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This section is intended to help you find common solutions to video related problems. At first, this section contains streaming video help, but will eventually add video related questions pertaining to Internet 2, Video over IP, ITV, and any other use of video across campus.

Broadcast Yourself

YouTube has video and lecture resources for current events that may be useful in a classroom environment. For example, some faculty members have found video clips to explain a difficult concept and have integrated them in their classes. Below is a link to a video that a UCF professor created and placed on YouTube to promote his class as well as a video series he created. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogU0DZFxiQ Search YouTube to find videos that you can use to supplement your class.

""Screencasting" refers to a digital recording of the action on a computer screen, and is sometimes called video screen capture. The programs visible on screen, the movement of the mouse, and the speaking voice of the presenter (captured by external microphone) are all part of the video. The overall effect is similar to imagining a video camera over the shoulder of a presenter sitting at the computer, with all on-screen action captured. "

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

UCF Professor's YouTube example: This video series enables students to learn basic counseling and therapy techniques as the session unfolds.

Here is the official video for the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration. The event celebrates the publishing of the 1800th course on MIT OpenCourseWare.

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos, and view them in MPEG-4 format.

Download Jing - a free screen cast software. You can snap a picture of your screen, record a video of onscreen action, and share your screen casts instantly over the Web.

View the Camtasia overview video and download a 30-day trial.

Check out the developer preview at Google I/O Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.

MIT OCW is a free Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. An introductory video about this resource can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ-FeoEvTI .

Another variation of social bookmarking but you can create groups, highlight text in Web pages and add sticky notes. Your bookmark page was created with Diigo. An extensive and lengthy video regarding social bookmarking and how to use Diigo is located at the following URL: http://wrythings.net/2008/04/13/emily

If you haven't taken the time to try out the new Ning today, Robert Scoble has filmed an excellent demo of the product (basically the same demo I saw yesterday) from CEO Gina Bianchini. There's a lot of coverage from other bloggers as well.

Learn how to find books, journal articles, and other resources at the Libraries.

MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.

Games for Change (G4C) is a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the sector and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources. Through this work, Games for Change promotes new kinds of games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and tolerant society. Try to look for games in your discipline in the Game Channels on the right menu.

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