video tool

[anartam]

An interesting video tool: http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/our_services/vital/introduction_to_vital.html



Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a Web-based
video analysis and communication system created by the Columbia Center
for New Media Teaching and Learning and Professor Herbert Ginsburg of
Teachers College, Columbia University.

VITAL comprises tools for video editing and annotation and for the
creation of multimedia reports, embedded in the context of an course
syllabus with topics, videos, and activities, all housed within an
online community space.

Students who use VITAL learn to observe closely, interpret, and
develop arguments using cited video content as evidence. The VITAL
environment affords a number of benefits:

the persistent accessibility of video illustrating key concepts, which
students can view as often as they wish;
a personal workspace enabling students to identify and isolate
material, to pinpoint precise moments in the videos and annotate those
moments as well as save them in a private online workspace; and
analytic exercises in which students work with their video edits,
comments and course readings to construct multimedia essays in which
they support their theories and arguments with their research in the
video library.
Beyond Columbia University and its affiliates, VITAL is being piloted
at the Hunter College School of Education (CUNY), the Borough of
Manhattan Community College (CUNY), Georgia State University, Howard
University, Rutgers-Newark, Vanderbilt University, and the University
of San Diego

Cordially,
Ana Rosa.