This document discusses using video microcontents and vlogs for online learning. It argues that as more educational content is created online by both teachers and students, platforms are needed to organize this content. Specifically, it advocates for creating multilingual learning video systems that allow educational videos and "video pills" to be easily shared and reused in different contexts. This will help support lifelong learning and networking among educational communities online.

1. 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

2. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] This a networking education project based on community learning on the Internet It is a Web 2.0 mashup with Open Standards, microcontents, metadated video pills, vlog format and folksonomy at its core www.eduvlog.org

3. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] We teach and learn in community Students and teachers produce video tutorials, video pills, audiovisual content which can be used in different contexts, in similar topics. Scorm objects aren't the key because scorm objects are not worldwide standards (just for US Army and friends...) www.eduvlog.org

4. 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 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

5. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] 1.- The 'Long Tail' and its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org Month by month more and more teachers are putting educational content on the Internet. The audiences of that content are not huge. The only thing that can be extremely large is the traffic that some web services will generate and are generating now. The Long Tail = More content producers, minor audiences and successful platforms acting as mediators between the teachers and the students . a lot of educational content producers few educational producers with large audiences

6. 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 that users need in the learning process. Blogs/vlogs and learning video platforms, like Blogger and YouTube, have shown us that there are 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. 120 millions of blogs and a lot of channels in social TV and video platforms are actually with us in the new digital arena. 120.000 new blogs every day, new Web 2.0 apps every day... a lot of content to keep track of, to remix, to process. Content and containers or Web 2.0 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. 1.- The 'Long Tail' and its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org

7. 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. Most of the users put learning content on the Internet via Web 2.0 services, and we have few time 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 educators. Otherwise, we shall be out of order in the tech sphere or using only American systems 1.- The 'Long Tail' and its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org

8. 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. That is a good goal in our opinion. The effective way for LifeLong Learning: vlog and video repository with good content. 1.- The 'Long Tail' and its implications in the learning sphere www.eduvlog.org

9. 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. Guidance is essential now. All of us are content providers now. No matter what we teach, our new goals are 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 doing work in learning nets. Internet converts us in providers and consumers of learning materials. 2.- Teachers and students as providers and cosumers of learning audiovisual content www.eduvlog.org

10. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] The real susccess of YouTube is based on the usability. YouTube and Google Video has shown us that publishing video is easy. I always says to my students that instead of producing your own video, you can remix video. It is posible to publish video without doing your own videos. The so called remix culture is with us and with tools like Remixer it is clear that it will long. Therefore, if we live in the remix culture we need cluster-based platforms to contain all the content that we'll create. Linux based systems for mediators will be the key for getting success from now on. It is very important to set up platforms for collecting media files (presentations, raw video, photo videos). Otherwise, our content will be in others' hands. 3.- We need useful cluster-like platforms to collect the huge amount of content is coming up www.eduvlog.org

11. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] We need platforms like Sclipo but more centered in eduvloggers' work. Sclipo is really good, but what we need is creating metadated video content in vlog format. Easy to use tech for every teacher who is actually not a guru in computering. It is important not to repeat the same story regarding video skill teaching. Shawn Wheeler tells us: Several years later, Movie Maker 2 from Microsoft emerged on the market. I was back into video editing like never before. However, I still had my same reservations with video. My colleagues in the district were clamoring for this technology and I wanted to help develop an army of Spielbergs and Coppolas. For several years, we facilitated workshops teaching teachers how to create movies using Movie Maker in their classroom. To be honest, a number of wonderful projects were created. Unfortunately, the process is time-consuming and video production began to slow. 3.- We need useful cluster-like platforms to contain the huge amount of content is coming up www.eduvlog.org

12. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] We speak about teachers working and getting help in networking systems like vlogs and social and educational repositories. We speak about multilingual nets for different educators and students. SclipoLive: SclipoLive is a powerful new app that offers our members two distinct advantages: 1. To teach personalized classes live (how-to videos are, in the end, not customizable one-fits-all micro-lessons). 2. To make good money (teachers may charge for a live class, whereas users would hardly pay to watch a video, except for tips here and there). Teachers can use their videos as self-advertising! What better way to convince somebody that you are great teacher then showing her how good you teach in a short video? We don't need to show anybody we are good teachers or not. We do things just to help ourselves and colleagues in classes and beyond. 4.- Eduvlogs with microcontents and Multilingual Learning Video Systems (MLVS) www.eduvlog.org

13. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] We, eduvloggers of Eduvlog-org, do vposts with microcontents because we are aware that it is a good system for helping us and students in the learning process. And we can re-use the same vposts in different contexts and subjects. We'd like to foster guidance and LifeLong Learning implementing a new way to educate in community with others, with a lot of metadata in video pills. We record and remix video pills for. Net speaks in local language and native teachers need their own language platforms to put educational content. That is the reason we need multilingual systems with LAMP technology for invisible delivering of context depending on the language the user has chosen in his or her browser. Table of contents 4.- Eduvlogs with microcontents and Multilingual Learning Video Systems (MLVS) www.eduvlog.org

14. Learning with video microcontents in vlog format [en] Bideo mikroedukinen bidezko ikaskuntza vlog formatuan [eu] The presenter of this Impress presentation hopes that this presentation will be an attractive present for you. Gorka Jakobe Palazio 'mcpálás' Full professor, ICT. GNU/Linux user University of the Basque Country Vlogs and repositories in the Web 2.0 Era. In the Web 3.0 Age we'll talk about content www.eduvlog.org