e-manual
Untold Stories
Submitted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 16:45Description:
Untold Stories: Learning with Digital Stories (UntoldStory), is a project under the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme focusing on the provision by public libraries and museums of informal learning opportunities for migrant communities in specific regions of four countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Greece), through shared Digital Storytelling, utilising the potential of new Web 2.0 technologies.
Digital Stories usually entail the creation by an individual or group of a short ‘digital movie’ integrating images, text, and sound with narration.
Untold Stories enables individuals and groups from migrant communities to create, store, promote and share Digital Stories which reflect their experiences in their adopted country.
The website lists the stories in a repository and also provides a 'Toolbox' with 'Cookbooks' in several languages, which are in fact manuals: 'In order to help you with your digital story, our team has prepared a detailed manual that would guide you through the whole process of digital storytelling. This guide has information that covers the concept of storytelling itself as well as the technical aspects of it: images, sound,video edition, conversion to FlashVideo format.' One of those cookbooks is the English one: http://www.untoldstories.eu/eng/content/download/470/3990/file/COOKBOOK%20EN.pdf
Length:
web site
Table of contents:
* Stories
* Join us
* About the Project
* Toolbox
Planet SciCast Film School
Submitted Friday, February 12, 2010 - 15:24Description:
Planet SciCast (UK) is an online repository that shares videos, sent in by children and adults, related to Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM). Video submitters can access guidelines and a handbook about shooting a video, write-ups of the activities, experiments and demonstrations.
"These pages will help you plan your film, giving you advice about equipment, how to organise your team, and what sorts of things seem to work most reliably. You’ll find most of what’s here in our lovely Handbook, which you can download."
Year:
ongoing
Length:
repository
Table of contents:
* Why make films?
* Where to start
* Teams & Producers
* Planning
* Rules & Advice
* Demonstrations
* Other Sorts of Films
* Inspiration
* Safety
* Gear - Cameras
* Gear - Sound
* Gear - Accessories
* Gear - Editing
* Practicalities - Types of Film
* Practicalities - Using a camera
* Practicalities - Producing
* Production - Paperwork
* Production - Licensing
* Production - Using other peoples' stuff
* Submitting your Films
imedias
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
information center for digital media in school and education
Year:
up-to-date
Table of contents:
Unterricht (Education)
• Aktuell (latest)
• Praxis (in practice)
• Bild, Ton, Text (images, sound, text)
• Links
Lernmedien (educational media)
• Aktuell (latest)
• Offline Lernen (learning offline)
• Online Lernen (learning online)
Beratung (Consulting)
• Konzeptberatung (concept discussion)
• ICT-Entwicklungskonzept Solothurn (ICT development concept Solothurn)
• Prävention (prevention)
• Schulen im Netz (schools on the Internet)
• Freie Software (free software)
Weiterbildung (further education)
• Kurse (courses)
• Schulinterne Weiterbildung (school related further education)
• Pädagogischer Support (pedagogical support)
• Media Experts
• Veranstaltungen Rückblick (events – review)
Service
• Basel-Karlsruhe-Forum
• Termine (dates)
• Education-News
• Ausleihe (lending)
• Wikimedias
• Links
• Über uns (about us)
System requirements:
Acrobat Reader
Lehrer Online
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
Teaching material, media reviews, link collections and much more – Lehrer-Online offers its users everything they need for using digital media in education!
Year:
up-to-date
Table of contents:
News/Education/Media Literacy/Dossier
System requirements:
Acrobat Reader, Powerpoint, Real Player,…
Inblikken van Lessen
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
The project "Inblikken van lessen" is about teachers making informative video's. In 2007 12 teachers from 2 highschools developed (with support) their own professional videoclips. 16 best practices, a handbook and instructional flyer are downloadable from this web page.
Year:
2008
Length:
handbook +16 best practices
Table of contents:
This site shows 16 best practices / videoclips, an instructional flyer and a handbook (PDF, 38 pages):
Creating Videoclips in Education
Fase 1: The idea
Fase 2: The script
Fase 3: Shooting your clip
Fase 4. The editing
Fase 5. The rap
System requirements:
Streaming video
Use in your class
Filming yourself
Projects
Video sources
Video dictionary
Video platform
About Videoplein
Digital Storytelling Cookbook
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
"In all communities, in all cultures, stories evolve from the culinary experience. Making media, like making a meal, requires guidance, learning from our friends through the sharing of recipes and from those who spend their professional lives in the kitchen. We have helped over 10,000 people mine stories from their lives and personal media archives. Our cookbook shares our experience, some recipes and some humour to help you get started with your own storytelling experience.
Review a PDF copy of the introductory chapters of our Digital Storytelling Cookbook (2.1 MB)"
ISBN:
978-0-9726440-1-3
Year:
2010
Length:
40 pages (excerpt)
Table of contents:
Preface
1 Stories in Our Lives
2 Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling
3 Approaches to Scripting
4 Storyboarding
5 Digitizing Story Elements
6 Introduction to Photoshop Elements
7 Introduction to Final Cut Express
System requirements:
PDF reader
Additional comments:
Also available: Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives, Creating Community, by Joe Lambert. Digital Diner Press, 2002; Second Edition 2006, Third Edition, 2009.
iMovie in Teacher Education
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
In preparing the next generation of teachers, we need to take seriously the responsibility of empowering teachers with tools to assist them in their continued professional growth and pursuit of teaching excellence. Preservice teachers should understand the impact digital video can have in placing children's voices in the forefront of educational decisions. Pre-service and practicing teachers alike can easily learn how to incorporate digital video into their classroom instruction through the use of tools like iMovie. Below are four different applications of iMovie used in a single elementary science methods course to prepare future teachers of science.
Year:
2001
Table of contents:
1) Introducing external artifacts, 2) Modeling of alternative teaching strategies, 3) Reviewing and reflecting upon shared events, and 4) Documenting learning or presentation of personal accomplishment
System requirements:
QuickTime
Videography for Educators
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
The Videography for Educators exhibit features tips and techniques to assist in the creation of quality video products.
Year:
2001
Table of contents:
INTRODUCTION
PLANNING
Defining the Project
Video Style
Production Decisions
Pre-production Scouting
Planning Scenes and Shots
EQUIPMENT SETUP
Camera Use
Effective Lighting
Effective Audio
CAPTURING THE VIDEO
Framing
Cut-aways and Cut-ins
Camera Movement
Integrating Still Images
EDITING TECHNIQUES
The Art of Editing
Effective Cuts
RESOURCES
System requirements:
QuickTime
Videoconferencing Cookbook
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
This ViDe Video Conferencing Cookbook is a "how-to" manual about Internet videoconferencing of ViDe. "The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) promotes the deployment of digital video in research and higher education. Leveraging our collective resources and expertise, ViDe advances digital video deployment through promotion and development of interoperable, standardized, and cost-effective technologies."
ViDe projects also include ViDeNet, the global, virtual network providing video and voice-over-IP to advanced networking communities: http://www.vide.net/videnet.shtml.
Year:
2005?
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- How to Use this Cookbook
- What is Videoconferencing?
- Who are the Intended Readers?
- Why are Standards, Openness, and Interoperability Important?
- What are the Basic Ingredients?
- Bibliography
Handbook on Digital Video and Audio in Education - Creating and using audio and video material for educational purposes
Submitted Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 16:35Description:
This is a comprehensive guidebook for those who consider creating and using audio and video material for educational purposes in higher and further education.
The Handbook contains over a hundred pages of information about all aspects of using digital video and audio in education, including links to other useful resources. It is directed to both new and experienced users and contains theoretical, empirical and practical chapters that help you in deciding why, when and how to use digital video and audio in education. Whether you have existing material or want to create new videos, this handbook is a Must-Have!
With practical tips and guidelines to help you prepare, record and edit a video, software introductions, best practices, digital video databases, streaming media, links and a project web site: http://www.videoaktiv.org.
Year:
2006
Length:
114 pages
Table of contents:
1. How to use this handbook
2. Table of contents
3. Why I use video with my students
4. Thinking about educational video
5. Using existing material
6. Creating new material
7. Tips for producing video
8. Distributing the material
9. How to acquire the necessary skills
10. Further resources
11. Bibliography
This handbook is yours, so of course you decide how to make the best possible use of it. However, we tried to conceive it in such a way that it can be used in the most flexible way, according to what we expected could be your individual needs.
Of course, you can start reading at the front cover until you reach the back. However, you can also navigate through it using the Table of Contents, which we hope is sufficiently self-explanatory so that you will find topics and issues that are directly responding to your searches.
You can also just read that part that meets your immediate need: if you are looking for a justification for the use of video in education, then the first chapter “Why I Use Video With My Students” answers your questions. If your institution or department is investigating the possibilities of using video, than “Thinking About Educational Video” may give you pedagogical ammunition in the decision making process.
For individual lecturers and course creators, the following more practical chapters may proof more useful: “Using existing material”, “Creating New Material”, “Tips for Producing Video” and “Distributing the Material”. These handholding chapters are useful if you have the basic skills for video production, distribution and use but you are looking for additional advice. If you are starting from scratch, you may consider consulting “How to Acquire the Necessary Skills”.
The final reference chapters contain “Further resources” on production of (streaming) video, and on existing archives of educational videos, as well as a bibliography.