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>Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:46:51 -0500
>Subject: Re: #6928.5m Using digital video with computers (!)
>From: Cindy Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm a little late on this thread, but wanted to mention some of the 
video projects faculty have done here at Skidmore.  Richard Bonanno (now 
at Assumption College) had students in Italian do a variety of video 
projects last year (fall semester) and put together an extraordinarily 
successful "Italian Film Festival" to present them to the public 
(attendance was SRO in our largest auditorium and there was an encore 
showing the following semester).  The projects ranged from brief 
commercials to a rather elaborate 30-minute video adaptation of a 
Bocaccio tale.
This experience lit the fire and we are now doing projects with the 
other language sections.

The following  model for video projects is becoming fairly standard 
practice here:
-Students use storyboarding software to plan & propose content (often 
2-minute public service announcements; but also commercials or 
interpretations of literature).
-Shoot videos with mini-dv camcorders
-Edit with i-movie
-Add subtitles with QuickTime (actually we're automating this a bit with 
an application written by my techie student assistant in Apple Script).

_____________________________________________________________
Cindy Evans, Director
Foreign Language Resource Center
and Lecturer in French                   phone:  518-580-5205
Skidmore College                                fax:    518-580-5230
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On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 02:04  PM, LLTI-Editor wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] ---
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>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:36:32 -0500
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: #6928.2 Using digital video with computers (!)
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> Dear Kay Yang:
>
> Would you be willing to write a sentence or two
> about the _content_ of some of the digital video
> projects you have helped support?
>
> I understand:
>   proofing scripts
>   operating video camera
>   editing with iMovie
>
> ...but what would be really interesting is to know
> a little about the specifics of some assignments.
>
> We have a few intrepid faculty who are delving into
> the digital realm with in-class and out-of-class
> assignments. e.g. We are doing one later this month
> for a linguistics prof who needs high quality digital
> audio recordings of student readings, which students
> will run through a voice analyzer. We don't get much
> call for video, although we still do a TON of analog
> video skit work with no post-production.
>
> The majority of teachers we support are not making
> the leap from course content to involving students
> in now (fairly easy and) accessible post-production
> digital work. They assign streaming audio listening
> assignments, but that is not much different from
> having students listen to cassettes in the lab!
>
> I am eager to hear sample assignments, something
> I can use to inspire faculty.
>
> ...from you or anyone out there...
>
> best wishes from the back of the pack,
>
> bruce
>
>
> Bruce Parkhurst
> Geddes Language Center
> Boston University
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> --- Forwarded Message from kay yang <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:03:43 -0600
>> To: gayle pellicano <[log in to unmask]>
>> From: kay yang <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Fwd: #6928 Using digital video with computers
>> Cc: [log in to unmask],        Language Laboratories and =
> Archives <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ------------------
> Hi,
> There are a few instructors who incorporate video production as a=20
> class assignment at this university. I assist those instructors and=20
> their students so that they can use our video equipment and edit=20
> their video at the language labs. The instructors help students =
> write=20
> scripts. Once the script is proved, students start their video=20
> project. In most cases, three or four students work together in =
> group=20
> and they operate a video camera in turn without help outside their=20
> group. For editing, students use the basic editing software, called=20
> iMovie, which is bundled with Apple computers nowadays.
> In general, they put a great amount of time on the video project. =
> But=20
> many of them seem to have fun while they work on it. Especially, =
> the=20
> video project has been a routine in a particular language course =
> for=20
> many years and the instructors consider this type of project=20
> effective and valuable for learning a foreign language.
> For further questions, please feel free to contact me.
> Best,
> Kay Yang
> Multimedia Specialist
> Language Labs and Archives
> University of Chicago
>

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