[kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

Incredible! This is really great. Are your clips 'open source'  ;-)  
i.e. free?

Do you have them online so that we can take a peek?

Brian

On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Gakiria wrote:

> 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