One can also look at Machinima.com and the Machinima FAQ.

For me the above video is an excellent example of Machinima. There are a number of filmmaking techniques visible in this music video and for someone familiar with Warcraft it shows a tremendous amount of understanding of the game world.

Warcraft has over 8 million players and a large number of those players are sitting in our college classrooms. Some of those players are even in film studies courses. In the past we might have asked these students to create a short film by developing and filming a script or adapting an existing scene. Why not move the filming into one of these game worlds? Why not combine something we know students love with something we want them to love and understand? I hope to help some of our faculty to develop projects in this direction which will give some validity to the amount of time I’ve spent playing, at that point it will count as research :-)

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I love the Mob movies these are based on and think it is a wonderful twist on such a classic feel good childhood memory. It would be interesting to find a way to do something like this in a film studies class.

Sometime in the near future I’ll post about Web time and the Web Science.

(gv data=”url”)(/gv) with [] instead of ()? I think it is but you need the full path to the video. How do we get that? No, you just need the URL in the src of the Embeded HTML code for the video you want to include. Then you get this

You will not be able to download the video. To download the video you need to click the Download link (on Google’s site) for the video and then you can play it in the Google Video Player. You’ll have to download the player onto your computer. Then you do not need to rely on the network to watch the video.

• Pod Safe Audio
  
• GoingWare (not explicitly CC)
• Common Content
• Magnatune
• Comfort Stand (not explicitly CC)
• CCMixter
• Public Domain 4 U (not explicitly CC)
• Oddio Overplay (not explicitly CC)

Also love “White and Nerdy” probably because I never figured out what “Ridin’ Dirty” means.

• Freeplay Music
• Garageband.com

which provide a wide array of music that is for the most part free to be used in the types of projects students produce.

ProfCast allows one to capture the slides (it supports Keynote and PowerPoint) and audio of a presentation and keeps them in sync. To use the application requires OS X 10.4 and either presentation application. The only difference for the presenter is to start their presentation and then start ProfCast. When they are ready to present they press the Record button on ProfCast and the presentation starts and progresses like normal. At the end of the presentation ProfCast comes up and asks you to Publish the presentation as a Podcast. We canceled that and saved the session as an enhanced Podcast. This created an m4b file which was uploaded to the server.

If you view the video, you’ll notice the default size is a little small. Visitors can download the file and open it in QuickTime Player and choose to view it at Double size for a clearer picture. It is a little unclear as to what purpose we might use ProfCast in the classroom, but we will probably experiment with it for the remaining Faculty at Large events.

I’m still a little unclear on how the service works. I am also unclear on the terms. However, I have contacted Apple and had a conversation with our internal representative about our eligibility. He felt that we would definitely qualify and we are arranging a meeting with our external Apple rep to learn more about the service and explore the possibility of enrolling. Keep your eyes open.