The built-in camera on smartphones can record video and audio at up to almost DVD quality. This facilitates student's recording
events, interviews, and reflections with a vidual dimension, and sharing these online via a variety of mobile friendly video sites
such as YouTube. Video streaming applications such as Qik and Flixwagon allow real-time sharing of video directly from smartphones
to these web-based services. Qik and Flixwagon then archive the video stream for later viewing, sharing and commenting. Additionally
video streaming sites integrate with other mobile web 2 technologies such as Twitter - creating an automatic announcement on Twitter
regarding a live video stream that a student's Twitter followers could then watch in almost real-time. Qik and Flixwagon also feature
the ability to forward video streams to a users YouTube account for sharing on that service as well. Qik supports the association of
geolocation data with video streams, providing a Google Maps link to the actual location of the recorded event.
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