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What is it? - The MovieClassroom is an online movie editor that lets you create and/or adapt movies from a growing database of video and images. You assemble them into a movie and add your narration.

Who can use it? - Anyone. It's aimed at students but the MovieClassroom is free to use (as long as you cite us) and abide by the Creative Commons by-nc-sa License.

• Note: The video and images are all available if you would like to use other software to make your movies. The MovieClassroom just makes it easier for anyone to slap together a movie from a (relatively) unrestricted source.

Why are we doing this - An explanation.

• Another explanation based on our presentation at the SERC New Tools workshop. - The MovieClassroom

Want to help? - We are seeking volunteer programmers (PHP and MySQL) and people interested in testing the system. Contact User:lurbano.

Login Version 1.0

• This version works very well but has a few idiosyncrasies (for example, if the narration is longer than its assigned clip the words cut off.)

Login Version 2.0

• A much better movie editor with sounder database management system, but still has a few minor bugs.

• Extra Credit Assignment login here

The MovieClassroom Project

The MovieClassroom permits the creation of captioned movies (and audio narrations) entirely through your standard internet browser.

Featured Movies

Planetary Atmospheres by S. Yarman (2007) Download movie

Created by Stephen Yarman (a student using Version 2). This movie describes the atmospheres of the planets using images from NASA.

The Coolest Geography Video of All Time (on Clouds) by Cole and Zugic (2005)

This movie was created in Fall 2005 by Cole and Zugic. It describes cloud types. (It uses Version 1, so a couple words in the narration are cut off).

By Popular Demand

Music and Music Videos

Pre-MovieClassroom projects that have a lively beat and are informative too. These were created using Adobe Premiere. MovieClassroom clips can be downloaded and used for this type of project if credit is given and the use is non-commercial (see the terms of use).

• Heat Wave by More and Hatchett
  • Heat Wave Music Video Large (200Mb) - mov format
    • Medium sized version (140 Mb) - mov format
  • Heat Wave Music only - 1.1 Mb

• Phase change flow by Madison and Carr (the first)
  • Music only - 2.4 Mb
  • Movie - 98 Mb, mov format.

Using the MovieClassroom

• Log In Here: MovieClassroom v2.0
• Instructions - how to use
• Version 1
• Requirements - you need a relatively fast internet connection to view the video clips and final movie.

Extra-credit projects

• Instructions for the Extra Credit Assignment.

Current Classes

Old Classes

• Spring 2007: Extra Credit Assignment
• Fall 2006: Geog 1010 - Thursday Night Quizzes NEW VERSION

Contents 1 The MovieClassroom Project 1.1 Featured Movies 1.2 By Popular Demand 1.3 Music and Music Videos 2 Using the MovieClassroom 2.1 Extra-credit projects 3 Current Classes 4 Old Classes 5 Sample movies 5.1 Spring 2006 Extra-credit Movies 5.2 Previous movies 5.3 Music videos 6 Applications and Analysis 7 In Development 7.1 New/Proposed Clips 8 References 9 Links

Sample movies

Spring 2006 Extra-credit Movies

These movies illustrate a variety of approaches and styles.

Venus W's, Reasons 4 seasons talkshow by Crawford, Suell, Williams and Adams

Fronts by Davenport

Hurricanes by Deberry and Lane. See also the interview with Katrina refugee Lane.

Lucas' Movie on the formation of the solar system by Dickerson

The Weekly Weather Sports Cast (Coriolis) by Hanna and Vaughn

Understanding longitude and latitude by Minnehan

Previous movies

• Selected movies created with the MovieClassroom previous semesters.
  • Spring 2006 movies
  • Fall 2005 movies

• Previous extra-credit movies that were made prior to the MoiveClassroom.
  • These include the infamous rap "Phase Change Flow" and the music video "Heat Wave".

Music videos

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Applications and Analysis

The object of this and similar projects are to help students learn by creation of material that will assist others in learning material that might be interesting and useful. Why the MovieClassroom explains the logic behind the MovieClassroom project.

We are just beginning to explore the potential of the MovieClassroom in different educational environments. If you have an interest in adapting this software for your own application, let us know.

These pages discuss both the applications and meta-data regarding how well they worked. The Meta links are links that describe the effectiveness of particular applications.

Applications include:

• Showing instructor made movies in the classroom,
• Using student made movies in the classroom (works really well)
• Laboratory assignments (making movies in the computer lab)
• Extra-credit movie-making assignments.
• Quiz-type assignments (making movies instead of quizzes)

Link to Applications and Analysis

Hypothesis testing - current questions we are trying to solve regarding the application of movies in Geoscience Education.

In Development

• New video clips: Mississippi Embayment Model
• MovieClassroom v2.0: Allowing ratings and comments on movies.

New/Proposed Clips

• Planetary maps images and rotating globes.
  • A good source of public domain images created by Björn Jónsson can be found at http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/planetary_maps.html
  • more images at: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/spaceart/cylmaps.html (need to check with the author about permissions for use)
  • Index of maps on the web http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/spaceart/planetcylmaps.html

References

• Articles - peer reviewed articles
  • Introducing the MovieClassroom accepted by the Journal of Geoscience Education.
  • MovieClassroom in Geoscience 2 - Advocating the MovieClassroom as a user content driven repository for geoscience visualizations. (in prep.)

• Presentations - at academic meetings.
  • Urbano, L.D., and Urbano, D.L.C., 2007. Online video creation for the Geosciences using the MovieClassroom 2.0, GSA Fall 2007.
    • GSA Fall 2007 MovieClassroom Web 2.0
  • Urbano, L.D., and Bateman, J., 2007. Affective response to peer-produced movies, GSA Fall 2007.
    • GSA Fall 2007 Affective Domain
  • Urbano, L.D., and Urbano, D.L.C., 2006, Enabling student and instructor use of scientific visualizations with an online video editor.
    • GSA Fall 2006 MovieClassroom Presentation
  • Urbano, L., and Urbano, L.C., 2005, The MovieClassroom: An Internet Based Application for Students and Instructors to Create Captioned Animations, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED13E-1170.
    • AGU Fall 2005 Meeting:

• Proposals - Attempts to fund the project.
  • Successful
    • University of Memphis SI/ST - funded (2006)
      • University of Memphis SI/ST Final Report - Dec 2006.
  • In review
  • Unsuccessful
    • NSF CCLI 2006 - rejected (See the reviews).
    • NSF Geoscience Education 2005 - declined (See the reviews)
    • NSF 3
    • GeoEd-2007 - NSF geoscience education.
  • IN Progress
    • CCLI 2008

Our logo.

• Bibliography

Links

• Visualization software used to create movies.
  • 3d Geoscience models - Simple computer simulation models (created in the Python programming language) used to produce some video clips.
  • POV-Ray - Raytracing software for creating photorealistic, computer-generated images.

• Student projects
  • Student multimedia projects for the class on Weather and Climate.
  • Graduate student projects for the Introduction to Modeling class.

• Notes on Copyright (and infringement)
  • http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

• Sources for free images (for educational use at least)
  • Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection

• Peer sites
  • GeoMod - http://lurbano-5.memphis.edu/GeoMod/

• Bibliography

• The User's Guide for usage and configuration help.