Subscribing to other’s bookmarks is truly at the core of my research team belief. Alec found this gem (Alec, let’s trace this back, how did you find it?) called riffly. Okay I don’t know if it’s a gem yet but sounds like a good idea. A commenting tool that allows you to add video to comments. I recall some commenting tools that allowed for audio responses but hadn’t seen video. I’ve played briefly with seesmic and many seem to think that video adds another dimension to community building. I agree. Besides don’t you think that in the future, video and audio responses and interaction will replace text? Certainly text has some advantages in this context as it allows you to take your time in crafting responses. But for “quick in and quick out” responses, this might work. Anyway, hook up your webcam and give it go or leave a text comment proclaiming your disdain for all this new media stuff.
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Hey Dean,
Thanks for the pointer to this tool. I could not get it to record the video at first, quit my browser and tried again and it worked, except it dropped some of my audio. Thanks again, and thanks for the comment on Nando’s picture…
Tim
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Second try…. First time I forgot to hit the save button.
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Seems easy enough to use…..
Definitely from the point of view of connecting – video provides more ability than text. However if you compared a page of written text with the same text spoken – it takes longer for you to take in the information from the spoken text because you can scan read with text.
Besides haven’t done my hair – put on my make up or cleaned the room. So there is no way this woman is turning on her web cam!
And whenever I do a voice thread it takes me ten times longer than writing it because I just want it to be perfect!
I believe your response should be spoil sport! ROFL
Sue,
I wonder if people had difficulty with the telephone when it was first introduced? Along with the cost, were there similar issues we now face with talking heads? It’s certainly challenging for me. Even leaving a message on a answering machine is a chore for many. I’m thinking that there is a combination of choosing the correct format and being comfortable with a a variety of formats. I wonder if many miscommunications I’ve seen on blog posts could have been cleared up had they used video.
I think many hide behind text when they want to engage in confrontation…..just me rambling a bit here.
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As I say in the 45 second comment, I’d rather have auto-transcription of voice-recognized audio. Who wants to have to watch a whole video comment to discover it wasn’t worth seeing?
Or at least give us the fast-forward option.
My, how info-glut accelerates us.
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Interesting thoughts, Dean.
PS hate talking on phones LOL. I think the greatest aspect of the Riffly plugin is people can choose their method of comment based on their personal preferences. Now that would be really cool to use with students.
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Shame it doesn’t feed the video through in my co.mment RSS feed
Dean, follow you on Twitter. I’m thinking that the spontaneous ‘look at my classroom’ is actually a valuable tool when discussing learning environments. Imagine new teachers sharing a 30 sec look around their room and everyone stealing new environment ideas from other veteran teachers. I’ve mentored new teachers via web before and video would have been a great asset since words don’t always convey the meaning one wishes to share.
Thanks for sharing!
I think the value could be like Howard says, in the show and tell aspect of things. Using something like CamTwist to comment using images, or your desktop with narration could be helpful in certain situations. If they increase the resolution and size of the recorded video to make it useful with something like Camtwist that would be nice.
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Great contribution Tim.
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Hey Dean, this sounds really cool. However.. I’m kinda shy to check it out right now. I don’t mind typing responses, but this program sounds like it would be a lot easier to use instead of always typing. I kinda agreed with Sue about being shy because I do not usually leave messages on answering machines, and sometimes have a hard time talking on the phone as well. I think I will probably have my script written out for me before I post any video comments. So while this is a neat idea, it may be double the work for me, and others to use.
Using video definitely helps build a connection between people. As a teacher at a distance learning (distributed learning) school, I could see Riffly being useful. There are many of my students that I see only rarely. For them being able to see and hear me might make me more approachable; more apart of their learning.
I agree with Clay and Sue, though, that I still want text–so much easier for the reader to skim through or really drink in deeply
I dont have a webcam, but if I did I would try leaving a video comment. I’m very interested in this type of commenting. Like Claire mentioned, this could build better connections between peope using this. I wonder if people’s comments would be different if they were in video and not in text? The idea of text allows for some anonymity. People can use aliases and not feel so attached to what they’ve written. However, if your face is attached to your comments and views, it might make you think twice about what you’re saying. People who use their real names and comfortable with stating their views might not see this as a problem, but the ones who are still a little shy might not be so keen to this. Either way, I’d like to learn more about it.
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I’m trying to get this to work on Expression Engine and I was wondering if the videos save to Riffly’s site, or do they save to your own server? I followed the source of the thumbnail previews and those are being saved to riffly’s site. Just curious as I’m having a hard time understanding how this thing all comes together. Wish they made it for ExpressionEngine too! Thanks.
Is Riffly website dead?? I don't get reply email from Riffly. I need a help because why I have double "add webcam comment" and double "add audio-only comment? Please send me an email. Thanks.