Video!
A question I often get is….
“We are looking to upload a few 6 minute videos to our blog for families to watch. When we looked at the school-tube site they only allow for 100 megabytes. Our videos would be too long and wouldn’t work. Do you have any suggestions for us? We just don’t want to go through the work of creating the videos and then not be able to upload them.
My response is ….
“You can compress your videos to make them smaller in Windows Movie Maker. Most computers come with a video editing application already installed, such as Apple iMovie or Microsoft Movie Maker. These programs allow you to easily edit your videos, add soundtracks, change the file type, compress the file size, etc. Windows Movie Maker should already be installed on your computer. I have attached a procedure below!”
How to compress a video with Windows Movie Maker
Video Resources
- Free Video Hosting – YouTube and some alternatives
Video Sources
- The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites
- Intelligent YouTube Channels
- Free Educational Videos on the Web — How to Find
- WatchKnow – “Videos for kids to learn from . Organized.”
- Courseware, Podcasts and Videos — Hundreds of sources listed, including directories and search engines dedicated to free online videos – oriented towards adult learning.
- Online Educational Videos — Where to Watch
- Top Ten Most Popular Video Sites
- Top Ten List for Educational Video-Clips – that’s ten clips, not ten sites
- Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web – pictures, not video
Search
- Video Search Engines – about a dozen search engine or directory sites, links to related information.
- Blinkx Video Search
- - About Blinkx
- Internet Movie Database
- - About IMDB – contains links to a page on movie downloads to “about” pages for various free movie sites, and more.
Live Streaming Video
- Learning Network of Vermont (LNV 2.0) provides multi-point video sessions to schools in Vermont and entities with which/whom they’re working. See Trainings on LNV, Scopia desktop and Nuts and Bolts .
- Ustream vs. Mogulus – compares Ustream and Mogulus, mentions Stickam, Operator11, and Kyte.tv .
- Best Live Video Streaming Services Compared – rates about a dozen sites on four criteria – Multimedia/Playlist integration, Text chat, Co-hosting – Multiple web cameras, and Record.
- Teachers’ Guide for Distance Learning Classes (PDF), also Glossary (DOC) and Sample lesson (DOC)
More
- On the “web tools” tab of this site is a link to a Learning Tools Directory which organizes 2,040 applications (1,464 of them free) into 12 categories, with the top 100 starred. Category 5 is image, audio and video tools, which are divided (A-E), (F-K), (L-Q), (R-Z).
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Hi Cathy,
This year teachers do not have access to YouTube because of bandwidth issues at our elementary schools. Next year, once fiber is in place to all WHPS schools, the teacher logins will allow access to YouTube but it will remain filtered for students.
I hope you find this information helpful,
Denise Jaffe