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Not only SCOLA service described in the previous post, there are other services (with or without the fee) for international TV and films.

The viki website can search the movies and films by languages and/or countries.  The hulu website allows you to search the international movies and films by genre.

hulu website

 

There are also the issues and barriers associated with broadcasting the international TV programing.

There was the live event called “Language Lab Unleashed (LLU) Live #9: Int’l Television Programming & Language Centers” at Language Lab Unleashed website [http://languagelabunleashed.org/].

It is the event in which 3 language lab directors (also some are language instructors) sharing the ideas of viewing and using the international TV.

Fundamentally, the most significant aspect of having such service is for instructors to figure out what they would like to do with this sort of content.  Depending on the needs, there may be some alternative option that they can seek out.

They have also emphasized that the technology is already there for us to stream the international programs but we have the regulation of the geographical location for some services.

Through the live session, they have talked about pros and cons between International TV service and purchasing films as well as what kind of device and services are currently available on the market.  These are some of the device and services mentioned in the event.

Roku is the digital streaming player that will send the programing to TV monitor through WiFi.

There are the services such as dishworld which has the contract with Roku device to connect to the service.

 

Again, the bottom line is the question of ‘how the instructors and students would like to use the content’.  Depending on the purpose of its use, some may be better off with purchasing the series of films.  Other may decide to go with subscribing the services such as SCOLA [previous blog post].

 

SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization that provides streaming TV programing in the variety of languages.  Stanford University is currently subscribing the SCOLA program to access their foreign language resources.

SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization which provides foreign language resources.  Stanford University is currently subscribing the service.  Users can access to the service on campus via this website [URL: http://scola.stanford.edu/].

Major services that SCOLA offers in Stanford campus are following.

• Watch TV Online: Searchable video stream televisions from more than 100 countries and languages.  Download the previous week’s videos.
• International Radio : Searchable database of international radio program.  Save as mp3 file
• Insta-Class: Multimedia instant lesson, ready made classroom instruction.  Video clip, transcript, English translation, quiz, and vocabulary list
• People and Place: Picture of people, places, events, and culture around the world.  Search by category and country.
• Foreign Text: Searchable database of newspaper, magazines, poetry, and children’s books.
• On the Street Video:  everyday people speaking about every day things

 

Watch TV Online: There are 8 channels offered through SCOLA program for live TV online, each of which represents large language groups

• Channel One – European Broadcasts
• Channel Two – Spanish and Portuguese Broadcasts
• Channel Three – Mandarin Chinese (The Confucius Institute) Broadcasts
• Channel Four – Asian Broadcasts
• Channel Five – African Broadcasts
• Channel Six – Middle Eastern Broadcasts
• Channel Seven – Far East Broadcasts
• Channel Eight – Eurasian Broadcasts

You can check the programing schedule here.  http://www.scola.org/Scola/ProgrammeSchedule.aspx

Clicking one of the channels will display the page with video player embedded.

Left sidebar has the list of country and language as well as channel in order for you to search by languages or counties to find the recorded clip or the schedule of live TV.

 

By clicking the ‘Recorded’ tab, you will be able to view and save the videos recorded in previous week.

 

Insta Class: Insta-lesson will allow users to search the collection of video clip and ready made classroom instruction, transcript, English translation, quiz, and vocabulary list.　　You can download PDF, quicktime / windows movie video file, and mp3 audio and zipped file.
Foreign Text: Searchable database of newspaper, magazines, poetry, and children’s books.

                           

International Radio: Searchable database of international radio program.  Save as mp3 file

Foreign Text: Searchable database of newspaper, magazines, poetry, and children’s books.

People and Places: Picture of people, places, events, and culture around the world.  Search by category and country.

“On The Street” Videos: everyday people speaking about every day things