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Web video conferencing means that webcams or digital video cameras are hooked to computers which share video with 2 or more users over the Internet. Great Britain's television-based university began with providing video to its students to enable them to dialog with faculty and classmates around the country and extended it to the web with the Global Lecture Hall which is used for dialog across continents. New uses are continually emerging as the technonlogy advances. Video conferencing also provides an array of specialized skills for student teams that further engage their collaboration. There are many software applications used for video conferencing. One of the first was an application called CU-SeeMe. It worked with a video camcorder connected to a personal computer which digitized what the camera is showing live. The live video was then broadcast over the net originally as a small black and white image at a fraction of the normal speed of video, generally 10 frames per second or less instead of 30.
See prior links for indexes to videotape and film. Be sure and write the company to obtain copyright clearance.
Searchable Online Educational Video Resources, tens of thousands of online educational videos resources
Film Studio Internet Releases
- Teachers' Domain, registration is simple and free.
- United Streaming, 30 day free trial
Power Hint: if your browser supports it, after you have started your download, choose New Window from your file menu, wait for a second window to appear, then activate whatever feature you have for stopping transmission (click "stop" in Netscape) in the second window. Move the windows so you can watch the progress of the download at the bottom of your screen of the first window. You can now jump to second web window while the first window is still downloading the video! Browse your second window until the transfer is done in the first window, then switch back to the first window and watch the video at your own pace.A wide range of movie trailers are available online.
Computer Video Archives
WAXWeb is a merging of the movie Wax with a MUD (multiuser domain). It is formed from the script, 600 pages of supplementary text, 2,000 stills, 600 MPEG-compressed video clips and the audio of the film in four languages.
Tutorial for Digitizing Stills/Photo's, pulling them from video sources such as videodisc, videotape and television broadcasts. These digital images can be used as slides in your Web pages or in many other applications, including the word processor. You will need the GIF Converter program or one similar to put your images in a format that the Web and the Internet can display automatically, a process which just takes a minute once learned.
Thousands of live and on-demand video resources are available directly to your computer desktop over the Internet. This process began to take off in 1997. The video products go by a strange set of acronyms and names, ITV (Instructional TeleVision), Web TV, and VOD (Video on Demand). See the Review of Developments, by Yahoo's Internet Life, 1997. The number of such Internet based video resources by commercial video and film providers has been growing rapidly. Thousands of other web citizens have simply hooked a live camera to the Internet, providing live and unedited video from every continent.
For the first time in history, one "page" can at the same time display print, image, animation, radio and TV. Our educational system spends years and years advancing reading and writing skills, but spends no time teaching learners to integrate all or different combinations of the other media on the same page. Web browsers and the Internet give this media composition (MC) a global audience. This new form of composing, MC, also moves us from emphasis on being effective media consumers (readers, viewers, listeners), to being effective media creators (writers, producers, developers). This is as important a psychological breakthrough as it is a technological breakthrough.A Range of Media Composition models:
ITV (an example of a list of videoclips)