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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Quick Capture for Education??
You tube recently launched its Quick Capture which is a very cheap way of recording your class presentations that can be easily embedded in your blogs and wiki. All you have to have is an inexpensive webcam and computer microphone and you are ready to use Youtube's Quick Capture. The only problem would be it is very hard to copy the video that you created from youtube to your own computer. So it is not for "very important" presentations because it will be hard to make a copy of it once it is in youtube. But for simple class presentations---it is a nice alternative to the expensive multi-media- web-based education systems in the market. (For more information about this please click here)
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Ryan -
ReplyDeleteCheck out http://www.versiontracker.com and search under the OS of your choice using "youtube" as the search text. There are several utilities that supposedly can extract the video to a local copy of some sort. It could be a form of screencapture or cache capture, I'm not sure. Usually these apps have a trial mode of some sort too.
The thing about capturing class activity is that no matter which way you branch the workflow, there's no easy way around certain tasks. You can record it with a Flip video thing, but then you have to learn how to encode it. Or, like you said, use a method that bypasses the encoding phase, but then you have to jump through hoops to peel off a local copy.
My favorite free encoder, for those recording/encoding rather than via Quick Capture, is MPEG Streamclip (Mac or PC). Works with just about everything coming or going, though some things require licensed plugins, like encoding to Flash Video (FLV). Luckily, with YT, they don't care too much what you feed them. They munch it up to whatever works for their system anyway.
I just read through the article you linked and agree that this quick capture tool could be very helpful for an educator. While there is no editing or post porduction tools, I could see myself recording lectures to keep in a single online space where student can easily find materials they missed or want to revisit. I also remember hating when I got sick and had to miss a day in school in high school because I would miss so much material in a single day. How awesome would it have been if I could've visited the school's You Tube site and found the lectures that correspond with the day I was out sick! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely this is a great way to use an inexpensive learning technique. You can find almost anything on YouTube and it doesn't take much to use YouTubes Quick Capture as an inexpensive way to make ur own.
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