Archive for November 21st, 2011

WeVideo – collaborative cloud based video editing

| November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments 

WeVideo is a cloud-based video editing platform that allows you to create videos, online, enabling remote students to collaborate, with invited others, on projects, editing, adding titles, effects, animation, music, narration and more.

If you shoot videos with your mobile phone or camera and would love to professionally edit them in only a few clicks, then WeVideo is just what you need. WeVideo is accessible via the browser of smartphones, tablets and computers, so it can be used anywhere there is internet connectivity. Film in the field & others start editing back at school before your return.

The free option includes: 1 GB storage, 360p resolution, 15 export minutes per month, 5 invites per project and 390 licensed music titles.

Thoughts of an @ICTEvangelist

| November 21, 2011

Thank you to Mark Anderson (or @ictevangelist on Twitter) head of ICT, PGCE Mentor at Clevedon School, recently judged “Outstanding” by Ofsted, for sending us some thoughts on how he his applied some of the tools, and ideas, we shared at past conferences:

“This post goes back some way to include some thoughts from inspirations I’ve received over the past few years from two inspirational ICT speakers that I have seen and consequently worked with on various projects. Meeting these insightful characters marked the beginning of a journey for me which has led me to a place where I now am hopefully able to inspire and lead others in a similar way. I guess too that this post is a celebration and recognition of the work that Tim and Andy (and others) do tirelessly to promote the use of ICT in schools and the recognition that they deserve for their efforts. I know they’ve inspired me and I know through networking with many others via Twitter – they’ve inspired many others too…

This post will move forward and discuss the current state of affairs with the use of ICT in schools, the effectiveness of blogging and the power both ICT and blogging can have on engaging and inspiring students and teachers with the learning and teaching that takes place in schools all over the UK. Continue Reading