I have a bunch of videos I want to show my students, but my classroom doesn’t have the resources to show them any video clips, and I don’t have a laptop to bring in anyway. I’ve been putting videos on the HTEC site, but I can’t be sure that everyone will have the codecs to view them, or will even have access to the site on anything other than a public computer. So I’ve been trying to mess around with video editing so I can cut out some important clips and upload them to YouTube for everyone to see.
I honestly feel somewhat guilty for not having put anything on YouTube until now, as if I didn’t register for the draft or something. So I uploaded my first ever video last week, of Bush’s recent foray into French existentialism. Amazingly, the video has already been viewed over 1500 times, which I’m sure says something about something.
In any case, it was frighteningly easy to cut the clip and upload it, so I thought it’d be a good way of preparing clips for class. However, the other films I’m trying to cut together are all much larger files, and much harder to deal with, especially given YouTube’s 10 minute/100 meg file limit. My second attempt is uploading at the moment, I’ll update this post when its up and running.
edit: Here we go
It might only be of superficial relevance to your class but the Dawn of Man sequence from 2001 human culture, tools,etc.) would be pretty easy to show in a classroom on DVD, VHS, or laserdisc.
Yeah, I wanted to show that in my HTEC class but couldn’t find a copy of 2001 at Blockbuster.
Again, YouTube to the rescue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0
Jesus that’s sad. I bet your media library has it. You Tube is alright for disposable stuff but it doesn’t really bring the cinematic power.
Unrelated to your blog entry, and philosophically unsophisticated, but interesting that someone really thinks Wikipedia(ns) has this power.
“The power of the community to decide, of course, asks us to reexamine what we mean when we say that something is ‘true.’ We tend to think of truth as something that resides in the world. The fact that two plus two equals four is written in the stars-we merely discovered it. But Wikipedia suggests a different theory of truth. Just think about the way we learn what words mean. Generally speaking, we do so by listening to other people (our parents, first). Since we want to communicate with them (after all, they feed us), we use the words in the same way they do. Wikipedia says judgments of truth and falsehood work the same way. The community decides that two plus two equals four the same way it decides what an apple is: by consensus. Yes, that means that is the community changes its and decides that two plus two equals five, then two plus two does equal five. The community isn’t likely to do such an absurd or useless thing, but it has the ability.â€
-From “The Hiveâ€, The Atlantic, September 2006