Interesting conversation here, my company Multiple Choices has built a storycollection and sharing portal that's mashed up with Google Maps, this Users can submit SMS content (we have an SMS application integrated to pull content into the portal), audio clips (this is done via a desktop application which can be downloaded and installed both Linux and Windows version available), all the stories are populated onto a google maps. RSS feeds are available for content syndication, user profile creation can be added if needed. Integrating the pictures module from the flip Cameras should not be hard. If anyone is interested I can be reached on [email protected]. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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1. Re: Creating edutainment clips with Flip (Kai Wulff) 2. Re: Creating edutainment clips with Flip (Brian Munyao Longwe) 3. Re: Creating edutainment clips with Flip (Brian Munyao Longwe) 4. Re: Creating edutainment clips with Flip (Joseph Manthi)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:19:35 +0300 From: "Kai Wulff" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip To: "Gakiria" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gakiria" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 15:56 Subject: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip
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 <[email protected]> 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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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:46:59 +0300 From: Brian Munyao Longwe <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip To: "Kai Wulff" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gakiria" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 15:56 Subject: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip
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 <[email protected]> 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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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:48:44 +0300 From: Brian Munyao Longwe <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip To: Gakiria <[email protected]> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
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 <[email protected]> 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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Message: 4 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:26:10 -0400 From: "Joseph Manthi" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip To: "Brian Munyao Longwe" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Brian I would encourage you to visit the following site to see Flip capabilities:
Joe
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <[email protected]> wrote:
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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gakiria" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 15:56 Subject: [kictanet] Creating edutainment clips with Flip
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 <[email protected]> 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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