Sure YouTube is a lot of fun, but have you ever used it for a class presentation or research project? For news (http://nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/), the arts (http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html), sciences (http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/) and everything in between (http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/index.php) there are riches of multimedia content available online. Tap into this wealth of resources to include multimedia in your research and classwork. In this workshop learn:
- How to search for multimedia content online — including images, video and audio
- How to cite online multimedia in your research
- How to insert multimedia in a presentation and on Blackboard
- Web tools for organizing and sharing media content
MULTIMEDIA SEARCHING
All Media
alltheweb Multimedia (http://www.multimedia.alltheweb.com/ )
CC Search (http://search.creativecommons.org/ )
Audio
AltaVista Audio (http://www.altavista.com/audio/default )
Woonz (http://woonz.com/ )
Yahoo! Audio (http://audio.search.yahoo.com/ )
Images
Clusty (http://images.clusty.com/ )
Google (http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en )
Yahoo! (http://images.search.yahoo.com/)
Video
Google Video (http://video.google.com/ )
Yahoo! Video (http://video.search.yahoo.com/ )
SELECT MULTIMEDIA METASITES
American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html) from the Library of Congress; historical multimedia digital collections covering all of America’s history
ibiblio (http://www.ibiblio.org/ ) consortium of myriad digital collections, including excellent video and audio
Internet Archive (http://archive.org ) cornucopia of multimedia content, including the exceptional Prelinger Film Archives
iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html) works through iTunes – must have iTunes installed on your computer; online educational multimedia podcasts
ONLINE MULTIMEDIA COMMUNITIES YOU CAN JOIN AND/OR SEARCH
How To
5min Life Videopedia (http://www.5min.com/)
eHow (http://www.ehow.com/videos.html)
Expert Village (http://www.expertvillage.com/)
Howcast (http://www.howcast.com/)
MonkeySee (http://www.monkeysee.com/)
Sutree (http://www.sutree.com/)
ViewDo (http://www.viewdo.com/)
VideoJug (http://www.videojug.com/)
General
blip.tv (http://blip.tv/ ) video blogging and podcasting community for user-created content
Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/ ) image and video sharing social network
OurMedia (http://www.ourmedia.org/ ) user-created, grassroots media
Vidpedia (http://www.vidipedia.org/) a “Wikipedia” of video content; “free video encyclopedia anyone can edit”
Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/ ) user-created video sharing; favored by video artists for its high-quality video files
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/ ) a popular, free video sharing site
Teaching & Learning
MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm) Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
SciVee.tv (http://www.scivee.tv/) science teaching, learning and research media
TeacherTube (http://www.teachertube.com/) the “YouTube” of teaching and instruction (mostly K-12)
CITE ONLINE MULTIMEDIA IN YOUR RESEARCH
APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian (www.proquestk12.com/pic/pdfs/ProQuest_Citation_Guide.pdf) excellent citation examples from the online database ProQuest
MLA Style (http://lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html#online ) from the Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley
MLA Style via the Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley:
Author’s Last Name, First Name OR Corporate/Institutional Author Name (if known)
Title of Document or File
Document date OR date of last revision
Medium (e.g. Online video clip)
Title of larger web site in which clip is located
Name of hosting library or agency (if appropriate).
Access Date
URL (web address)
Examples
Lucasfilm, Ltd. “Star Wars Trailer.” 05 November 1999. Online video clip. Star Wars Official Site. Accessed on 02 April 2008. <http://starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/ >
“Daughter Turns Dad In.” CNN Video. Online video clip. CNN.com Accessed on 04 April 2008. <http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/04/02/dnt.oh.drunk.driver.dad.wnwo >
Shimabukuro, Jake. “Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro.” 04 April 2008. Online video clip. YouTube. Accessed on 22 April 2006. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k >
Society of Spectacle. Dir. Guy Debord. 1973. Online video clip. Ubuweb.com. Accessed on 09 October 2007. <http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_spectacle.html >
ONLINE PRESENTATION SHARING
SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.com/) share PowerPoint and Keynote presentations online
WEB TOOLS FOR ORGANIZING AND SHARING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/) social link sharing site; effective for collecting, organizing and sharing links to multimedia content online
Flock Browser (http://flock.com/) social web browser and tool for collecting and sharing multimedia content
FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/) your own clearinghouse for content feeds from your various social networks, as well as your friends and colleagues
Google Shared Stuff (http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff) organize and share with friends & colleagues web “stuff” — links to content and more
OTHER RESOURCES
Fast Video Downloader (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590) a Firefox add-on that allows you to download YouTube & other video content
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