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Courses from UC Berkeley are available on its own specially branded YouTube channel, an approach also used by the University of New South Wales. UMBCtube, a custom YouTube channel for the University of Maryland Baltimore County, allows the campus to blend community-generated content with institutional video offerings.
(source Horizon Report 2008)
Examples of Grassroot Videos
VideoANT
VideoANT is an online environment developed at the University of Minnesota that synchronizes web-based video with an author's timeline-based text annotations. The website's objective is to support interactions between students, instructors and their video content.
This is the official Youtube page of University of Maryland Baltimore County.
The MERLOT ELIXR project is intended to develop and test new collaborations amongst faculty development centers and online resource repositories
This is the official video blogging site for the students of MIT
Importance of Grassroots Video in Education |
With video easily produced on all manner of inexpensive devices from phones to pocket cameras, faculty have more options than ever before to incorporate video into their curricula. The popularity of video is providing new outlets for creativitiy and enabling literally millions of individual voices to be heard. Elon University for example uses digital story telling approach to reinforce research topics. Students collaborate to develop and produce a digital story that extends the traditional research paper. The technique is used in a variety of disciplines at Elon, including computing sciences, philosophy, mathematics, Spanish and French.
This is another video in YouTube, uploaded and recorded by VT media for the City College of San Francisco Culinary Arts. This started as Educational Television but later uploaded to Youtube for wider and easy access. |
QUICK EXERCISE!
Let us do a simple exercise.
1. Register in Jumpcut.com. This is a free web base editing site. JumpCut is an iMovie/Moviemker online application. You can upload and edit your video for free online.
2. Upload and edit your video. You can even import your videos and photos from Flickr and Facebook.
3. Flaunt your project to your teachers or students!