1 of 21 I Remix, Therefore I Learn: Educational Applications of Online Video Editing Daniel Stanford, DePaul University IDDblog.org/presentationmaterials/NMC2008

2 of 21 Intro My inspiration: frustration with state of foreign language education Incorporating foreign language media in courses used to be a chore. Today, students have YouTube, illegal downloads, foreign news, etc.

3 of 21 French in Action Pros and Cons Pro: immersive approach Con: cost of actors and sets and crew Con: not interactive, not creative

4 of 21 Indulging an Instructional Design Fantasy What if students were viewing and producing video/audio content? Which process would be best?

5 of 21 My Instructional Design Roadmap

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7 of 21 What about machinima? started using clips from The Sims as visual aids good for demonstration of everyday actions and vocab (See Spanish example.) Con: limited sets Con: certain scenarios hard to create and capture

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9 of 21 What about public domain movies and TV shows? Archive.org has a great repository of movies and TV shows Includes classics like Merrie Melodies, Betty Boop, and episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show. Good for remixing clips from terrible movies like Santa Claus vs. the Martians (See Planet of Evil Mermaids example.) Con: no one can tell me how copyright status is verified Con: very small selection of foreign language content, no recent pop culture

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11 of 21 What about tools that use YouTube content? Stumbled upon Omnisio Great for rounding up video clips for discussion. (See Hillary example.) Con: No precise control of video inpoint Con: No adding or editing audio Con: Content is “held hostage” by YouTube.

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13 of 21 What about tools for captioning YouTube content? found overstream.net forces students to listen to same audio over and over can caption and embed new version via Overstream’s player (See German and French examples.) Con: synching subtitles is time consuming and somewhat clunky

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15 of 21 What about slideshow tools that support video and/or audio? Recommended tools: VoiceThread and Empressr VoiceThread is easiest to use; allows in- browser recording, direct image import from URL or Flickr, and viewer commenting (See Chinese examples.) Empressr allows in-browser recording and has most of PowerPoint’s key features

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17 of 21 But wait! There’s more! Don’t forget circaVie. Great for timelines, can include photos, YouTube videos, and text annotations (See examples.) Con: no playback controls on video Con: only useful for chronological events

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20 of 21 Hands-On Activity Go to jumpcut.com Log in with username: nmcdemo and password:nmcguest Let’s look at the video clips available. Let’s listen to a few audio clips. Now, make your own soap opera!

21 of 21 Wrap-Up Presentation materials online at: IDDblog.org/presentationmaterials/NMC2008 my one more tool recommendation: –Need to download YouTube videos? Try Clipnabber.com.