I received an exciting e-mail in the morning from the OER
Forum announcing that the amount of Creative Commons (CC BY) licensed videos on
YouTube has grown to 4 million. That’s right FOUR MILLION! You can read more
about the post by Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons at http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/07/heres-your-invite-to-reuse-and-remix-4.html?m=1
Right… now that we
have 4 million videos to remix into countless other derivations, how do we go
about doing it?
The following
section extracted from the Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) publication The
Re-use and Adaptation of Open Educational Resources (OER): An Exploration of
Technologies Available (http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=411)
might be a good place to start.
YouTube Video Editor
Since its inception
in 2005, YouTube (www.youtube.com) has transformed how content is delivered
via the web through the introduction of a cloud based service which offers free
hosting space to host short video clips. As it stands today, YouTube has grown
into a global phenomenon which hosts millions of amateur as well as
professionally developed video clips documenting a large array of subject
matter from various domains such as education, science, technology, travel and
variety. Recently YouTube has provided users with the option of sharing their
video material openly under the CreativeCommons (see section 3) attribution
license enabling the repurposing and remixing of the video material to create
new video material. To facilitate the remixing and repurposing process, a new
online video editor has been introduced which allows users to combine multiple
videos they’ve uploaded to create a new longer video, trim their uploads to
custom lengths, add a soundtrack from the library of approved tracks and customise
clips with special tools and effects.
More details on
YouTube Video Editor can be found at http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183851 and http://www.youtube.com/editor
“Legally remixing YouTube
videos for teaching and learning” is an adaptation of "YouTube Video Editor"
(http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=411)
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