{"id":2875,"date":"2010-08-13T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-08-13T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:40:15","slug":"mini-camcorders-now-available-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2010\/08\/13\/mini-camcorders-now-available-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini camcorders now available on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/KodakZi8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-352\" title=\"Kodak Zi8\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/KodakZi8.jpg\" alt=\"Pic of Kodak Zi8 mini camcorder\" width=\"361\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>Video can be used in many ways to support learning, not least through the use of automated video lecture capture which we&#8217;ve covered in many posts on this blog recently.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to produce something &#8216;quick and dirty&#8217;, for instance a short video introduction to a topic, or video feedback on assignments (which a number of colleagues have been trying out), we now have the ideal equipment for the purpose available on loan.<\/p>\n<p>The Kodak Zi8 is about the size of a mobile phone but creates very good quality video clips, especially when combined with the miniature tabletop tripod and external tie-clip microphone included in our kits. Clips can be very easily transferred across to your PC then uploaded to Learn.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to try one out, drop by the E-learning Office in the Library (next to the cafe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video can be used in many ways to support learning, not least through the use of automated video lecture capture which we&#8217;ve covered in many posts on this blog recently. If you&#8217;re looking to produce something &#8216;quick and dirty&#8217;, for instance a short video introduction to a topic, or video feedback on assignments (which a<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2010\/08\/13\/mini-camcorders-now-available-on-loan\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}