Would young students like to hang videos on a Labdoo Youtube Channel?

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eparpal's picture
Submitted by eparpal on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 19:59
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Hello,

I'm not a fun of youtube at all, but I just found out many younger kids do love that, am I right? I'm not an expert at all and I'm not much in contact with these age kids. My thoghts are thay if this is an activity and a channel they enjoy may be they could do their own videos explaining their labdoo story, or explaining labdoo tips and tricks to sanitize lapotps, or who knows. I also wandered if girls may be more atracted to participate if they could add this video-producing- comunication activity.
Another question, do you thing kids from schools receiving laptops could do that too?
Sorry I have many questions today...
Have a good weekend everybody!
Elena

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Rhein-Ruhr-Hub's picture
Submitted by Rhein-Ruhr-Hub on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 20:54

Hi Elena,

your ideas are right and great, but I see a lot of technical aspects, which would have to be solved by the school or the children.

You need technical equipment (camera and /or screen-recording software, video / audio tools),a fast computer (videos need a lot of data and CPU power) and a fast internet connection to upload the video files into web. And the children need practise and knowledge about video cutting, mixing audio files, codecs, rendering etc.

Of cause, it will be great to get videos, produced by children. BTW, all those tools, software etc., you need to produce videos, are coming with a cloned Labdoo-laptop, but not with a basic (L)Ubuntu installation. So most laptops from Switzerland, Austria and Germany are ready to produce videos, as you suggest.

Please let me know, where and how you will go ahead with such a video project. A follow-up of your plans will be interesting. If the Labdoo images for cloning should get more software tools due to your recommendation.

Some Labdoo videos concerning training, sanitizing, user introduction etc. were produced some time ago in English (at least kind of, my English is not the best) and German https://www.youtube.com/user/LabdooDACH and a collection of Labdoo user training videos here https://www.labdoo.org/de/content/new-video-tutorials-mate-lxde-software.... Thanks.

Canon (Germany) is already a sponsor of Labdoo (Germany) and we are in contact, if they want to donate cameras, so we can give them to school projects. But this is in a very early stage.

I like your project, so let me know, if you need any input or support. Have a great weekend,

Ralf
Labdoo Hub Rhein-Ruhr (Germany)

wendy's picture
Submitted by wendy on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 01:14

Hi Elena,

Thanks for the thought. Is this something similar to what you are thinking of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWYO-CxZDe8

It was done with two phones (one taking the video while the second phone recording the voice) at one of our high school workshop. However, there must be a good reason I didn't continue for a second video after this September 2013 video, right?:)

Students won't be able to come up the videos themselves. It's very time consuming, so I am not sure if many teachers have the bandwidth and technical knowledges to help students to do videos (Teachers need to have both computer and video knowledge) Plus, thanks to Ralf that he has most of the technical information covered with very high quality videos.

I also tried to have students shooting promotion videos for Labdoo as well because I know lots of kids are very good at it (It may be more doable than making technical videos:) Again, I came to realize that adult's supervision is very critical in coming up any production work. And lots of time, it's just more efficient to ask adult's help to get the job done:)

Two (or more) brains are better than one. We can definitely brainstorm together to make the idea work. And I know it will benefit students in a great deal if it works:)

Thanks,

Wendy

eparpal's picture
Submitted by eparpal on Mon, 03/06/2017 - 20:23

Dear Ralf and Wendy,

Thanks so much for your inputs, I didn't know we already had so many videos already available.
- about the kids skills and need of teachers support, I guess there are different ages and courses. For example, in my kids school, at the 2 last years before university, they specialize and they can choose technology, arts, science or social studies and at the end they must do a practical excercise on their own (with some supervision, but not much) where they must use different courses and skills, and I have seen some beatiful and quality videos done by those students. I guess it is not available to everybody, but still may be we could just open the possibility. Since this school is one of the sanitizing hubs I will ask them their opinion too.

Can more teachers or volunteers give us some feedback on that?

- about the destination schools I guess this can be very difficoult so we should just not insist on it, right? But still, let's leave it open, so if someone can do a home-video with the Labdoo-tools and two cell phones, why not?

Technically I don't know if that would require much development work, anybody knows?

- about the subject of the videos I would leave it open not only to manuals abut to stories or other subjects related to Labdoo that they would like to do. We could open "challenges", for instance: tell us " where do you do Labdoo?" (I do it on the sofa, on the train,...), or "what is a laptop useful for?" or " who is envolved in a donated laptop?" or " how can we spread Labdoo?"

What do you think? Any other thoughts?
thanks!!

wendy's picture
Submitted by wendy on Mon, 03/13/2017 - 16:04

Hi Elena,

It sounds very exciting promising! I believe the youtube video idea will work with the student group you described who receives technical training while attending school. And I can see it's a win-win project for both students and Labdoo.

There's a video from a podcast I used to subscribe and love so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZAMKuXJOcg&t=60s

I always wish I am capable of doing something like that to spread the Labdoo awareness. Therefore, in a way much smaller scale, I tried to come up a topic every week and pair up a younger student to draw and a older student to write a blog. Here's a not yet polished ebook of some blogs they previously wrote.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7MOney6dK_oY2xicTZJUGhkX2c

Hope my two cents help and wish you best of luck.

eparpal's picture
Submitted by eparpal on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 16:58

Thanks Frank, so you already have one! I saw your videos but didn't know about the channel. Do you think it can be attractive to volunteers at sanitation schools to participate? I am waiting for some feedback from one school and plan to ask others.
Cheers!

frankgeisler's picture
Submitted by frankgeisler on Wed, 03/15/2017 - 19:41

Hello together and yes, a participation is definitely possible! Maybe more a matter of language because our san workshops are all in German... :) Cheers, Frank

eparpal's picture
Submitted by eparpal on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 08:27

Thanks, I subscribed!
Do you think It would be a good idea to creat a global Labdoo Youtube Channel then and share there the videos or is it better to have them in the Labdoo platform?

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Submitted by jordi on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 12:18

Right I agree with Gregg.

I would suggest leveraging Youtube which is built for that and will do a much better work (scalability, collaboration, etc.)

What people think about the idea of creating a global Youtube channel? (so far we've had independent channels here and there)

frankgeisler's picture
Submitted by frankgeisler on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 13:05

Great with one channel - for language reasons I would create channels per language, so one for English (global), one for German (D A CH), one for Spanish etc. Alternatively in the channel a language search could be implemented.

The question is: What happens if multiple people want to stream at the same time during a laptop workshop. This probably gives a collision so maybe it is better to keep separate ones but have a "summary" one which has a library will all local ones...

jordi's picture
Submitted by jordi on Mon, 03/20/2017 - 10:17

Right, i think that makes sense. I would suggest having a common channel to post videos that are of general interest, while every hub/region can keep their own channels for their own live streaming and local videos.