Panoramic Video
During a presentation at AcrossWorld for Education Object Economy, I saw Dr. Roy Pea (now at Stanford) talk to distinguished members of the cutting edge educational technology community.
Imagine a long window of video - little activity anywhere - and you can zoom and pan with simple strokes of the mouse, annotate, snapshot, and create clips.
Then imagine creating a Web page out of that with a few clicks of the mouse, with comment scripts and forms.
Panoramic cameras cost thousands (some tens of thousands), but this kind of surveillance and "zooming" video is definately the Future of Learning, for good and ill!
Several members of the audience also mentioned the political implications of this technology. all Eric and I could do was hang on for dear life as the conversation with WorldBank members (via IP Video from Washington DC) took on an ultrawide perspective.
Our moderator being an optimist, we tabled the discussion on privacy and security for another time, but it still weighs on my mind. Roy and his team had a recording capability specially developed for his project but let's imagine a world where this tech is as ubiquitous as other video devices...
It reminds me of the NYC Surveillance Camera Project.
March 5, 2003
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