Currently, I am involved in creating an educational corporate video. I've worked on a script, helped to develop the ... location...corporate executives. So here are some resources that can help you think about creating videos for ... expertise of video shooting to make the difference, you need creativity and experience...we hired a pro who has done a ... : Shooting Good Video Tips Tips and Tricks For Working With Your "Talent" (Professional or Not) On Your Next Video Shoot The Digital Media Dude (great resource) Australia's Funniest Home Videos (an unlikily but good source ...

I was tempted to watch one of those great little Common Craft videos, the new one being Online photo sharing in simple ... implication of watching the video at midnight was that I woke up at 5.45 am buzzing with ideas for ways in which these sorts of short, simple videos could be used in learning and development, most particularly in the work I do. I'm been getting more and more into video over the last twelve months and I now have the dubious pleasure of a whole range of exciting new ... Getting Things Done ). Of course, first impressions when you see these videos is that they're really simple, ...

Michele Martin has posted on the great new video from for the Creator of the Machine is Using Us. You've got to check it out. Send it to your teachers, friends, colleagues, managers, etc. The next generation work force is not happy about what you have to offer. Watching this reminded me of a momment I forgot to share with y'all. While listening to Lance Dublin present this week, I heard a fabulous remark in response to a trend that Lance listed. He listed this: Increased competition for Qualified Workers. When Lance asked if there are any other trends he should add this came ...

... understand...... - A storyline is a good thing. I took the video first - on the sly since I wasn't sure of the course's video ... desktop Mac is going to be my next high-end techie purchase...... From the number of video podcasts who use iMovie, that may prove to be a good investment. Sorry for the video quality. I'm still figuring out how to optimize my final ... one of Discovery Channel's video editors. He recommended Quicktime as a final format. I may need to experiment with ...

Well, its Friday. Time for the heading into the weekend video. My Mom played the flute and would appalled and what this young man has done. I love it. Think of it as a live music genre mashup. Have a great weekend!

My DVD ripper of choice is HandBrake . A great app, with lots of options and presets, and the best part of all: it’s free . The bummer with previous versions was you could only convert video directly from DVD. You couldn’t re-encode existing video files. So if you wanted to convert, say, a WMV file to FLV, HandBrake was not the app ... memory with the new 0.9.3 release. I had been relying on the excellent (but not free) VisualHub for my video conversion needs, and was saddened by its recent demise . But with HandBrake stepping in to fill the void, my ...

... cool stuff. Jeff Utecht is connected to the AWESOME web2.0 video going around. I remember when Jeff created HIS Awesome Web2.0 video ... ...and we talked about posting it and also putting a link to it on the Wikipedia page. I had no idea his video was the inspiration for THIS ONE . He tells the story in his blog and connects ...

Sorry I'm late on this weeks fun "going into the weekend" video. I was pointed to mytoons.com via a Mac podcast that I listen...sorry guys I forgot which one. I THINK it was MacCast but not sure. Anyways, the animation below is one of my favorites. Proprietary software was written to analyze the music and time the beats to the launching of the balls. Its mesmorizing to watch! Have a great weekend. You can also find it at the Internet Archive . If you don't use the IA, you really should check it out. Its a marvelous resource.

I just tried video chat on Google and it was easy and cool. It worked really well. I think this is another important step to improved communication on the web. I really need to get a laptop with an integrated camera and mic. I wonder if this is enough justification to get a new Mac laptop? It will also be interesting to see if you can embed a chat module into other pages like Blogger and Google Sites. Time to experiment.

... related learning that pops up every now and then. Example: Someone asked about converting video to play inside of a ... conversion tools that are FREE and/or opensource. And another fun little video tool for blogs and websites is Flixn . You can actually put a video recorder on your blog for others to leave video messages for you. So cool! Of course ...

... after I spent a late night watching a 2 hour video titled The Last Lecture . Apparently at Carnegie Mellon University ... time then you should watch this Wallstreet Journal story video . He started a course called Building Virtual ...

Send this little to all of your friends and colleagues that haven't started using RSS yet. This is a great little primer is from the common craft show: RSS in Plain English Good stuff! Oh yeah! and check out the new USTREAM.tv block in the right column of my blog.

Am I the only one out there who is constantly bombarded with TV ads for Rosetta Stone and Video Professor ? Methinks not: Has anyone out there tried either of these products? Like? Dislike? Why? Do you think of either of these as eLearning? If so (or not), what are your reasons? Are you developing, or planning on developing, courseware similar to either of these? Let's get a lively discussion going here!

Call me sappy, but I love this! How many schools have banned Web2.0 tools and services? How many of those kids will be ready for their future? This video takes it's style from the now popular The Machine is Using us Video and/or RSS in Plain English video, and the follow up WIKIs in Plain English . But that's the greatness of the web in action. Kids learn by copying the things they think are cool. From there they begin to develop their own style.

Jane's eLearning pick of the day is awesome! She finds tons of goodies on the net like this one called SuTree . They collect, review and index training/tutorial videos and podcasts.

There is no better way to explain a wiki than to hear it from those who use it and find it useful. The folks at pbwiki have done a great job of gathering input from their users. Check it out! This page has many videos covering everything you ever wanted to know about a wiki. I'm a big fan of pbwiki...

Shai Avidan has been hired by Adobe. You've got to watch the video above to understand why this is a VERY cool thing. I love photoshop and, at times, have spent countless hours "cutting" out elements from a scene and being left with the task of recreating the background into the space left behind. You've GOT to see how easy it is with Shai's ... characteristics of the image. I'm serious! You've got to watch this video. So cool! Don't forget that the Adobe Learning ... the weekend video". Enjoy!

I put this together quickly, very late, last night. But I think it gets the point across. I recorded using IShowU which is an excellent little video screen capture tool. I didn't know it was picking up the application sounds because I could not hear them in my earphones, but I discovered that in fact it DID. You'll notice my comment towards the end about the cool application sounds. Session 406 is my session on Using ComicLife Tutorials for eLearning . I also posted about a web app called Toondoo.com that is cool last month. If you are into paper crafts check out this ...

... minute video will be interesting to you. Filmed in the Fall of 2006, it shows a glimpse into the classroom of Queenâ ... do you think about Dr. Jonker's video? Leave a comment below. Note: image attribution here .

These guys keep crankin' 'em out. I love it! Social Networking is also Social Learning. I think deepest learning comes from human connections and Social Networking tools make it easier than ever to connect to the people you want to learn something from, or with whom you are willing to learn with, together, collaboratively. Before there was online social networking I remember reading business books about the power of the "rollodex": Important successful people ALWAYS had a massive rollodex. At the time I remember thinking about the dozen or so people that I had on a piece of ...

Apparently this little gem is making the rounds within the Educators Bloggosphere (since August '06)...well worth 6mins out of your day to check this out... The original ppt presentation was created by Carl Fisch and posted at his blog The Fischbowl . Then Scott McLeod got a hold of it and edited it a little and re-released it in the format you have seen above. Repeat after me... RIP, MIX, FEED, repeat, repeat...infinity ...see...I told ya so! Most educators that I know are psyched and excited by Learning2.0. I used to be quite cynical and think "they just don't get ...

I can't get enough of this. The University of Manitoba recently posted the video of Micheal Wesch's June 17, 2008, talk entitled "A Portal to Media Literacy" where you can get a glimpse into how Micheal organized a couple of his classes at Kansas State University. He strives to create platforms of participation for students that leverage the emerging media environment. He shows how to let students participate in their learning in an open way to harness the 'upload world' they are familiar with. Some great illustrations of practices in wiki and RSS aggregator usage are in this video ...

So, go figure. I just post about Teachertube and then see this post (via lifehacker ), and hear Leo Leporte is using it for TWIT . It's USTREAM.tv ! Anyone with a webcam can get their feed sent live to a web page. This is cool and has incredible learning potential! Don't you think? I'm checking with them now to see if I can get this up and running for my daughter's Alcatraz swim this week.

... blog reader who captures a lot of different videos within their organization. They have "over a couple of thousand of video and audio clips that new hires and tenured employees are currently using for on-boarding and training." What they want to do is to help employees better access the video content. They've seen viddler which allows people to tag specific sections within the video. They are interested in that capability, but also in rating the videos, and especially rating portions of the videos. That makes me wonder ... To me it seems that having video rating and/or video ...

Looking at the Gnomedex 7.0 video repository to check out the knowledge and the speakers. In the meanwhile putting a course in eXe for the low resource health specialist Maria Zolfo.

AWESOME! Still unsure about SecondLife? Take 5 mins and watch this. Let me know what you think. Karl Kapp gets a great plug in this very well done video. Karl also sent me this link for a list of great educational locations in Secondlife.

Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your YouTube videos! Use them to: Add background information about the video. Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene) Link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video All of the above! You control what the annotations say, where they appear on the video, and when they appear and disappear. Annotations, once published, are shown by default. You can turn them off while watching a video through ...

If you want to get a sense of what Second Life is like and particularly what it is like as part of learning, here are some videos that help describe this. | View | Upload your own What videos did I miss?

While it’s not video conferencing, Google has added video functionality to Gmail. Many tools (notably skype) already offer similar (but superior) functionality. I’m interested in where Google will go with this. It would be exciting to have video conferencing options available for educators who are already using Google Docs, gmail, and other services.

Games in Education video created by Mark Wagner and Michael Guerena of the Orange County (CA) Department of Education's Educational Technology group. They have given permission to post.