Brian<br>I would encourage you to visit the following site to see Flip capabilities:<br><br><a href="http://www.theflip.com/">http://www.theflip.com/</a><br><br>Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <<a href="mailto:brian@caret.net">brian@caret.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Good gesture Kai. Would that be a portal that is freely accessible<br>
via the Butterfly network? i.e. anyone within a WiFi zone can click<br>
and upload?<br>
<br>
That would really be a huge benefit.<br>
<br>
We're thinking right now about how to scalably test this out, talking<br>
to a few friends to see if we can get hold of several of these gizmos<br>
- then let's see what happens<br>
<br>
I would love to see some primary school kids content, high school<br>
kids content, university kids content, jua-kali content, entrepreneur<br>
content etc.....<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
<br>
<br>
On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Kai Wulff wrote:<br>
<br>
> I am sure we could offer a portal on Butterfly so all people can<br>
> upload all<br>
> the clips to share and promote? Who has ideas?<br>
><br>
> Kai<br>
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> Subject: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip<br>
><br>
><br>
>> Dear Brian,<br>
>><br>
>> I know the Wow feeling. i have used the Flip Camera since November<br>
>> 2007 and its amazing how hardy and useful it is.We are now using<br>
>> it to<br>
>> create small educational clips for integration into e-learning<br>
>> courses. Using open source tools, we are able to further reduce the<br>
>> size of the clips (including digital images), ensuring that such<br>
>> courses remain bandwidth shy...<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks to technology, it becomes ever easier to create local,<br>
>> educationally relevant content without the need for expensive<br>
>> equipment and advanced technical know how.<br>
>><br>
>> Gakiria<br>
>> Kenya e-Learning Center<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 7/7/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <<a href="mailto:brian@caret.net">brian@caret.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Flipping over Flip<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/07/flipping-over-flip.html" target="_blank">http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/07/flipping-over-flip.html</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Yesterday I came across the most amazing piece of technology that I<br>
>>> have seen in recent days.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Gregg Zachary was just back in Nairobi enroute to his home in the<br>
>>> USA<br>
>>> and I managed to catch him for a couple of hours of talk. During<br>
>>> this<br>
>>> he showed me some videos he had taken in Zambia and Uganda and said<br>
>>> that he had used his "Flip camera". I was like, "what? Flip?" and he<br>
>>> said "I'll show you."<br>
>>><br>
>>> When I saw the device I almost fell over. Barely the size of a<br>
>>> cigarette pack, this modern day wonder allows the recording of up to<br>
>>> 1 hour of video, stores in in .avi format (YouTube Ready!) on an<br>
>>> internal solid state (Flash) disk and uses simple, everyday AA<br>
>>> batteries. Wow! The most amazing part of all was the price. Gregg<br>
>>> bought his off-the-shelf in the USA before coming out on this trip<br>
>>> for $125 (Kshs. 8,000).<br>
>>><br>
>>> This amazing little piece of technology has a built-in USB-flash<br>
>>> dongle, which allows you to hook it up to your computer - and the<br>
>>> software for transferring, editing and managing video is right on<br>
>>> the<br>
>>> stick! Wacha nikuambie!!!! I believe that this gadget and others<br>
>>> like<br>
>>> it is probably going to have a similar impact on the videocam<br>
>>> industry as cellphones had in the telecoms industry.<br>
>>><br>
>>> According to Business Week and the New York Times Pure Digital, the<br>
>>> startup company behind the Flip cam was able to achieve 20% market<br>
>>> share in the US videocam industry within less than 1 year.<br>
>>><br>
>>> My head has been spinning with ideas on how this kind of device can<br>
>>> contribute towards the development of local, African content.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Boy o boy am I excited. I want to try and put several of these into<br>
>>> the hands of people all over Kenya and see what happens....<br>
>>><br>
>>> [Brian blogs at <a href="http://mashilingi.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://mashilingi.blogspot.com</a> and http://<br>
>>> <a href="http://zinjlog.blogspot.com" target="_blank">zinjlog.blogspot.com</a>]<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Gakiria Andrew<br>
>> Coordinator<br>
>> Kenya eLearning Centre<br>
>> Nairobi, KENYA<br>
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