[kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

Good gesture Kai. Would that be a portal that is freely accessible  
via the Butterfly network? i.e. anyone within a WiFi zone can click  
and upload?

That would really be a huge benefit.

We're thinking right now about how to scalably test this out, talking  
to a few friends to see if we can get hold of several of these gizmos  
- then let's see what happens

I would love to see some primary school kids content, high school  
kids content, university kids content, jua-kali content, entrepreneur  
content etc.....

Brian


On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Kai Wulff wrote:

> I am sure we could offer a portal on Butterfly so all people can  
> upload all
> the clips to share and promote? Who has ideas?
>
> Kai
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> Subject: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip
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>> Dear Brian,
>>
>> I know the Wow feeling. i have used the Flip Camera since November
>> 2007 and its amazing how hardy and useful it is.We are now using  
>> it to
>> create small educational clips for integration into e-learning
>> courses. Using open source tools, we are able to further reduce the
>> size of the clips (including digital images), ensuring that such
>> courses remain bandwidth shy...
>>
>> Thanks to technology, it becomes ever easier to create local,
>> educationally relevant content without the need for expensive
>> equipment and advanced technical know how.
>>
>> Gakiria
>> Kenya e-Learning Center
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/7/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <brian at caret.net> wrote:
>>> Flipping over Flip
>>>
>>> http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/07/flipping-over-flip.html
>>>
>>> Yesterday I came across the most amazing piece of technology that I
>>> have seen in recent days.
>>>
>>> Gregg Zachary was just back in Nairobi enroute to his home in the  
>>> USA
>>> and I managed to catch him for a couple of hours of talk. During  
>>> this
>>> he showed me some videos he had taken in Zambia and Uganda and said
>>> that he had used his "Flip camera". I was like, "what? Flip?" and he
>>> said "I'll show you."
>>>
>>> When I saw the device I almost fell over. Barely the size of a
>>> cigarette pack, this modern day wonder allows the recording of up to
>>> 1 hour of video, stores in in .avi format (YouTube Ready!) on an
>>> internal solid state (Flash) disk and uses simple, everyday AA
>>> batteries. Wow! The most amazing part of all was the price. Gregg
>>> bought his off-the-shelf in the USA before coming out on this trip
>>> for $125 (Kshs. 8,000).
>>>
>>> This amazing little piece of technology has a built-in USB-flash
>>> dongle, which allows you to hook it up to your computer - and the
>>> software for transferring, editing and managing video is right on  
>>> the
>>> stick! Wacha nikuambie!!!! I believe that this gadget and others  
>>> like
>>> it is probably going to have a similar impact on the videocam
>>> industry as cellphones had in the telecoms industry.
>>>
>>> According to Business Week and the New York Times Pure Digital, the
>>> startup company behind the Flip cam was able to achieve 20% market
>>> share in the US videocam industry within less than 1 year.
>>>
>>> My head has been spinning with ideas on how this kind of device can
>>> contribute towards the development of local, African content.
>>>
>>> Boy o boy am I excited. I want to try and put several of these into
>>> the hands of people all over Kenya and see what happens....
>>>
>>> [Brian blogs at http://mashilingi.blogspot.com and http://
>>> zinjlog.blogspot.com]
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Gakiria Andrew
>> Coordinator
>> Kenya eLearning Centre
>> Nairobi, KENYA
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