Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] inmaculada maiz, carlos castaño & gorka j. palazio www.eduvlog.org

Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] Web 2.0 is the revolution of web services and from now on the king is the content. But we'll have a lot of content in the future. As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that in the web content era microcontents will be the key in the field of users' consumption habits Table of contents 1.- The 'Long Tail' and the its implications in the learning sphere 2.- Teachers and students as providers and cosumers of learning audiovisual content 3.- We need useful cluster-like platforms to contain the huge amount of content is coming up 4.- Eduvlogs with microcontents and Multilingual Learning Video Systems (MLVS) www.eduvlog.org

Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] Web services' revolution creates more and more users (educators, students and learning communities) with a different role comparing with the traditional way to teach and learn. Learning communities and new roles need easy to use web services and tech invisible platforms for getting all the content and interaction users need in the learning process. Blogs/vlogs and learning video platforms, as Blogger and YouTube have shown us, are the tools people need to implement real LifeLong Learning processes. Year by year the audiences are smaller but individual media are more and more every day. 80 millions of blogs and millions of channels in social TV and video platforms are actually with us in the new digital arena. Content and containers o containing systems are the best tools for giving teachers and students the role they need in the Long Tail Age. The user is the remixer, the producer and/or the consumer of the learning content. Learning in community is a must now. Table of contents 1.- The 'Long Tail' and the its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org

Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] More DSL and cable conections all around Europe, more and more posibilities to implement learning with powerful users who really consume and produce learning content. The most users put learning content on the Internet via Web 2.0 services, the less time we have to create learning systems so we can compete with North American platforms. Time is not in our favor concerning European web technology. We need multilingual powerful and easy-to-use platforms for European citizens. Otherwise, we shall be out of order in the tech sphere. Table of contents 1.- The 'Long Tail' and the its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org

Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] Google, the famous Linux-based firm, has shown us that audiovisual tools, repositories and blog systems are essential for web content. All the adquisitions of Google last months have been done with one idea and question taken into account: which are the best platforms in the Long Tail Era? Every day a lot of teachers publish something new in the Education sphere. If we take it and add metadata to it, the remix will be done and other colleagues will be able to use it in different contexts. The effective way for LifeLong Learning: vlog and video repository with good content. Table of contents 1.- The 'Long Tail' and the its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org

Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] Teachers and professionals need learning communities for LifeLong Learning. The best practices can be seen in those learning models. Improving tools for learning communities is essential because teachers, proffesionals and students are taken new roles in the Third Level here in Europe. The student is the center of the learning process and the teacher appears now like a guide for doing learning tasks, for bookmarking, for showing emerging models in their subjects. All of us are content providers now. No matter what we teach, our new goals based on the students' work. We and they, they and other people not involved in the class are relevant from now on. There are more than two elements in learning processes: all people can say something relevant now because we are in learning nets now. Internet converts us in providers and consumers of learning materials. Table of contents 2.- Teachers and students as providers and cosumers of learning audiovisual content www.eduvlog.org