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Radar Chart visualizing Cost of Living in select US Cities
Source:Sperling’s
Use Getty Images’ free embed tool for culturally authentic imagery?
- Getty Images is trying a new approach for making some money of its widely pirated imagery online: a tool you can use to embed images from their database on your website
- Pros:
- Copyright permissible!
- Preserves through link to Getty Images full background metadata of image.
- Relatively sophisticated image database browsing tool – might be useful less for teachers directly, but for web quests that send students to learn by exploration.
- Cons:
- With the image embedder, you are enabling advertisements and user tracking on your page. Study the licensing agreements.
- Seems to me that Google Images’ scope and convenience will be impossible to beat.
Protected: LRC old media inventory for spring cleaning
The Films on Demand subscription of Atkins library
- Benefits:
- provides access to over ten thousand streaming videos.
- including world languages:
- Remaining Problems:
- 741 titles for World languages is not a lot (additional materials may be applicable to language learning, but I do not see the most commonly requested foreign language films used in the department which we are currently trying to rescue across the demise of VHS). Any particular silo of information is not comprehensive (given the power of the network effect, YouTube wins hands-down most if the times),
- any content is difficult to integrate into a language skill curriculum,
- any added interface restrictions may make it more difficult, not more stable,
- not unlike YouTube, files you may have used, even linked, can get removed.
- the website seems to be available only on campus – even if you are logged into your campus account (university VPN will likely help, and not, given that it has video throughput issues).
Google new maps’ photo tour slideshow viewer
<Grumble> If these internet companies invent anything else, I won’t get out much anymore.</Grumble> (I have always loved “travelling on a map” too much already
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This is not your grandparents’ photos feature in Google maps anymore. The new photo tour automatically (I must assume? Based on GIS data included in the photo, image recognition to cluster motifs?) intelligently tags the map includes highlights of well-known sights, and it seems to automatically group similar shots/motifs, providing the feel of an in-depth exploration, even presence. And the occasional grandparents in the foreground remind us, that this remains a crowd-sourced project…
Now how to plan a better intercultural map exploration class with this…
MS Windows Media Encoder, your free audio and video encoding utility
- Benefits
- Free
- Can cut and convert
- video
- Makes screencasts also.
- can capture video
- audio
- including pause removal.
- video
- can stream
- Limitation: Outputs only to MS media formats (WMA, WMV) (
- Download here. There is also a 64-bit version.
- Officially supported on
- Windows 2000 and XP. I use it on Vista and Windows 7 (both 64-bit) also (for audio; no guarantees).
- f I remember correctly, Windows Media Encoder has a built-in limit to support only up to 4 CPU cores, you may have to limit CPU usage if you run on more advanced hardware platforms).
- a bit of config:
- For good quality video and audio, put a prx file like this in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Components".
- Put a wme file like this anywhere and start by double clicking the file, then press green “Record” button.
Here are some direct links to live international TV
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(new & untested) ARD live stream, or (likely more useful)ARD Mediathek |
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You can probably tell from the language selection where this list is from 
: Many thanks, University of Minnesota Language Center, I only had to remove your scheduling information which we have no use for…
LoC says on DVDs: Excerpts, but no space-shifting
And: foreign language faculty seems now included.
“The most complicated exemption focuses on DVDs. Between now and 2015, it will be legal to rip a DVD “in order to make use of short portions of the motion pictures for the purpose of criticism or comment in the following instances: (i) in noncommercial videos; (ii) in documentary films; (iii) in nonfiction multimedia e-books offering film analysis; and (iv) for educational purposes in film studies or other courses requiring close analysis of film and media excerpts, by college and university faculty, college and university students, and kindergarten through twelfth grade educators.” A similar exemption applies for “online distribution services.”
The Librarian also allowed DVDs to be decrypted to facilitate disability access. Specifically, it’s now legal “to access the playhead and/or related time code information embedded in copies of such works and solely for the purpose of conducting research and development for the purpose of creating players capable of rendering visual representations of the audible portions of such works and/or audible representations or descriptions of the visual portions of such works to enable an individual who is blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing, and who has lawfully obtained a copy of such a work, to perceive the work.”
But the Librarian did not allow circumvention for space-shifting purposes. While public interest groups had argued that consumers should be allowed to rip a DVD in order to watch it on an iPad that lacks a built-in DVD drive, the Librarian concluded that no court has found that such “space shifting” is a fair use under copyright law.”
Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets | Ars Technica
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