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Using Web-based Services for Hosting Videos - JISC Digital Media

Thu May 23 21:54:26 +0000 2013

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Whilst the appeal of free web-based hosting is clear, it should be made clear from the outset that to use these services effectively, resources, especially in terms of time, will need to be deployed.
These services should definitely NOT be viewed as a quick and/or easy way of hosting material for teaching and learning purposes, or for meeting institutions' strategic objectives for business and community engagement.
Whilst it is, of course, possible for an individual teacher, or student, to become a member of a service, upload a video and use it in teaching and learning activities, this should not be done without careful thought and planning.
The time taken to prepare, edit, upload and describe the video on the service.
The time taken to consider and control access to the video (i.e. is the video to be made available to the general public, which is the default setting on most services, or is it to be restricted it to students?)
How the video will be used in the teaching and learning environment or for business and community engagement. For instance, can it be assumed that all students now have suitable internet access or does the video need to be made available offline if an essential resource as part of a course?
The resilience of the service; these are relatively new and dynamic services and terms and conditions of use change.
Access to the original video; if this is being used as an alternative to personal or institutional storage, is it possible to download the original, uncompressed video
According to the Terms and Conditions of YouTube it is not permissible to upload video to which the user does not hold full copyright
Multiple free memberships, to create multiple channels, would require multiple e-mail addresses, as the e-mail addresses are associated with unique usernames.
Once uploaded, there is NO access to the original file although a compressed; MP4 version of each video is available to the uploader only.
Third party applications are widely and easily available free of charge to allow downloading of other users' YouTube videos, although the use of such applications would break the Terms and Conditions of the use of YouTube
The flexibility of YouTube for restricting access, to cohorts of students, for instance, is clearly limited
Once membership is acquired, videos can be downloaded by the owner in their original format for one week after they are loaded, after which time they can only be downloaded in their compressed format, unless purchasing VimeoPLUS (see below) This would allow for confidence that the video will be available for viewing at a given time and place in the absence of internet access.
The ability to download compressed versions of other users' videos
- The ability to communicate with other users, in order to check permission for use of their video, or to establish communities of related interest.
- The ability to comment, tag or share videos on other sites
- Ability to group other users' videos into 'albums' which could prove a useful tool for organising videos for future use
As with YouTube, multiple free memberships would be needed to create multiple channels, requiring multiple e-mail addresses, as the unique username for the service is the e-mail address of the user
all videos uploaded to the site "shall at all times remain your sole and exclusive property"
It is worth re-iterating that the use of any of these sites for hosting video material should not be regarded as a quick and/or easy alternative to hosting by an institution.

Conferences Need To Focus More On Learning Design And Less On Information Transfer

Sun May 19 11:37:01 +0000 2013

Conferences need to focus more on learning design & less on info transfer http://t.co/D3QljmjAbh <Gd to see how my stats used HT @ColinSteed

Flipboard: Your News Magazine - Android Apps on Google Play

Tue May 14 21:10:59 +0000 2013

a great way to discover, read and share interesting feeds of information. Now you can create custom "magazines" for others to read.

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Ovo timer - Android Apps on Google Play

Tue May 14 21:08:36 +0000 2013

Excellent "teach timer" app for keeping class meetings on schedule. Stable and simple to work with.

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OnLive Desktop - Microsoft Office in the Cloud

Tue May 14 20:33:26 +0000 2013

A real copy of Microsoft Office, on your tablet, via the cloud. Use this when you really need a copy of REAL MS Office and no substitute will do.

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Sun May 12 11:31:52 +0000 2013

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Hojoki - One client for apps - Android Apps on Google Play

Fri Apr 26 16:55:37 +0000 2013

This app aggregates your activity on other web productivity apps like Evernote, Google Docs, Twitter, Delicious, and Trello so you can see a unified activity stream from all your cloud apps. This is great if you're working with a group on a complex project that requires everyone to know about updates, and helps to minimize social media fatigue.

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Anatomy 3D - Anatronica - Android Apps on Google Play

Wed Apr 24 00:11:10 +0000 2013

Great anatomy app for iOS and Android

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Are Subarus the best cars money can buy? - Fortune Management

Wed Apr 17 22:20:02 +0000 2013

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SuperCard Flashcards - Android Apps on Google Play

Thu Apr 04 19:57:42 +0000 2013

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Thu Mar 21 10:45:29 +0000 2013

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Kingsoft Office 5.3.4(Free) - Android Apps on Google Play

Wed Mar 20 19:46:02 +0000 2013

This is a free app that opens and edits Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Learn CSS Layout

Wed Mar 13 21:09:53 +0000 2013

This is an excellent, human-friendly approach to CSS positioning.

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Swan (2012) Improving Courses across an Online Program: A Design Based Approach

Wed Mar 06 22:52:45 +0000 2013

Swan 2003- LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS ONLINE: WHAT THE RESEARCH TELLS US

Wed Mar 06 22:36:57 +0000 2013

Swan (2001) Design factors affecting student satisfaction and perceived learning in asynchronous online courses

Wed Mar 06 22:34:54 +0000 2013

This widely cited study underscores the importance of feedback and interaction on student achievement outcomes in online courses.

EDUCAUSE LISTSERV - Kaltura vs ShareStream

Wed Mar 06 16:57:44 +0000 2013

Kaltura Streaming Server..... | EDUCAUSE.edu

Wed Mar 06 16:54:58 +0000 2013

"KALTURA STREAMING SERVER..... Posted by msherer on May 4, 2012 We're needing a video streaming server for some online courses we're offering and have had a couple of unsuccessful runs at getting open source Kaltura working. We're no strangers to OSS software, so the question arises, is anybody in higher ed successfully using the OSS version of Kaltura, or only the commercial version. And the second question would be, if you're not using Kaltura for video streaming are you using something else that is cost effective and good. -ms +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Sherer voice: 574-535-7406 Director of Information Technology 016 Union Bldg. fax: 574-535-7017 Goshen College e-mail: msherer@goshen.edu Goshen, IN 46526 http://www.goshen.edu/~msherer +------------------------------------------------------------+ "Technology for Service" "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. Post a Comment Comments Michael, We have been using Mediasite from Sonic Foundry for about 5 years now for video streaming. The video content is integrated with our Angel Learning online and hybrid classes but we also use it to stream live events. The public catalog is online at http://mediasite.ashland.edu and you will see things from Gmail training sessions and commencement to a dinner presentation by John Boehner. We are very pleased but we are also looking closely at Panopto because it seems a little easier to deploy to many classrooms (Mediasite is in about 6 rooms and scaling up would be quite expensive) and it would give faculty an students the ability to record on their personal devices and post that content to class for viewing. Mediasite is suppose to be coming out with something to meet this need as well but so far we haven't seen anything. Take care! Curtis Posted by: cdwhite on May 6, 2012 I have to jump in here... I consider Kaltura, ShareStream, MediaCast and Ensemble to be a completely different breed than lecture capture e.g., Panopto, Mediasite, Echo etc. The only thing they have in common is that they 'stream video'. However, *what* they stream is where we have quite a bit of divergence. Lecture capture is designed to capture and stream classroom [lecture] content. Playback is most often through an interface that blends PowerPoint with video and audio. Time stamping and thumbnails are auto-generated. (We use Panopto and it's quite effective for this purpose.) The primary people composing the recordings are the faculty. Yes, we have students composing recordings as well, but the Panopto ecosystem is much different - and not as 'ingest friendly' as the true streaming products. Output is one option: Silverlight. The ShareStream and Kaltura (et. al.) products are much, much different in my opinion. We're quite impressed with ShareStream because of its ability to parallel a YouTube-like experience. (Including searchable metadata.) Export options include H.264, Flash, HTML5, etc. Faculty can create video "assignments" from inside the LMS. Students capture videos using their Smartphone, or Flip, or handheld cameras, or whatever and ingest them into ShareStream. The product automatically transcodes the video and attaches it to the assignment link. Faculty watch the videos and grade them from within the LMS. Similarly, faculty can create an index of videos (with DRM and other native protection) that they can insert onto their course for curricular playback. This avoids a number of issues associated with YouTube. (We've had at least one incident where a faculty member was referencing a standard YouTube video entitled "Shift Happens". Another video with 'similar' metadata appeared instead.) We have students that create video portfolios as part of their capstone projects that would be perfect for ShareStream. As it stands now, they have to create a YouTube account and upload them. While perhaps fine for generic videos, YouTube doesn't work so well when the students have to create videos with, say, special education children - for reasons regarding confidentiality. ShareStream is also the perfect solution for faculty who generate desktop captures using Captivate or Camtasia. Videos are ingested natively into ShareStream and convert to any number of output formats. They also have some nice mobile options... Panopto does have a product called 'Unison' that comes closer to bridging lecture capture and "standard" video, but it has its own unique niche as well. Still not quite the product we envision for sharing video between students and faculty. No deep LMS integration - yet. RG From: The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv [CIO@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Curtis White [cdwhite@ASHLAND.EDU] Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 6:51 AM To: Rob Gibson; The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv Subject: Re: [CIO] Kaltura Streaming Server..... Michael, We have been using Mediasite from Sonic Foundry for about 5 years now for video streaming. The video content is integrated with our Angel Learning online and hybrid classes but we also use it to stream live events. The public catalog is online at http://mediasite.ashland.edu and you will see things from Gmail training sessions and commencement to a dinner presentation by John Boehner. We are very pleased but we are also looking closely at Panopto because it seems a little easier to deploy to many classrooms (Mediasite is in about 6 rooms and scaling up would be quite expensive) and it would give faculty an students the ability to record on their personal devices and post that content to class for viewing. Mediasite is suppose to be coming out with something to meet this need as well but so far we haven't seen anything. Take care! Curtis Posted by: gibsonr on May 6, 2012 Message from amacleod@ocadu.ca Our overall open-source support experience with Kaltura CE has been poor, with our technicians reporting numerous knowledge base threads that drop off and have no reply to issues that are obviously bugs, and not configuration issues. We attempted to implement it twice, with two different versions CE3 and CE4. The developers are difficult to access and they do not respond to support threads. There appear to be components that are hard coded into the Flash object that are preventing it from functioning properly but that is just our best guess: we had issues with it running reliably over SSL. We're abandoning it and looking elsewhere. ALASTAIR MACLEOD DIRECTOR, IT SERVICES T 416 977 6000 x242 F 416 977 6006 E amacleod@ocadu.ca OCAD UNIVERSITY 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada M5T 1W1 www.ocadu.ca Please note: My email address has changed to amacleod@ocadu.ca. Please update my contact information in your records. Thank you. From: The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:CIO@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob Gibson Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 10:33 AM To: CIO@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [CIO] Kaltura Streaming Server..... I have to jump in here... I consider Kaltura, ShareStream, MediaCast and Ensemble to be a completely different breed than lecture capture e.g., Panopto, Mediasite, Echo etc. The only thing they have in common is that they 'stream video'. However, *what* they stream is where we have quite a bit of divergence. Lecture capture is designed to capture and stream classroom [lecture] content. Playback is most often through an interface that blends PowerPoint with video and audio. Time stamping and thumbnails are auto-generated. (We use Panopto and it's quite effective for this purpose.) The primary people composing the recordings are the faculty. Yes, we have students composing recordings as well, but the Panopto ecosystem is much different - and not as 'ingest friendly' as the true streaming products. Output is one option: Silverlight. The ShareStream and Kaltura (et. al.) products are much, much different in my opinion. We're quite impressed with ShareStream because of its ability to parallel a YouTube-like experience. (Including searchable metadata.) Export options include H.264, Flash, HTML5, etc. Faculty can create video "assignments" from inside the LMS. Students capture videos using their Smartphone, or Flip, or handheld cameras, or whatever and ingest them into ShareStream. The product automatically transcodes the video and attaches it to the assignment link. Faculty watch the videos and grade them from within the LMS. Similarly, faculty can create an index of videos (with DRM and other native protection) that they can insert onto their course for curricular playback. This avoids a number of issues associated with YouTube. (We've had at least one incident where a faculty member was referencing a standard YouTube video entitled "Shift Happens". Another video with 'similar' metadata appeared instead.) We have students that create video portfolios as part of their capstone projects that would be perfect for ShareStream. As it stands now, they have to create a YouTube account and upload them. While perhaps fine for generic videos, YouTube doesn't work so well when the students have to create videos with, say, special education children - for reasons regarding confidentiality. ShareStream is also the perfect solution for faculty who generate desktop captures using Captivate or Camtasia. Videos are ingested natively into ShareStream and convert to any number of output formats. They also have some nice mobile options... Panopto does have a product called 'Unison' that comes closer to bridging lecture capture and "standard" video, but it has its own unique niche as well. Still not quite the product we envision for sharing video between students and faculty. No deep LMS integration - yet. RG From: The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv [CIO@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Curtis White [cdwhite@ASHLAND.EDU] Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 6:51 AM To: Rob Gibson; The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv Subject: Re: [CIO] Kaltura Streaming Server..... Michael, We have been using Mediasite from Sonic Foundry for about 5 years now for video streaming. The video content is integrated with our Angel Learning online and hybrid classes but we also use it to stream live events. The public catalog is online at http://mediasite.ashland.edu and you will see things from Gmail training sessions and commencement to a dinner presentation by John Boehner. We are very pleased but we are also looking closely at Panopto because it seems a little easier to deploy to many classrooms (Mediasite is in about 6 rooms and scaling up would be quite expensive) and it would give faculty an students the ability to record on their personal devices and post that content to class for viewing. Mediasite is suppose to be coming out with something to meet this need as well but so far we haven't seen anything. Take care! Curtis Posted by: listserv-anon on May 7, 2012 We spent over two years researching the best multimedia delivery platform for instruction *for* our campus, and went back-and-forth between Kaltura and ShareStream. I underscore *for* our campus to emphasize the particular requirements and priorities that any one institution can have at a particular moment when evaluating technology and solutions. We picked ShareStream because it was the best fit for UIC in terms of being extremely easy for our faculty and students to use (which was our most important priority), but also because ShareStream offers a complete package, out-of-the-box, with a rather responsive vendor that is exclusively focus on education. Kaltura is also very good technology, but I/we did not want to program and hunt among the various Kaltura Inc. and Kaltura open-source software components, like the LMS add-ons, which as of last Fall must be purchased from Kaltura Inc. but certain players and other functionality is strictly open-source and if it doesn’t match what you need, you need to do the right thing and program it yourself, and contribute it to the OSS community, etc. We did not have time or staff to do that. Besides, ShareStream costs less, is a lot easier to administer, has a much richer digital rights management smarts and uses a database in the backend (as opposed to Kaltura’s flat file architecture) resulting in a much cleaner, faster and more scalable multimedia delivery system. In terms of the LMS integration, the ShareStream Blackboard Learn LMS add-on is the best I have seen, the easiest to use, and the faculty that have seen it and tried it, love it. Also, unlike Kaltura Inc.’s, ShareStream’s multimedia delivery and playback for mobile devices is included, and works extremely well on all mobile OS platforms. Like Kaltura, ShareStream can be self-hosted or hosted by the vendor. At this time, we chose to have it hosted, because of staffing issues. ShareStream’s hosting support and tech support has been wonderful. We think, we made the best decision for our school, but both products are similar and good. Most importantly, we are most pleased that we have finally solved a nagging problem that we have had for several years :: our faculty, teaching staff and students can now easily create multimedia content, simply upload it and easily manage who has access to it. ShareStream with or without the Blackboard Learn LMS add-on takes care of the rest: compression, transcoding into multiple institutionally-preferred file formats, storing it (inc. optionally saving the original), managing its access and then streaming it on-demand just to a class, just to a group of students, to colleagues inside and outside of our University, with meta tags and asset management functionality, if need be. Our faculty love that they can finally just upload video to the LMS without needing technical assistance; they can give multimedia student assignments with the same ease as assigning term papers, and the students can just upload their multimedia assignments as easy as they would upload a Microsoft Word or PDF file. I can retire now… --- Ed -- Ed Garay Assistant Director for Academic Computing (ACCC) Director, UIC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) University of Illinois at Chicago www.accc.uic.edu/itl www.twitter.com/garay ** Ubiquitously social…"

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I consider Kaltura, ShareStream, MediaCast and Ensemble to be a completely different breed than lecture capture e.g., Panopto, Mediasite, Echo etc. The only thing they have in common is that they 'stream video'. However, *what* they stream is where we have quite a bit of divergence.
We use Panopto and it's quite effective for this purpose.
The ShareStream and Kaltura (et. al.) products are much, much different in my opinion. We're quite impressed with ShareStream because of its ability to parallel a YouTube-like experience. (Including searchable metadata.)
Panopto does have a product called 'Unison' that comes closer to bridging lecture capture and "standard" video, but it has its own unique niche as well. Still not quite the product we envision for sharing video between students and faculty. No deep LMS integration - yet.
We have been using Mediasite from Sonic Foundry for about 5 years now for video streaming.
We are very pleased but we are also looking closely at Panopto because it seems a little easier to deploy to many classrooms (Mediasite is in about 6 rooms and scaling up would be quite expensive) and it would give faculty an students the ability to record on their personal devices and post that content to class for viewing.
Our overall open-source support experience with Kaltura CE has been poor, with our technicians reporting numerous knowledge base threads that drop off and have no reply to issues that are obviously bugs, and not configuration issues.
We picked ShareStream because it was the best fit for UIC in terms of being extremely easy for our faculty and students to use (which was our most important priority), but also because ShareStream offers a complete package, out-of-the-box, with a rather responsive vendor that is exclusively focus on education.
Kaltura is also very good technology, but I/we did not want to program and hunt among the various Kaltura Inc. and Kaltura open-source software components, like the LMS add-ons, which as of last Fall must be purchased from Kaltura Inc. but certain players and other functionality is strictly open-source and if it doesn’t match what you need, you need to do the right thing and program it yourself, and contribute it to the OSS community, etc. We did not have time or staff to do that.
ShareStream costs less, is a lot easier to administer, has a much richer digital rights management smarts and uses a database in the backend (as opposed to Kaltura’s flat file architecture) resulting in a much cleaner, faster and more scalable multimedia delivery system.
our faculty, teaching staff and students can now easily create multimedia content, simply upload it and easily manage who has access to it
Our faculty love that they can finally just upload video to the LMS without needing technical assistance; they can give multimedia student assignments with the same ease as assigning term papers, and the students can just upload their multimedia assignments as easy as they would upload a Microsoft Word or PDF file

The State of Enterprise Video 2013 - Streaming Media Magazine

Tue Mar 05 01:44:51 +0000 2013

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Corporate networks are another issue. Many were never designed to handle the massive data traffic that enterprise video can consume, especially in a BYOD-driven work environment.

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Using Web-based Services for Hosting Videos - JISC Digital Media

Controlling access

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Ovo timer - Android Apps on Google Play

OnLive Desktop - Microsoft Office in the Cloud

Photo by eileenr • Instagram

If anyone needs me, I'll be here for the next 424

Hojoki - One client for apps - Android Apps on Google Play

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SuperCard Flashcards - Android Apps on Google Play

The -ing continues... http://t.co/BuANjnpIzM

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Learn CSS Layout

Swan (2012) Improving Courses across an Online Program: A Design Based Approach

Swan 2003- LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS ONLINE: WHAT THE RESEARCH TELLS US

Swan (2001) Design factors affecting student satisfaction and perceived learning in asynchronous online courses

EDUCAUSE LISTSERV - Kaltura vs ShareStream

Kaltura Streaming Server..... | EDUCAUSE.edu

The State of Enterprise Video 2013 - Streaming Media Magazine