Tag Archives: video

Screen Videos LibGuide

Over the past few months, we have been gathering information and advice from many people and resources around Penn on creating screen videos for educational use. We recently published a new LibGuide that presents an overview of screen videos and … Continue reading

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Cast Your Vote in the Mashup Contest!

This year’s Mashup Contest entries are in! Now it’s your turn to vote for your favorite video to help decide the popular choice award. Voting is open to everyone (Penn-affiliated or otherwise), so tell your friends, your parents, your profs, your … Continue reading

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Engaging Students Symposium – what fun!

Our Engaging Students Through Technology symposium last Friday included several exciting moments! About 75 people from 11 schools at Penn came together for the symposium. Carton Rogers started the morning by urging us to keep pace with new technologies in order … Continue reading

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Announcing our iPad Program Report

We’re glad to announce our program report on the iPads in the Classroom pilot and welcome your comments. Please do share the report widely. We began our pilot at Gadget Day in August 2011and over the past year, we have explored … Continue reading

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Creating a Vacation Video with iMovie

Welcome back to campus! Hopefully you all had a great summer and you got lots of great photos and video footage of your vacation. Now it’s time to put it all together into a video you can share with your … Continue reading

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Video Journalism Shooting Techniques

Lynda.com has a new online course on techniques for video journalism.  This is a great course for anyone getting into shooting their own video. Instructor Jeff Sengstack presents practical tips on shooting video with shots and angles that support the … Continue reading

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M’Aidez – A Stop-Motion short by Jesse Turnbull

A big congratulations to our own Jesse Turnbull, who recently finished this short stop-motion piece after months of work (and too many hours to count, he says).  It is best viewed in HD if your computer can handle it. Also, … Continue reading

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2012 Seltzer Family Digital Media Award Winners!

We congratulate the five students who have won 2012 Seltzer Family Digital Media Awards! Thanks to the generosity of Jeff Seltzer W’78 and his wife Annie, the Penn Libraries is proud to offer these digital media project awards. Each award … Continue reading

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iPhone Tripod Using 2 Binder Clips

Someone came up with this great (and fabulously inexpensive) way to create a tripod in order to support an iPhone or similar device to shoot video or photographs.  See the setup procedure at http://imgur.com/a/vqKvH The idea is to use 2 … Continue reading

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Looking for Filmmakers

Lab user and videographer Andrea Okorley is creating a new media production collective focusing on short documentary projects and filming big name music artists.  She’s looking for dedicated editors, photographers, DSLR-based cinematographers, producers, and people who can handle outreach and … Continue reading

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