- The college has something of the order of 1000+ hours of pre-recorded off-air recordings covering all aspects of the curriculum. These will be catalogued shortly.
- All recordings are covered by the ERA & ERA+ licences.
- If you require a television programme (Freeview only) to be recorded and added to this library, ask. Also better to ask prior to broadcast. This helps.
- We’re trialling ClickView (http://www.clickview.co.uk/ ) this summer. Watch this space!
Probably the best place to start. And certainly the least risky. All of the videos on these sites are licensed for use in education. So if you find something useful, you can’t go wrong.
Film & Sound Onlinehttp://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/ Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.
Teachers’ TVhttp://www.teachers.tv/ Mostly pre-5, primary & secondary and with a distinctly English curriculum bias but there are many videos which can be used in a Scottish FE context. Try:
All can be downloaded freely (after registration)
SCRANhttp://ww.scran.ac.ukNot just pictures. Lots of video too. Most tends to be silent. And of more historical interest. Not the best source but worth a look.
Newsfilm Onlinehttp://www.nfo.ac.uk/
NewsFilm Online is a collection of over 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels taken from the ITN/Reuters archive. Delivered online in high quality format, this resource is a gateway of unmatched richness to one hundred years of news. Try:
iTunes Uhttp://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ Kilmacolm, we have a problem. (Somewhere in Renfrewshire anyway).
iTunes is not just a source of music which you have to pay for. There’s also a lot of (free) podcasts, both video and audio which can be downloaded. Except not in the college at the moment. (We’re working on it).
Examples of providers: the Institute for Research & Innovation in the Social Services, the BBC, a swathe of universities & colleges (mostly US).
YouTubehttp://www.youtube.comThe trouble with YouTube is that its possibilities are endless and yet using its video in education is endlessly problematic. Where to start?
Get yourself a YouTube account. (You don’t have to upload anything). When you find a useful video add it to either your “Favourites” or a “Playlist” so that you don’t have to go searching for it again. Share with colleagues and students. Whack it into an Embedr presentation. Simple.
Copyright issues? Well we'll assume that anything that has not been taken down by the owner can be used under "fair use". Just remember that some videos can disappear overnight.
YouTube EDUhttp://www.youtube.com/educationWe can safely assume that anything that is uploaded to the various channels that comprise YouTube EDU are both kosher and educational. Or at least that’s what I thought until I looked a bit closer and discovered various strange imperialists and other more dubious bods. The Good Stuff?
Format Factoryhttp://www.formatoz.com/
Best conversion software we’ve discovered recently. Certainly the easiest to use. And it’s freeware. Get the ICT people to download and install for you.
VLC Player / Media Player Classichttp://www.videolan.org/vlc/ /
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ Both are part of the college standard build for PCs. Use them, especially VLC, to play your videos; avoid Windows Media Player. Everyone’s happy.
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