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By James Johnson in The Blog Herald July 30 2011. Instructions on how users of Google +'s "hangouts" video chat program can watch live streaming videos together via YouTube.

Video Curation Engine. There are multiple fee and technology levels for this tool, including magnifyFree. With magnifyFree you can gather videos across the web and build your own video channel at no cost.

This video, by the "amazing" but otherwise anonymous Valerie, is posted to Nancy White's Full Circle website on Dec 13 2011. Nancy presented on change, social artists, and social artistry at a Change MOOC. This video attempts to both summarize and apply what Valerie learned from Nancy's presentation.

What do you think of the term "social artistry" to describe KPI? Or "social artists" to describe the work of the KPI team?

This link points to Microsoft Education Newsroom Video Gallery. Once there, select Office Add-in for Moodle to learn more about this new product. Video posted April 6 2010.

Engage in group verbal conversations that are collected and shared in one place. "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: voice (mic or telephone), text, audio file or video (via webcam)."

Produced by commoncraft, Aug 6 2007. This video describes social bookmarking in a fun and decidedly low-tech fashion. Runtime is just over 3 minutes. Please note that this video is for sale, though it is possible to watch an evaluation copy, for free, from this URL.

Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people with little multimedia experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their own media (images, audio clips, and short video segments) and place them into pre-designed templates, which can play video and audio, link to other templates, zoom in on images, and more. Once the templates have been completed and linked together, the presentation is published and can then be downloaded and placed on the author's website or on a CD or DVD ROM. Authors may also leave their presentations on the Pachyderm server and link directly to them there. The result is an attractive, interactive Flash-based multimedia presentation.

This is no longer managed by NMC. The website for the Pachyderm open source community is http://www.pachyforge.org/

Kaltura is an open source video tool that has plug-ins/modules for many popular open source tools including Moodle and WordPress.

Excellent video on how businesses need to redesign their systems to support listening, learning, sharing--more people you know, the more things you can do--"next practices" drawn from Jarche's blog

Very interesting yet short video on social learning as it relates to business but at first glance, they seem to apply to nonprofits/educational groups, too.

Under the auspices of the US Department of Education, discussions are held via a listserve about professional development. This wiki contains an organized multi-day discussion on using video in teaching and staff development carried out through the list-serve. The list-serve is subscriber based but I guess both the discussion and accompanying wiki are open to the public. Issues for me: Should KPI consider offering the organized Jam transcript in the form of a wiki? Should it be open for discovery or only available to Jam participants?

With a presence both on the internet and on TV (PBS), Teaching Channel calls itself a "showcase" of "inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools." The organization's mission "is to revolutionize how teachers learn, connect, and inspire each other to improve the outcomes for all K-12 students across America." Browse videos by subject, grade level or topic (all from the left-hand navigation). In addition, there is a blog. Users are encouraged to subscribe, and the Teachers space is also organized by subject and grade-level, as well as by roles. The site also provides a workspace.

Manuel Lima presents on networks (vs. hierarchies) using visualization examples. On TheRSA.org, December 8, 2011

Posted by UsingMoodle to YouTube, December 20, 2008. This video shows how to use the "unseen resources" to avoid the "scroll of death."

Free Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, and Collaboration

A resource site that proclaims itself the "leading provider of internet video and rich media solutions for the scientific, technical and medical market." SciVee was founded in 2007.

Video posted to Mimeo that provides an overview of Diigo

From About Us, "OpenIDEO is a place where people design better, together for social good." Using an online platform and a very structured approach to problem-solving (inspiration, concepting, and evaluation) are followed, ideally, by implementation, all the while, harnassing the power of crowd-sourcing. See How It Works tab for a video that more effectively explains the process.

I found the video inspiring. OpenIDEO's work is very similar to ours, though they use the power of the crowd while ours is (usually) at least somewhat restricted. But I love the clearly delineated process, the idea that more is better, and the fact that each of us might be stronger in one aspect of the process than the other(s). The website, too, is inspiring, as the homepage lays out all of the projects, with a barometer to describe where each project is in the process.

List of video editing websites and software with details about each on Squidoo.

Squidoo is a community site founded by Seth Godin. Members can contribute a curated collection on a topic of interest.

As per the About Us page, this resource library, part of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), offers a searchable database of conference presentations/handouts, PowerPoint lectures, learning modules, digital images, audio and video files, sample patient cases, etc. The library began with a 3-year, $400,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine, and is supported by a small editorial team.