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Animoto Offer – Another Great Back to School Deal!

Aug 9th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Animoto is once again offering educator accounts with a free upgrade to the “all access pass” that let’s you create longer videos. Other features to enhance classroom use include a way to create ‘dummy’ accounts for students under age 13, ability to keep classroom videos private and individual accounts for everyone in your classroom.

Animoto lets you create short “music” videos from your own photos & images. Your images are set to music that you select from their collection or music you’ve uploaded. Transistions and effects are all synched to the mood of the music.

Quick, easy way to create promos, presentations and more. Take a look at the education examples for some creative ideas.

To get a code for access to the educator’s service, send email to: Rebecca@Animoto.com

Summer in Quebec and Maine

StoryTubes Gearing Up for Next Year

Jul 31st, 2008
by pollyalida.
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One of the projects I really enjoy being involved with is our statewide summer reading program. And that’s how I found out about the awesome StoryTubes project. Children from all over the country created short videos about their favorite books. What fun! We had 7 terrific entries from NYS this year. Let’s have more next year!!!!

Interested in joining in the 2009 program? Check out the StoryTubes site for more information.

StoryTubes – Reading Energy

Social Software Showcase 2008 – ALA

Jun 26th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Not heading to Anaheim for ALA? That doesn’t mean you have to miss out on everything. LITA’s BIGWIG Social Software Showcase web page already has a number of videos and screencasts of presentations posted to it. There will also be some live webcasts and discussions during the conference. Check the Showcase page for times and details.

Among the many excellent presentations, Jason Griffey’s Video 2.0 and the New Media Revolution really caught my attention. In a delightful bit of recursiveness, Jason presents a video about new video tools that will make virtual participation in meetings, presentations and such much easier. In themselves, they’re very interesting, useful tools. But what happens to privacy when it becomes possible to broadcast anything, anytime, anywhere? How do we process the onslaught of media madness? Jason poses questions about what this media revolution will mean for society and what it means for libraries.

Note from the final section of the video:

We talk a lot in libraries about information literacy. We need to move beyond text. Text led the first media revolution. We need to prepare for the next revolution. You can use these tools to participate in the future of expression. If you don’t, your patrons certinaly will.

Think of how many schools, libraries and other learning organizations block internet video  altogether. Where will they be in this revolution?

Vado video camera rivals the Flip Video

May 26th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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The new Vado pocket video camera from Creative Labs looks like a rival to the popular Flip video cam. Slightly lighter and thinner than the Flip, it also has a slightly larger LCD. The Vado has 2GB of memory, the same as the Flip Video Ultra, but at a list price of $99 it’s $50 cheaper. Check out this review at Digital Inspiration.

Voting time in the StoryTubes video contest

May 6th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Congratulations to the seven children in New York State who submitted videos about their favorite books to the nationwide StoryTubes video contest.

All the New York State entries have been posted to the NYS Summer Reading Program web site.

To enter the contest, children in grades 1 to 6 made short videos about their favorite books. And they’re delightful to watch!

All of the entries from around the country can be viewed at the StoryTubes site. During May, finalists will be selected the following categories and everyone will be able to vote.

  • May 5 – May 11, 2008 – Hair-Raising Tales
  • May 12 – May 18, 2008 – From or For the Heart
  • May 19 – May 25, 2008 – Of Heroes and Heroines
  • May 26 – June 1, 2008 – Facts, Fads and Phenoms

The StoryTubes project was created by the folks at Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin IL. Staff of the Children’s Services department at Middle Country Public Library in Centereach & Selden NY were the coordinators for the Northeast region.

Free Flip Video Cams for non-profits

Apr 26th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Flip Video has committed to giving away 1 million Flip Video cams to qualified non-profits to help them tell their stories. Check their guidelines to see if your library or organization qualifies.

Pure Digital Technologies announced the Flip Video Spotlight program in September 2007 at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. We imagine the impact that video would make if every nonprofit organization had a camcorder to tell the world about problems that need to be solved, opportunities that need to be seized, abuses that need to be corrected, and people who need to be extolled.

The Program will distribute Flip Video Ultra camcorders. These are easy-to-use, high-quality devices with on-board software to enable editing, organizing, and video publishing through AOL, YouTube, MySpace, and other popular video sharing sites.

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