Video Clip Database for Introductory Psychology
Academic Year:
2011 - 2012 (June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2012)
Funding Requested:
$2,500.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
Each year, approximately 4000 students enroll in Introductory Psychology (PSY111), a survey course in which video clips are frequently used. Although instructors sometimes share some videos with each other, many are incorrectly formatted, poorly labeled, poorly edited, or poorly organized, and there is no shared database. The goal of this project will therefore be to 1) create a collection of high-quality, well-edited and labeled video clips appropriate for use in Introductory Psychology courses, and 2)develop a database to make these clips easily accessible and updatable by all Introductory Psychology Instructors. Video clips have been 1)converted to a format that can be embedded into Power Point slides (using Handbreak), 2)occasionally been edited to shorter segments (using Avidemux 2.5), and 3) created into a searchable video database (using iViewMedia Pro3). Approximately 1,000 video clips, requiring nearly 90 gigs of storage space, are now in the video database which resides on a personal external hard drive. Future plans include continued editing of videos to shorter lengths bettter suited to lectures, attempting to improve quality of some of the clips, better labeling and meta tagging of the video clips, and transfer of the local database to the University's yet to be acquired web-based video database system. These changes will make the video database more accessible and useful to colleagues.