Digital Video

Here's a video I made of my daughter riding her pony. I will attempt to make another. One of the ways we use the videos in my riding lessons is for kids to be able to critique themselves and their horse on body position, etc. I would like to be able to have kids in my science classes use the digital pictures and video to produce digital "lab reports" for their science experiments, but I don't have a digital camera for my classroom. However, the kids have plenty of cell phones that can record, but no cords for file transfer. Any suggestions on how to get around this issue? Also, is there a particular way to record the video so that the video isn't too large? Thanks.



Okay, so I was able to get the video uploaded, which took around 5 minutes to load. But for some reason, there's no sound.

Using Jing to Screencast a video

In Chapter 2 of the Tech in the Secondary Science Classroom there are a listing of good web resources for using Digital Video. I tried out this one on Chemistry, it's called Chemistry Comes Alive. They have great videos for some of the more hazardous or intangible chemistry concepts. This was a cool one that shows a phenomenon I'd never heard about wherein a mercury droplet can be made to pulsate like a beating heart. Too cool. Anyway, most of the videos have a text explanation of the chemical concept being demonstrated. This particular video also had targeting questions to get the students thinking and to convey their understanding about what they observed.
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/jcesoft/cca/pirelli/pages/cca3heart.html

P.S. I tried to screencast this video, but the resulting video was too large (75 mb). Not sure why. So I aborted that attempt.