David Feighan, director of Libraries and Learning Resources at Bialik College, Hawthorn, Victoria, has been kind enough to do a guest post about BialikTV. BialikTV is a place where the college celebrates learning, reading, and literature.
BialikTV was created in response to the fact that content is becoming more varied, more immediate, and more multimedia. Students are still working with text, but increasingly they are also working with images, sound recordings and audio-visual content. As a result there is a change in how people find information, with YouTube now recognised as the second largest search engine after Google. As a library that thinks about how information creation, distribution and use is changing; we need to understand and be on top of these major trends. What is the role of the library in a post text multimedia world? How do we collect and integrate text and multimedia? What metadata do we use to facilitate access to multimedia content? How do we include the growing amount of multimedia citizen journalist content into our collections? How do we ensure we are using authoritative content? What will a school library collection look like in 5 or 10 years’ time?
BialikTV is also where we celebrate learning, reading and literature at Bialik College. As such it is a platform where we can host and celebrate the student’s work, for example the book trailers students create. To protect the children’s identity, and to prevent inappropriate comments, no children’s faces are shown, and the ability to comment has been removed from BialikTV.
Further reading:
· http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-search-engine-domination
· http://www.smartinsights.com/search-marketing-alerts/youtube-as-search-engine
· http://socialtimes.com/youtube-and-the-future-of-citizen-journalism_b15810
Well done to David and the Library staff at Bialik College for creating BialikTV and for using it in such a wonderful way.
We’ve been thinking about doing something similar to this. What program are you using and how is it being managed/updated? Thanks, Peita
Hi Peita, the videos were edited using Cyberlink PowerDirector v9 which costs about $100. See http://www.cyberlink.com. We then established a YouTube channel but we made sure we locked it right down. For example people can’t make comments. We also made sure we did not show faces of children unless we have parent’s consent.