“We are now reaching people all around the world that, without iTunes U, we never would have touched,” said its vice-chancellor, Martin Bean, formerly the general manager of Microsoft’s education products group
Mr. Bean looks at iTunes U and YouTube as free marketing — an opportunity to take “all those active inquiries and those leisure learners and expose them to who we are as a university.
Other universities say that limited resources, copyright concerns or the reluctance of old-fashioned professors are keeping them from recording and uploading lectures.
The courage comes from taking the next leap of faith. Universities no longer define themselves by their content but the overall experience: the concept, the student support, the tutoring and mentoring, the teaching and learning they get and the quality of the assessment.”
environment which is fun and motivating for the students. Because they can come up with their own collaboration system they already have ownership. They also can be creative in the questions they set up and will spend a bit of time debating which questions should go into the final quiz.
I will perform the quiz myself in class. I will use this as a revision activity and will use each question as stimulus for discussion.
A recent study by comScore revealed that in October 2009, more than 167 million viewers in the U.S. watched an average of 167 videos each, while YouTube () reached 1 billion views per day – or 41 million views per hour – in the same month.
Video () now accounts for the largest number of files uploaded into online meetings on our platform.
you’ve got the videos playing on your site, make sure they are easy to share by adding a “share this” button on each video so that viewers can pass them along via Twitter (), Facebook (), and other viral channels
ou can also create screencasts on sites like Screenr in under an hour by recording voice over still images, screenshots, and slides.
Whatever type of video you create, make sure it’s short
The easiest way get started is simply to embed your videos on your Web site
You can create videos for free using stock images and still photos on services like Jivox,
they even embedded a signup form right on the demo page to collect registrations. You can also use services like Wistia to share a video with prospects and track how they interact with the video.
The power of video is that you can show prospective and existing customers your product instead of just telling them about it.
Make sure your videos can be viewed on many different devices.
If a video is worth sharing on Twitter, it’s worth making it mobile-phone-friendly,” since 40 percent of Twitter users access the service via mobile