The implications of videoblogging for teaching and learning

What are the implications of videoblogging for teaching and learning? How can it be used in education? Also, can vlogging be used for our IDE classes?

During the first week we discussed on the topic of asynchronous communication, which is a commonly used method based on the advanced technologies. Videoblogging is also a kind of asynchronous communication just like text blog and podcasting. Then I think about that whether vlog can be took advantage of for our courses. Take the IDE611 course as an example. Since it is an on-line course, we don’t have opportunity to contact the professor face to face, and we have no chance to know more about our professor’s background and other information except on the orientation, the very beginning of the semester. The only ways we contact each other are via e-mail and blackboard.

What if we incorporate vlogging into our on-line study? For instance, if our teacher can create a vlog which has videos introducing the course and herself posted on it, it would be more attractive and clear for us to understand the course. We can reply to the teacher and other students with video or text too. Vidoeblogs can also be used for personal expression and reflection. As a result, videoblogs are being incorporated into e-portfolios and presentations. Using vlogging for digital story telling may be one way to encourage strong student participation in discussion and e-projects.

Here is an article 7 things you should know about vedioblogging. It gives a clear and brief synthesize of what is vlogging, what are the implications for teaching and learning, etc.

Vlogging: How to have your own vlogging?

When I was a little girl, I dreamed to be a movie star someday. However, the real world sometimes is not as wonderful as my dream, and sometimes it is crutial. I have walked further and further from my actress dream which is already a "mirage" now. But when I go to know video bogging, my mind changed.

When I surf the internet, I can see videos everywhere on different kinds of websites even on the official news websites. The editor of these videos have different kind of occupations. They can be journalists, students, teachers, movie stars and plioticians, etc. Everyone is a protential film director, an actor/actress,and we can tell lively stories via Vlogging.

How to create your own Vlogging? It's not hard to understant the vlogging, and we have seen so many videos created by other vloggers. But it is a question for a new learner. Then, this link will give a good help that illastrate the process step by step: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/07/27/vlog.html

Go here http://freevlog.org/, you can watch wideo tutarials on telling stories , making cideos and publishing videos on the web. This website contains a video which impressed me a lot. This video is about home-birth. The video not only recorded this very valuable moment, also give the mother chances to look back herself at that moment via this lively way.

PS, I am on the way learning how to make vlogging of my own~ Hope my dearm will come true someday in future.

Get to know the Vlogging!

Hi everyone! This is my first post in my first blog. So many amazing things and so many first time things happened during the last weeks. Although there is only one day every week that we have classes in our program, I still feel very busy, for I spent a lot of time adjusting this new city, getting to know people here, attending different seminars and parties. I enjoy the city, the university and the life here so much. How amazing and excited!

Now I need to control my emotion and talk about something about my blog topic “Vlogging”. What is vlogging? The definition from Wikipedia is that Vlogging is the short form of Video Blogging sometimes also called vidblogging. Vlogging is a form of blogging for which the medium is video.

As CNN once published that with the proliferation of devices like the video iPod, the vlog boom is on. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/05/01/8375939/) Vlogging saw a strong increase in popularity beginning in 2005. More and more people prefer using vlogging to express their ideas and show their life. It totally different and more challenging and attractive than blog and podcasting, for audience can have direct visual impact instead of the simple long article or audio works.An increasing number of vloggers enjoy and share their video on the website such as Yahoo, Youtube and also their own vlogging. That is why these kind of webs are such extremely popular in resent years.

Now, let’s get to know vlogging and the content of vlogging in other people’s eyes . http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/07/68171

Also, enjoy the latest vlogging here. http://www.vlogblog.com/

Although I am still a fresh new blogger, I hope some day I can share my information and happy life with you by videos and become a vlogger. Next time, I will find out how to make a vlogging and share it with you.