Youtube works on automatic captions

November 20th, 2009

Not properly introduced yet and not without faults but this might be something useful on the long run. And what works now already is an automatic timing feature, where your titles will come up at the right moment without you putting them on the track:

Welcome to the Languages and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs)!

November 16th, 2009

If you live in the UK (and if you are between 13 and 21 - check this out.

All videos online from October language course

November 11th, 2008

All main videos have been added now to Youtube and you can find a playlist here with all of them.

One more example in this block with the theme of “clothes”:

Updated handout: ‘Video Production as a Pedagogical Tool’

June 12th, 2008

You can find an updated handout for video production within education on our mediaeducation.net project.

The page is here.

EU Course: Language Learning and Video Production

May 30th, 2008

We have got still a few vacancies for the next EU teacher training course in October. If you are a language teacher from Europe please check this link out:

EU Course.

You can apply until the end of June 2008.

A video from our last course: Swedish words in innercity Berlin:

Languages in Berlin

May 23rd, 2008

An extension of the speechbubbles.net project with video clip produced by teachers across Europe about the different languages found in the inner city of Berlin (and also from the teachers themselves). Watch the playlist on Youtube.

Enrollment for new language media course started

October 12th, 2007

First applications for the teacher traning course for colleagues from Europe in October 2008 in Berlin have arrived. Contact your National Agency to find out about the deadlines for application.

Course page.

Day of Languages Broadcast will be repeated

October 12th, 2007

The successful live broadcast from Brussels with its subsequent one hour of highlights of language video material will be repeated on the 5th November (17.00 hrs) and 26th November (16.30 hrs) at the Open Channel Berlin (on air dates).

Commissionar Orban at the Speech Bubbles stand.

Brussels EDL

Speech Bubbles broadcast on European Day of Languages

September 19th, 2007

Speech Bubbles will be present in front of the Berlaymont building in Brussels as part of the special exhibition for the European Day of Languages 2007. There will be a one hour transmission on the Open Channel Berlin at 16.00 hrs as well (with a live stream on the Open Channel web, www.okb.de) presenting highlights from our language projects. Watch out for the live introduction from Brussels just before the programme starts.

You can find the press release here.

How is Culture linked with Languages?

September 11th, 2007

A short interview with Vladimir Ĺ ucha, director EU Commission DG Education and Culture also referring to the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008″.