Friday, February 6, 2009

8442 Project

Here is my introduction to the Keynote Speaker project. I didn't want to pay a person to do this professionally for me since it is a school project and not a real intro. If it were for a real conference, I would have perhaps hired a professional to make the sound more smooth and perhaps the graphics more clear. The Conference name (LHK) and the speaker (Dr. Smith) are "made up" for this project.
The annotated bibliography will be posted shortly.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Koh--You have produced a very meaningful video with an equally meaningful title. It is amazing to think that educators in high-ranking positions are also being found guilty of utilizing materials without permission of the authors. Yet, this may be evidence, especially under the no mal intent descriptor and that students feel they need educated about the matter, that a wide-scale misunderstanding about the nature of copyrighted materials exists. In addition, you note that all types of media are subject to copyright, which is surprising to some individuals--especially students I am sure.

Overall, your video is quite informative and packs a punch in terms of the message and title/topic. The sound in the video is of good quality and the video footage is very good. Your use of various objects, graphics, and text work together to keep the presentation on pace. Nicely done I say!
Shane.

Koh said...

Thanks Shane!!

It is indeed amazing how, especially students, don't realize the implication and importance of copyright. On the one hand, I tend to defend them because of the whirlwind nature of the internet's entrance - it swept us all off of our feet with little-to-no time to really learn and grasp all the implications of having a World Wide Resource tool. On the other hand, where are their ethics in understanding ownership, blood-sweat-tears?

MS. Eder said...

Koh-

Your's was the first video I watched. I really enjoyed your topic and did not know (or think) much about infringing on an author's copyright. It only can to mind recently with a friend who had to pay a royalty on a test he was using in his practice, and posted it on the internet. Well, the author found it and he was almost in litigation. He removed it quickly. But, copyright infringing can be as simple as copying a workbook that says, do not copy, or distribute. Great job. I really didn't notice much problems with your audio.

Anonymous said...

What an informative video. I know a fair amount about copyright for visual content, but never really had the background litigation and such on it. I think it would be a valuable video for my art students to view, and then a great topic for discussion posts. Nice job on the technology too =)

racheltustin said...

I thouroughly enjoyed the video, particularly I found the introduction really captivating. I need to show your presentation to my students! I have struggled with some students and parents over the years to understand that idea of electronic plagiarism. I spent a year going back and forth with a parent (who was a college graduate) trying to get them to understand that if you take it from the internet verbatim, its plagiarism whether its copyrighted or not. They really don't understand that it can have serious consequences beyond an academic grade. I remember back when you could go online and find all sorts of resources from music and videos, to materials from the textbook companies (which I can still find with a little bit of resourcefulness)free on the web. Blackboard may have made the issue worse, because it is so easy to just click and upload lots of the resources the textbook provides.

Brad said...

Koh,

Excellent presentation! In my past job, I spent a lot of time with copyright infringement - wading in the deep waters of for-profit education. With the recent release of guidance in the fall of last year things have gotten a little clearer, but not much.

I really liked the cuts in-between the slides and the videos of you.

Well done,

Brad

Anne B-G said...

Koh--an excellent job! You were able to summarize an issue that lawyers write reams about into a short and informative video clip. Your examples were relevant, concise, and easy to understand.

Well done and great job!

Anne

emmanuelonyeador said...

Koh, I really enjoyed the video. You are quite professional and can see how you will pay to get anything better. I particularly like the transitions, the linking of the content to relevant references. I just started self-learning of video with this pproject and will like to konw what tools you used. Great job.

Koh said...

Thanks all. The technology itself was all new to me. Emmanuel - I used Windows Free Movie Maker. I bought FLIP video recorder (cheap, small). So I was limited in what I could do and could not make a presentation as gorgeous as Brad's! But I basically used powerpoint slides and converted them into jpg files to import into the movie maker along with the short clips that I did with my video Flip camera. Then you can add narration to the jpg slides.

Koh said...

However, Dr. M suggested I needed a video clip that shows that I can "move the camera" and not just do a still camera of me chatting and the copyright infringer! So I am about to upload my revised version where I added just a 30 second addition to the presentation to satisfy that requirement.