ONLINE VIDEO CREATION FOR THE GEOSCIENCES USING THE MOVIECLASSROOM 2.0

2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Paper No. 213-8

Presentation Time: 3:15 PM-3:30 PM

ONLINE VIDEO CREATION FOR THE GEOSCIENCES USING THE MOVIECLASSROOM 2.0
URBANO, Lensyl, Earth Sciences, University of Memphis, 204 Johnson Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, lurbano@memphis.edu and URBANO, Lavin C., Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083 The MovieClassroom is a simple, open-source, online, digital video editor designed and documented at http://lurbano-5.memphis.edu/MovieClassroom/. Using a shared database of Geoscience themed images and video contributed under a non-commercial, Creative Commons license, users can create, download and share captioned digital video. The site and media license were designed ease the creation of digital movies by students or faculty, and provide a common workspace where movies can be evolutionarily improved and adapted for divergent audiences. With version 2.0 we have adapted the underlying database and website to enable user ratings of movies published to the site as well as their associated media (audio/video/images/captions) elements. These ratings are designed to aid movie production by providing users with peer-contributed meta-data regarding each element's cognitive (educational) and affective (entertainment) value. The upgraded site has been used successfully for extra-credit movie projects as well as a variety of quiz type online assignments of varying complexity associated with an introductory undergraduate class on Weather and Climate. Information on the ongoing development of applications for the MovieClassroom, as well as instructor and student assessments of their efficacy, are documented on the MovieClassroom website using the online collaborative software MediaWiki.
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Session No. 213 Geoscience Education III Colorado Convention Center: 601 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 579
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