Grassroots Audio and Video with Felix

Felix' Grassroots AV event.
Start with Audio
Best tool MP3 recorder. Sony device ICD-UX70. Very popular for field recording and presentations
Woices.com mashup--google maps and Flash audio recorder.
Find location; click on map to create location, 'create Echo'. Upload your recording or 'record now'. Flash plugin

based. 2-5 minute limit? Maybe 10. File can be downloaded as MP3.
Then find 'close echos' made by other people.
Power of tool: create 'walks' or groups---plays series of recordings based on group. Comments on e/o statements.
Use with novels. Historical maps in Google Maps. Detective stories. Narrate a hike.
YackPack is down now.

NanoGong "the Gong Project" for simple recordings.

CLEAR.edu @ Mich State. http://ria.clear.msu.edu
Audio drop box. Demo had server problems... Good reminder that backup is essential!

Reminder of Audacity as a backup.

Voxopop.com is message board. Improved from ChinSwing. See also VoiceThread
Can have talkgroup or public thread.
RSS feed for subscription as Podcast. Shows where person is from with flag icon. Clickable links available.

PowerPoint: Record audio on the PPT.

Nanogong Java Applet on your server. Allows you to have Recorder on any page...

The Mixxer language exchange community from Dickinson College.

End of audio tools
Flip video camera. "Most successful purchase in the whole language center." Kodak Zi6 HD model records to SD card. .mov format with h.264 codec.

Viddler. Similar to YouTube. Creates Vidgets.

German media course: find native speaker. Invite to film them. Film the person. Write up experience. Had students use privacy release forms. Will take down if requested.

Think in terms of what can we do with these tools? Cell phones? Send students into community! "We create community"

Photobooth: on all Mac computers. Fake the backgrounds, etc.

Claymation
--learn how to manipulate video as part of literacy.

CallRecorder for recording Skype on Mac.

iChat for Mac and recorder.
Adobe connect used by SWALLT for monthly conferences.

MeBeam and Skype for multi-video conf using contact list.

YouTube for recording and geo-tagging. Add subtitles, comics and annotations, URLs, etc.
Make them public or private.

UStream.tv create a channel--live video stream, with text chat room. Invite viewers feature.

Narrated still images.

Blabberize

Pop-up bubbles for video.