I just completed listening your podcasts from last week. This task was perhaps a little bit more technical and we received less posts than usually. If you didn’t manage to complete the task last week, then you can try to do it this week. From the feedback it seems that people found Switchpod easier than Odeo for posting their podcast. You can see how Keith has embedded Switchpod player to his website. This week Mark introduced us his desk and Bonifatius told about his house. Rose had a nice background music played by her colleague and Juha spent some extra time to make a nice panorama photo. Thank you for another set of interesting works!
This week we will focus on video. You all probably know YouTube. Teemu absolutely loves that website. In our Wikiversity page we have links to many more online video sites. Unfortunately many of these videos are not really open educational resources. Most of the videos do not have Creative Commons licenses and you can’t download the video in a format that you can easily edit on your computer. Instead of that these sites provide you and embed code that you can use to post video on your blog or in some learning resource. You can see an example of using video in a learning resource in LeMill.
People often think that they need a video camera for making videos. Actually you can easily bypass this problem. I do not have a camcorder, so I’m taking videos with my digital photo camera or webcam when needed. The quality is not the best but I can still get the video. It is also possible to use photos, presentation slides, screen recording software (try Wink) or video clips for making your video. In YouTube there is one wonderful example of what people can make based on existing movie clips:
This week you should begin by embedding some video to your blog. After that you should try to make your own short video clip and post it to blip.tv and YouTube. You should also try to add subtitles with dotSUB. Finally you should write a post on your blog that points out the video sites that do contain openly licensed videos and suggest a process that you might go through to negotiate the open use of videos that you find that do not already have open license rights. As always, more detailed guidelines are on our Wikiversity page. Have fun!
PS. I made one video yesterday evening. It looks very amateurish, but because of my travelling I had to replace one presentation with that short video. I’m a Mac guy, so I used built in webcam, iMovie, ScreenFlow, Keynote and Audacity for doing that.
April 23, 2008 at 9:18 am
I really wonder about copyright etc. in you tube. is there any hint any where. What happens if you use problematic videos in your blog as you see above :-)?
April 24, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Copyright issues are often grey area…
In case of this video the person who has made the video has clearly broken copyrights for the song and the video clips that are used in the video.
According to YouTube Terms of Use the person who submitted the video is responsible for the copyright infringements. Often videos like this are not uploaded by the original author but by some third person…
If I embed problematic video from YouTube to my blog, then I should not be responsible for anything as long as I follow YouTube Terms of Use.
If somebody reports YouTube about this video and they decide to remove that, then it will be removed also from our blog. The player will just show a message about removed video.
April 29, 2008 at 7:46 am
Hans wrote: “the person who has made the video has clearly broken copyrights for the song and the video clips that are used in the video.”
I am not a lawyer – you probably know it already – but the issue is not that simple. The video in here is a political parody and commentary that goes under the Fair Use in many countries.