A couple of years ago I bought a Video Camera with the main aim of being able to include the voices and opinions of young people more easily into training and the like. The plan was fine but the outworking of it was not. I didn't always have the video camera with me, and if I did the download and edit time was MAHOOSIVE and acted as a huge discouragement to actually recording stuff.
Technology, as ever, has moved on rapidly and I've been keeping my eye on the FLIP mini video camera and the reviews that people have posted. The ability to shoot quickly and efficiently then download straight to computer via the Flip out USB connector sounds great.
Yesterday I was at a conference where young people contributed to the content and thinking of the day via video and I reckoned it was time to order one!
So, I eagerly await the Amazon van and I'll let you know if it lives up to hopes ......... via a Youtube clip perhaps!
Ok... freaky... My archdeacon was extolling the virtues of this little gadget yesterday!
Can I take these two things as a sign that I should be allocating some budget that way,... I think so!
That's funny.
I actually ordered mine at the conference where your arch deaco must have been talking to you.
BTW I ordered the standard, rather than the mino, as it uses AA batteries rather than an internal smaller rechargable one!
And here was me sitting here thinking one might be useful for my wife to get for her new job perhaps... then I read the other comments and realised she might be able to steal Sarah's one if she gets it... ;-)