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Ubiquitous Video not in size or stature, but the complete process of video from capture (capability built into phones, pocket cameras, Flip devices) to easy to use editing tools (some web-based, but full featured ones come with modern operating systems), to ease of distribution via video sharing sites YouTube, vimeo, etc all point to video being a common form of communication (and in terms of response via video), so that "writing" is now multimodal. See also the interesting work done with EDUPOV "point of view video" http://www.aupov.com/ http://www.edupov.com --Alan 22:02, 12 May 2009 (PDT)[very very exciting--porophil 18:17, 27 May 2009 (PDT)--CarolineS 23:20, 27 May 2009 (PDT)Again, I believe that the potential here is huge - --Ashfordrowe 20:52, 28 May 2009 (PDT)

Gardner Campbell put it nicely last year when he wrote, “For an academic to risk ‘failure’ is often synonymous with ‘looking stupid in front of someone’.”2 The safe option for most users is to avoid trying something as risky as new technology.

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