Online Video Editing and Sharing Application: Pixorial
I found an interesting video editing and sharing application called Pixorial. Although I was looking for educational uses, when I came across this one, I was excited for personal reasons. Using this application, you can not only edit movie files that you have uploaded, you can send in all sorts of old movie files and they will digitalize them FOR you and put them on your site for 60 days for free. Yes, I had personally been looking for something like this for the old 8 mm film that my family had started taking of our family for about 47 years! I have about 40 small reels in addition to the more recent videotapes. What fun I could have editing and making DVDs for my family!!
But what educational uses can we make of this application? Well, that’s kind of exciting, too. Just a couple of uses that I thought of as an art educator were video of critiques. A ceramics piece is 3-dimensional, so a flat photo never really does it justice, but with video, the piece could be shown, handled and looked at from all angles. A critique in one class could be done, then done in each ceramics class on the same piece. Those videos could then be uploaded to the pixorial account and, even better, shared. The classes could collaborate on the editing of the video! Or each class can edit its own from the same footage.
Many versions of this could be done. Students could create videos of how to achieve special glaze effects. A student could create a special journal entry using pixorial and share it as part of a portfolio. And these are just ideas of how it could be used in the ceramics courseroom, by students.
As a teacher, I would love to do the more traditional how-to videos on basic techniques. Ahhhh, the time it would save. As the video played, I could walk around the room working individually with students, stopping and starting as necessary. Students who were absent that day could watch the video on a make-up day or after school. Or the videos could be shared on my teaching site!
This is exciting, too, because no software is required and it is VERY simple to use.
Needless to say, I signed up immediately and sent off for an envelope to ship all of my film there in! Soon, my class and I will be stars!
Permission to use the above photograph given via Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26474431@N00/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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