Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kimberly Brown - Winter Olympics Global Project
Kimberly Brown is a Vice Principal and Learning Resource Teacher in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2010 she organized a global project called 2010 Vancouver Olympics Collaborative Project. She set up a Wiki and using her class blog...
friEdTech
Why Chromebooks (not iPads) for Education?
Chromebooks are the best choice for a Project Based Environment. See why in this video.
Science360
Trading Textbooks For Twitter
What are the benefits of social networks? Boston College Professor Jerry Kane has received an National Science Foundation career award to study the use of social media technology in the classroom and in business. In the classroom, he has...
Curated Video
Wikipedia will switch off in protest over challenge to web freedoms
San Francisco, California
1. Wide of Wikipedia office
2. Mid of Wikipedia worker seated at desk
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jay Walsh, Head of Communications, Wikimedia Foundation:
"It is detrimental to the free and open web. It is...
Curated Video
Anti-SOPA protest, Reddit on "blackout", reax from bill supporters
New York, New York - 18 January 2012 - New York
1. Protesters gathered in front of New York Senator Charles Schumer's offices in Manhattan
2. Wide of protesters gathered
3. Wide of protester Josephine Dorado holding sign reading...
Curated Video
FIRST "WIKIPEDIA TOWN" IN WORLD
Monmouth has become the first place in the world to be recognised as a "Wikipedia town", giving tourists and locals alike quick and easy access to information.
Special barcodes, called QR codes, are mounted on the sides of buildings, to...
Curated Video
Google chairman and delegation in NKorea capital, SKorea reaction
Pyongyang, North Korea
1. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google (left) and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (right) visiting North Korea's Kim Il Sung University
2. Various of group visiting university's computer lab...
Curated Video
Pro-WikiLeaks rally in Madrid
1. Mid of Wikileaks protest outside UK Consulate, one protester holds placard that reads: (English) "9/11 Truth now"
2. Protesters wearing masks and carrying posters reading: (English) "Free Assange"
3. Close of poster reading: (English)...
Curated Video
TALKING POINT New website helps solve doubts for Spanish speakers
1. Wide of Casa de America museum
2. Various of presentation of the new Spanish Wikipedia-style website
3. Mid of performing artist bowing who is part of presentation of the new website
4. Various of Spanish Wikipedia-style website...
Curated Video
Iraqi int min, Baghdad residents reax to leak of US military documents
1. Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al Bolani leaving news conference with security
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jawad al Bolani, Iraqi Interior Minister:
"Any practice of human rights violations, under any pretext or label or from any rank, is...
Common Craft
Common Craft: Wikis in Plain English
The people at Common Craft Video present this informative video about how to use a wiki as an efficient and effective way for multiple people to communicate on-line. (2 min, 57 sec)
Other
It Conversations: Social Software
This podcast features a panel discussion from Accelerating Change 2004 on Weblogs, Wikis and Digital Democracy with Lada Adamic (HP Labs), Peter Kaminski (SocialText) and Zack Rosen (CivicSpace).
Common Craft
Common Craft: Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an amazing resource, but it's not always clear what helps to ensure that the articles are factual and high quality. This video discusses wiki technology and the policies that make Wikipedia work.
Common Craft
Common Craft: Wikis
This video introduces a "wiki" website as a resource for helping a group of campers organize and coordinate information for a camping trip.