Streaming video

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The educational use of video

Streaming video is the ability to allow many people, simultaneously, to watch video clips over a computer network in real time. This page covers the technical aspects of hosting and pushing out these video clips, how to create and edit video clips and some practical applications. At the bottom of the page, there are links to sources of video, royalty free audio clips and further information covering legal and copyright issues.

In order to create a stable streaming video platform you have 3 primary options:

1. Set up an "in house" streaming server and control the running of it, i.e. Windows, Linux, or Flash 2. Pay someone to do it for you (possibly using external hosting), e.g Trilby TV. 3. Use a free web based service which is externally hosted, e.g. http://www.vimeo.com/

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What is streaming video? Definitions

Delivering streaming video

This section covers technical considerations and some case studies, as well as discussion of selected external hosting options.

How To Embed Video in Classroom (PowerPoint) Presentations & Moodle/VLE

Autoview Presenter (combine streaming video and slides in Moodle VLE) - free Moodle block

http://autoview.autotrain.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=13

Grab/copy a streaming video to run from a local server or VLE (beware of legal issues associated with this- more here)

External hosting options beware of inappropriate content, but you can set up your own channels on some)

NEW for 2009 LSN Funded MoleTV
Clickview http://www.clickview.co.uk/home.php is a popular, versatile, and user friendly hosted service. Used widely by schools, with some colleges now taking advantage of the range of services.
http://www.streaming.co.uk/ Streaming UK Ltd offers a professional web based service, with many "You-Tube type of featues." A slick and comprehensive service being used by the University of Manchester and Northumbria Grid for learning.

         DIY: Private Video Sharing for a school, a district, or an organization

Setting up your own server? If so try these options:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

http://www.icecast.org/

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/

http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html

http://www.wowzamedia.com/store.html

OSTube http://www.ostube.de/en/ostube which has a free edition and as an example http://www.mylearningtube.co.uk/ I think uses a version of this.

Vidflow http://www.akhter.co.uk/software/vidflow.html which isn't open source but has some advantages if you use SharePoint.

Longley Park Sixth Form College has developed an in-house TV system that allows easy access, control, and flexibility for the organisation and its staff.

Since October 2008, Portsmouth College has been piloting its own internal media streaming service. Simply named TPC.TV, this new facility for students and staff combines open-source software with ‘retired hardware' to provide a highly cost-effective and simple-to-use solution to support teaching and learning with anywhere anytime video resources.

The Manchester College have a good example of a YouTube-style media streaming service

Stream live video from your mobile phone using http://www.qik.com
http://www.funnymonkey.com/diy-private-video-sharing
http://www.trilbytv.co.uk
http://www.fliggo.com/ -- Create a video site in seconds!
MythTV is a Linux application which turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a digital video recorder - Solihull College are using this system well.
http://www.videojug.com
http://dabble.com/launchpad
http://www.esnips.com/ (heavy advertising, but has lots of options)
http://www.vimeo.com/ (good high quality, and you can create channels)
http://www.youtube.com/ (watch out for inappropriate material)
http://www.youtube.com/edu - Youtube have aggregated over 100 Colleges educational content in one channel

Technical aspects of video production including editing tools

This section covers the pre- and post- production methods, i.e. planning and editing your video into a final presentation; camera choices and editing tools are also covered.

Overviews

The May 2009 BECta emerging technologies newsletter contains a very comprehenive overview of the technical protocols of delivering live video.

JISC Digital media has http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/movingimages/ quite a range of quality tutorials on manipulating the moving image.
This Guardian article produced in Jan 08 covers everything you need to know
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/17/tools-for-your-video-career/
The May 2009 BECTA tech newsletter (page 11) has a very good overview of the internet protocols of devliering and creating streaming video.

How to compose and storyboard a video production

http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/storyboardpro (free template)
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/digital_story (short online course)

This Open University (Open Educational Resource) short course called "Teaching using digital video in secondary schools" can be downloaded and reused. This unit explores the role of digital media as a teaching tool, focusing on video in particular. It examines the process of using digital video in the classroom and how to manage your project from objective setting, through story boards and filming, to assessing the success of the final result.

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1543

Practical narrative film editing (Free online courses):

Using Dvolver to storyboard a final production. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. The Dvolver MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps.

http://www.dvolver.com/live/moviemaker.html

How to choose a digital camcorder

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-choose-a-digital-video-camera

A whole new range of low cost easy to use video cameras have entered the market recently. These small devices allow simple one touch recording and USB download to PC/Youtube. Some of the best are:

 * The 2009 Ipod nano now shoots 640X480 rez video
 * The Iflip  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFP4_j7ED0w
 * The Busbi  http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=104213

Video editing tools (post production)

Microsoft MovieMaker tutorials and Photostory. Both free and very easy to use. Ideal for most situations.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/HowToEditVideo.aspx
complete set of free video tutorials (watch them online – using Quick time)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx
http://www.rehanfx.org/pip.htm : Freeware Picture in Picture Moviemaker plugin

Photostory (create slideshows of your digital pictures) very very easy to use

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

Microsoft Producer allows the synchronization of PowerPoint and video presentations

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/technologies/producer.mspx

Other and Open Source options

Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology

https://animoto.com/

LiVES – video editing and video jockeying

http://lives.sourceforge.net/

VirtualDub - takes a while to learn how to use this

http://www.virtualdub.org

JAHSHAKA. The worlds first OpenSource, Realtime Editing and Effects System

http://www.jahshaka.org/

Editing and video conversion software

http://www.bobyte.com/

Edit video online (for free) using a growing list of web based applications

Others (not free) including MAC industry standards

Why will your PC play some video files and not others? It’s all down to: CODECs. Video CODECs explained

"Rip" or copy your DVD movies to a high quality and highly compressed DIVx format. To play on portable devices and some TV systems. Use Handbrake
Watch videos and convert between CODECS with this free videolan player

Using video for learning

This section covers some practical applications of video in education.

Greenhead College provides and streams video content via its virtual learning environment (VLE) to enable concurrent viewing of content for all students and staff 24/7.
David Payne, Course Team Leader for IMI Programmes Motor Vehicle Section at Middlesbrough College, has developed an innovative way of using video to enhance the confidence and performance of learners on the Skills For Working Life programme.
City College Brighton and Hove: CCB Stream puts the ‘wow' back into teaching and learning
Northampton College: Capturing TV programmes for use in the classroom
Video on a Shoestring - Clay, James and Hubbard, Rob (2009).
Bolton Community College developed a series of video resourcesto generate interest from the local community in its adult and community learning (ACL) courses

Rob Talbot (City College Coventry) talks about the developing use of digital video

A very simple and effective way of teaching others to cook, by making videos and posting them into your own Youtube channel. See it all in Lucy's Kitchen

Great ideas from wikiversity

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Educational_videos

Resources and activities from the Film Education organisation

http://www.filmeducation.org/index.php

TrueTube is a free website which uses real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and debate the world of morality, ethics, politics and religion.

http://www.truetube.co.uk/education.php

Use free Web 2.0 tools to combine video with PowerPoint slides & screen grabs

Live video blogging. Ideal for voicing opinion, reflecting, debate/discussion - the list is endless, you decide how to use it for learning

http://www.blogtv.com/

Turning on the "turned off" kids via web TV;

Thousands of educational programs online

http://www.teachers.tv/node

Cooking by video

http://www.videojug.com/tag/food-recipes

Learn how to juggle. This exemplar uses short video clips embedded in a wiki, which allows learners to edit or add instructions. An innovative use of a wiki.

http://a6training.pbwiki.com/Juggling%20How%20We%20Learn

The art of digital storytelling. You must register to access this free ebook

http://www.techlearning.com/digitalmedia/index.php

Julie Hughes encourages the use of audio and video clips when her students are adding reflective conversations to their eportfolios

http://pace.wlv.ac.uk/webfolio.aspx?webfolioid=292117

Create a simple video newsletter (vodcast), or get your students to create one of their own as part of a reflective or evaluation assessment.

http://www.vimeo.com/clip:181690

Use movie maker and images to create a simple narrated story.

http://www.vimeo.com/clip:187283

Video the use of IT equipment to share best practice and raise awareness

Reuse existing science video lectures

http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-computer-science-video-lecture_24.html

Video any visiting lecturers or special events and keep this as a video archive. Or get your media students to storyboard and produce these for assessment.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/ad6ef5c9-da3e-40cd-86c5-3d0853f51425/Alison-Interactive-Whiteboard_powerpoint_version01

Copyright cleared video clips for use in education

Streamed videos produced by researchers and public bodies:

http://www.public.tv/index.php

The freely available Film and Sound Online database contains many clips:

http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/

3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, freely available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research.