This press release describes a Bb building block to access NBC News Archives on Demand, with historical and current photos, videos, etc. Could be useful for instructors and for those student video projects.
The NBC service has a fee, although the building block is free, and "... some limited uses of NBC News Archives on Demand are free, including searching and browsing, creating playlists and mashups, viewing short previews of footage, and embedding multimedia in Blackboard courses."
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/10/08/nbc-blackboard-bring-free-multimedia-resources-to-lms.aspx
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blackboard-adds-multimedia-content-from-nbc-news-to-the-blackboard-learn-platform-63751562.html
This seems worth exploring.
2 questions:
1) Will students be able to search and grab videos for their own use.
2) How much control of the videos will the students have of the videos to mash them up in iMovie etc.
Simply providing media is no longer enough - we need to provide a way for students to do something with that media.
Of course the usual concerns apply about material behind locked behind walls......
Posted by: Joshua Kim | October 13, 2009 at 08:15 PM