{"id":2879,"date":"2014-10-21T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-10-21T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T08:58:07","slug":"czech-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/10\/21\/czech-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Island Voices was born out of the involvement of Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig in the original 2005-2007 POOLS<\/a> project. SMO has continued to maintain an outward-looking European perspective ever since, and is now leading the POOLS-3<\/a> “Transfer of Innovation” project which sees POOLS outputs and ways of working being taken forward in three new languages – Irish, Catalan, and Czech.<\/p>\n

But it’s a two-way process, in which new partners also bring fresh skills and knowledge to the table for sharing. The Pelican School in Brno has introduced “green screen” techniques into its video-making repertoire, and describes the process in this POOLS-3 blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For anyone interested in “endangered languages” Czech offers an interesting historical contrast to the usual pessimistic trajectory. Wikipedia supplies this basic introduction<\/a> to the language and its history. Our colleagues may have more to teach Gaelic enthusiasts than video techniques!<\/p>\n

In any event, they clearly enjoyed the video-making process! Here’s an example:<\/p>\n