Reading, writing and arithmetic were the essential skills of the last century. Now, expressing yourself in and mastering the production of video has become a whole new dimension of learning and creativity which is slowly appearing in the curriculum in schools around the world. It has become a new essential skill for students in the 21st century.
BoinxTV is a brilliant tool for education. It keeps students interested and engaged by simplifying the video production workflow, allowing them to focus more on the content while at the same time empowering them to create visually appealing videos that look like they have been produced by a real TV production company.
Satisfying Learning Experience
BoinxTV gives students an immediate sense of achievement—it's fun and motivating for those in front of the camera, but also for the operating studio team, to see the results immediately after the recording. For most students, it is a much more satisfying and motivating experience to have an active role in making a television show than just watching one. Creating documentaries, conducting interviews, and developing events gives the students limitless possibilities for producing creative films in a virtual environment—building a learning experience that is personally relevant to them, that is personally created, written, edited, and photographed by them.
The greatest use for BoinxTV for us is when we do our live event broadcasts. Most school events take place in a gym or auditorium. We generally have 3 to 5 camera angles and we will use BoinxTV to add titles, change camera angles, keep scores, and broadcast video to a Tandberg video teleconferencing unit and Ustream.
Damon Hargraves, Bering Strait School District
Make your SchoolTV turn heads
BoinxTV opens up remarkable new opportunities to inform about educational projects and school activities, narrowing the gap between school and community. Easily record the Christmas play or sports events and broadcast it to your community via Internet or Public Access TV. Being a member of the production team will become very prestigious as the viewers will watch in wonder.
Less effort – more result
Class projects gets more vivid and fun with video. Video creators used to have to spend many hours editing their takes to get a professional-looking result. BoinxTV dramatically reduces the overall production time as cuts, graphic effects, titles and more can be applied easily during the recording of the project. Everything that can be done during that stage does not have to be done in post-production. Students can focus on the content, and don't waste their time with editing. This is a big advantage: A basic video production with BoinxTV can be accomplished within the existing timeframe of the class schedule.
An affordable studio
The equipment of a full-blown television studio has always been a heavy investment for educational organizations or is simply out of reach. With BoinxTV you get an affordable, scalable and easy-to-learn solution to build a low-cost TV studio, even with multiple cameras. BoinxTV provides all the possibilities of expensive studio hardware, with software, to create shows with a higher production quality in less time at a fraction of the cost.
Easy to master (for teachers too!)
Students will master BoinxTV in a breeze, but Teachers will not be left far behind. BoinxTV has been honored with an Apple Design Award for its excellent usability and innovation by Apple, the company know for easy to use products. In contrast to traditional Broadcasting equipment, BoinxTV is extremely intuitive, making it easy to comprehend and use.
I use BoinxTV a lot. I love the application. I use it very heavily for our morning news program. Our show is very layer intensive. (...) I love the layer effect and am now able to make the news look much more professional. (...) We broadcast live every morning. (...)
Linda Dombchik - Hebrew Day School - USA
Skills fostered by the use of BoinxTV
Working with video and especially with BoinxTV, students will acquire numerous skills. First of all of course the technical skills needed to produce a TV show: How does the equipment work? What are the workflows needed to create a live TV show? Apart from that, a lot of soft skills are honed: How do I express and present my point of view? How do I collaborate with others? How do I tell a compelling story? How do I present my school and events to the Community? In the process they also develop their media competencies and learn to understand how the media they consume every day presents an image of the world.
Curriculum Ideas
- Recording a news show
- Conducting interviews
- Presenting a weather report
- Making a documentary
- Create a training video to show people how to do things
- Explaining and broadcasting school projects
- Recording drama lessons to evaluate yourself
- Training for giving presentations, speeches, moderation
- Creating advertisments for school, college, courses, etc.
- Making short motion pictures using croma-keying insteed of seachring locations. They can easily take place in different counties, the past, the futur or maybe inside a famous picture
- Produce a daily live show during a foreign student exchange program for the parents at home
We use BoinxTV to broadcast live news each and every morning at our elementary school. The broadcast consists of current events, poem of the day, did you know facts, weather, birthdays, perfect attendance, school absences as well as announcements from the office. Each student on the team has a role for the day. (...) The great thing is that they're already trained and I really don't have to do anything except for watch them and be proud. Thanks for creating such a fantastic product!
Reed Brotherton - Technology Integration
Enhancement Specialist (T.I.E.S.)
- Fowler School District - USA
Studio Equipment
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013BoinxTV is nominated for Best Webcast Platform at the Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards 2013. We couldn't be more excited to be included in a category full of some of the most talented and innovative companies around! Show your support and go vote for us here!
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013Boinx Software is on the lookout for an intern to help us manage a new Wiki page for BoinxTV, the TV truck – without the truck! This is a paid internship requiring about 10 hours per week. Though we are based in Germany and this is primarily a work-from-home type of job, our marketing team in Boston will assist in managing the internship. This means we are looking for a candidate based in the Boston area who would be available to meet in the Boston office periodically. Responsibilities for the internship include, but are not limited to: - Gathering a deep understanding of how BoinxTV works - Creating and editing wiki entries for documenting app features using Markdown - Creating and editing screenshots for the documentation - Responding to customer comments and requests regarding the documentation Requirements: - Candidates must be currently enrolled in college and pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer sciences, broadcast technology, journalism, web design/media, IT, film/broadcast,...
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