13 July 2008. [senseionline] Digest Number 2685
Kwassui Women's College announces a worldwide video slideshow contest
reserved to students who are learning Japanese as a foreign language
in high school; original announcement at
http://www.kwassui.ac.jp/college/news_topics/news_82/news_82.html
For further inquiries, please email videocontest@kwassui.ac.jp
The purpose of this contest is to encourage high school Japanese
language teachers to enhance their classes with video production
projects. Kwassui has long been active in forming teachers of both
English and Japanese. The college is now experimenting with new
technologies and promoting their use in language teaching. It has
become evident to us that many language teachers would like to use
video production in their classes but are hindered by time constraints
and limited access to technology. The experience matured by our
English department has shown us that this kind of obstacles can be
overcome by letting students work on video slideshows rather than
moving image videos.
A video slideshow is a succession of still images, be they
photographs, drawings, charts, or computer-generated pictures,
accompanied by narration and/or music and recorded in video format. It
can be created with minimal equipment: a computer, a digital still
camera or camera phone, and a microphone. The editing can be done with
simple software such as Windows Movie Maker (free on all Windows XP
and Vista machines) or iMovie (free on all new Macs).
A site with extensive technical information on video slideshows,
including step-by-step tutorials can be found at
http://www.deepmoat.com/moodle/
Theme of the Contest: School Life
This theme should be interpreted as including topics such as school
clubs, school festivals, school friendships, etc. Entries may be
authored by a single student or by groups of up to four students. Only
one submission per student or group will be accepted.
Basic Requirements: All authors must be high school students. None of them must have lived
in Japan for more than a year. Teachers can advise students but cannot
be authors. All videos must be composed of still images accompanied by Japanese
narration. They must be suitable for all audiences. Opening and end
titles are required and must also be in Japanese (romaji is
permissible). Transitions, the Ken Burns effect, and other special
effects are permitted. On the videos, students' must be identified
only by their first names. Family names, addresses, and other
sensitive personal data must NOT be included. The script and all
images must be original and created by the entrants themselves. Music
is optional. If included, it must be legal and properly credited.
"Legal" music means a piece that is either out of copyright,
copyright friendly (such as Creative Commons licensed pieces from jamendo.com or
podsafeaudio.com), or composed and played by the students who make the
video.
Video format: wmv or mov. Videos submitted in formats other than wmv
or mov will not be considered. Those who are creating in other formats
are welcome to use online converters such as media-convert.com or
zamzar.com to get their piece into one of those two formats.
Length of entries: minimum 2 minutes 30 seconds; maximum 3 minutes 30
seconds. Files should not exceed 30 MB.
Deadline for submissions: 11:00 p.m., Japanese Time, on November 30,
2008. No entries can be accepted before 8:00 a.m., Japanese Time, on
October 1, 2008. To find out the corresponding time in your time zone,
you may wish to use the converter at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html.
How to submit: All videos must be submitted by teachers. To submit,
please use a free file delivery service such as YouSendIt.com. In the
"To" box, please type the following address: videocontest@kwassui.ac.jp
Do not send videos as email attachments.
Teachers will also need to send a separate confirmation email to videocontest@kwassui.ac.jp
containing the following information: teacher's name and contact email, school's name and address, title of the video, full name and grade of each student who authored the video.
[see full announcement for detailed judging criteria]
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