Rise of the mobile video blog

Video blogging is a form of blogging for which the medium is video. Entries are made regularly and often combine video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. But, it is still emphasize on the video rather than text or pictures.

The tools to create video blogs are becoming more common, less expensive, and better known to students. Cell phones equipped with cameras, digital cameras that can record short video sequences, or inexpensive video cameras equipped with microphones make it easy to acquire the raw material of a videoblog.

Video blogging offers a richer Web experience than text blogging as it can combines movies, sound, still images, and text, increasing the information to share with visitors. Many video bloggers believe that video allows more natural expression than writting.

Video blogs represent a new, relatively untested instructional technology tool. Faculty and students are beginning to include videoblogs in collaborative class and research activities, and some academic disciplines see videoblogs as a natural fit for their needs.

Video blogging is an extension of the self-publishing phenomenon exemplified by blogging. Video blogging has the potential to expand communication options and individual expression with personal video posts. Video blogging may also gain significance because of the media literacy of today’s students. Their facility with complex media has already influenced many classroom projectsand informal activities, such as digital stories and reporting.

Because video blogs are new, it is unclear what impact storing, cataloging, and retrieving them will have on ISPs,accessed simultaneously by thousands of users, could overwhelm servers.

Video blogs can also be used for personal expression and reflection.As a result, video blogs are being incorporated into e-portfolios and presentations. The use of video blogs for digital storytelling may also be one way to encourage strong student participation in e-portfolio projects.

Here is an example of a video blog that I have found in blogspot.

Source : http://ldvb.blogspot.com/2008/10/flying-planes-example.html

This post is including a video and texts to show what the author want to discuss about. It is believe that combine the video and texts is more effective to convey the messages of the users.

Reference Lists:

1. Educause, 2005, 7 things you should know about VideoBlogging, www.educase.edu/eli/
   
2. Simmons, D 2008, Rise of the mobile video blog, BBC Click Online, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7392594.stm


3. Wikipedia, N.D., Video blogging, viewed on 16 June 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/