but it has some amazing things. ChromaKey is so easy, and switching from one shot to another on a fly is great. Check it out here http://www.varasoftware.com/products/wirecast/