Audio

Audio

Audacity - a cross-platform, open sourcei tool for recording and editing audio.
(suggested version: 1.3.5 download )
Screencasts

• Installing Audacity Screenast
• Audacity Introduction Screencast

Support

• Documentation and Support
• Tutorials
• Audacity 101 (pdf, version 1.24)
• How to podcast Audacity Tutorial

Readings

• First, You Have to Hear It! ESL Oral Language Practice
• Analyzing Oral Skills in Voice E-Mail and Online Interviews
• Skype and Podcasting: Disruptive Technologies for Language Learning
• LLT's oral learning special issue

Listening Activities

• Manytings.org Listening
• CLA audio based listening exercises online
• Listen to English: E. L. Easton
• Language Activities: a) Listening & Speaking
• Arlyn Freed's ESL/EFL Listening Resources with reviews of web sites (audio and video)
• Interactive Audio-Picture English Lessons
• Adult Learning Activities - California Distance Learning Project
• British Council - Learn English: Songs and Lyrics

Podcasts

• Listen to English - Learn English
• ESL Business News
• Business English Pod and Video Vocab
• Guide to the TOEFL Test Podcast
• ESLPodcast
• English Through Stories
• The Bob and Rob Show Podcast
• ESL PodCards
• ESL Podcasts
• ITESLJ Podcast List
• Shambles ESL POdcast List
  

Graphics

Understanding Graphic File Formats

Irfanview - an free image viewer program that can be used to view, edit, and convert image files.

• EFL537 Screencast
• English Forums
• Sticksite Tutorial
• Indeavors Flash Tutorial

Gimp
GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs.

• Gimp Tutorials
• The GIMP Wikibook
• Official documentation
• Gimp Screencast from Mefeedia

Readings
Reading Authentic EFL Text Using Visualization and Advance Organizers in a Multimedia Learning Environment

Video

Video Hardware

Video File Formats

Video Production Tools (PC Based)

• Windows Movie Maker
  support - Microsoft help - Movie Maker Forums - UpdateXP Screencasts - MakeInternetTV screencasts
• iMovie
  Imovie Tutorial
• Pinnacle Studio
• Adobe Premiere
• Roxy Video

Online Video Sites

• Dotsub
• Teacher Tube
• JumpCut
• YouTube
  How to upload a video to YouTube (WebVideoZ one)
  YouTube Help Center
• Blip.tv

Live Streaming

• Ustream.tv
• Mogulus
• Yahoo Live
• BlogTV
• Justin.tv
• Livevideo.com
• Kyte.tv

Screencasting

• Jing Project - easy screencast publishing
• Camtasia - Media Recording
• Camstudio - free screencast software
• SnapZPro - Media Recording
• Wink
• Screencast-o-Matic

Mahable 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources

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Sample sites that use video

• Real English® Video Dictations Exercises
• English-Trailers.Com You can watch movie trailers and do exercises on them. Scripts available.
• thedailyenglishshow Produced and presented by Sarah - a New Zealander based in Japan. Scripts here.
• ESLpodTV - Videos, podcasts and listening and reading exercises.

Lists of other video sites & resources

• Iteslj Video
• CLA Video Listening Sites
• "Video Online" by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Mike Marzio
• Examples of use of video in ESL from EVO2008 Video session

Readings

• Tools and Trends in Self-Paced Language Instruction
• Digital Video Update: YouTube, Flash, High-Definition
• Playing the Videotext: A Media Literacy Perspective on Video-Mediated L2 Listening

Tips & Tricks

To embed a flash video file (.swf) in your blog or page, you can use this code (you will need to change the bold portions):

<embed
src="filename.swf"
width="300"
height="300"
allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true"
/>

To embed a .wmv file in your blog or html page, you can use this code (you will need to change the bold portions):

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="videofilename.wmv">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" src="videofilename.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="0"> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>