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Videos in ePortfolio
Good Afternoon All -
We are implementing ePortolios on a trial basis for our first year students and one of the items that we want the students to include is a 20 minute video presentation.
The videos will have to be housed somewhere off campus so that when the students leave and take their ePortfolios with them, they will have access to the 20 minute video in their ePortfolio. Our students don't have access to college network resources when they leave aside from their e-mail accounts that stay with them for a year after graduation.
We just tried testing using a personal Yahoo account as an option, but marking them private doesn't work and we don't feel that asking students to have them stay public is a good path to follow.
Our test video was compressed from its original AVI format to an MP4 format going down to 110MB in size, which will definitely add up once the whole freshman class starts doing these videos.
Is anyone doing this at their institution in a way that works for them? I'd be interested in your feedback on this.
Any ideas on this will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Ron
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Ron Loneker, Jr.
Director of Media Services
College of Saint Elizabeth
Mahoney Library
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: 973-290-4229
FAX: 973-290-4246
e-mail: rloneker@cse.edu
********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
We are implementing ePortolios on a trial basis for our first year students and one of the items that we want the students to include is a 20 minute video presentation.
The videos will have to be housed somewhere off campus so that when the students leave and take their ePortfolios with them, they will have access to the 20 minute video in their ePortfolio. Our students don't have access to college network resources when they leave aside from their e-mail accounts that stay with them for a year after graduation.
We just tried testing using a personal Yahoo account as an option, but marking them private doesn't work and we don't feel that asking students to have them stay public is a good path to follow.
Our test video was compressed from its original AVI format to an MP4 format going down to 110MB in size, which will definitely add up once the whole freshman class starts doing these videos.
Is anyone doing this at their institution in a way that works for them? I'd be interested in your feedback on this.
Any ideas on this will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Ron
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Ron Loneker, Jr.
Director of Media Services
College of Saint Elizabeth
Mahoney Library
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: 973-290-4229
FAX: 973-290-4246
e-mail: rloneker@cse.edu
********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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Hi,
Google Apps for education is the way to go. You can use Google Sites as an eportfolio platform. Students can use their Google Apps account to upload videos to YouTube. When students leave school you can leave their accounts active or they can transfer data to another gmail.
Ammar Merhbi
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Ronald Loneker wrote:
Hey Ron,
How about Vimeo? (http://www.vimeo.com ) We are using them for our website videos and so far that has worked well. They can make them public or they could also just make them available via a link and embed them into their page. They provide a decent amount of space for free (though we are using their “Pro” version).
Sincerely,
Alan
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J. Alan Schrock
Director of Information Technology, Library, and Academic Services
European Nazarene College
Junkerstrasse 68-70
78266 Büsingen
Germany
Email: aschrock@eunc.edu
Office (U.S. Number): (309) 833-1908
Skype: schrock_office
Hi Ron, Rob and Alan (Also in the interests of full disclosure, I am the founder of Chalk & Wire and I am replying to three people here specifically as I do not want to mix commerce with collegial discussion). We provide a full featured ePortfolio authoring tool that includes the import, conversion, compression and embedded playback of both Flash and High Definition video. The upload limit is a GB (which in and of itself is an "anti-social" sized file to be be pushing around your own network let alone the Web) as well BUT, and here is the catch, the issue is not how big is the video or the upload limit, but how much space will the service allot for the secure storage and secure sharing/assessment of the video files (we provide all the tools to annotate the video as well) and all the other files that a student portfolio comprises. In our case the size of the space provided is unlimited. That is not the norm in this sector. If you would like more information about what we do I would be pleased to chat with you. @Robert, I note you are at Oshkosh. You likely do not know that you already have a another solution for embedded video, storage, ePortfolios and assessment/feedback and have had since 2006. It is actually us. The university still has its own Chalk & Wire site which we have updated with each new release since we first appeared during an early pilot on Campus. So far as I know you still have accounts dating back to the original pilot many years ago that are available for use. If you would like to find our more about the tools which not only include ePortfolios but also collaborative spaces for students to work in and a lot of analytics and tracking/reporting tools (The suite is an RIA that works on computers and Smart Devices ike iPads). We are also IMS Certified (as is D2L); so technically if they are serious about inter-operability we could appear in any number of ways in that LMS. If anyone has questions about how we might help please just contact me directly at geoff@chalkandwire.com Best, Geoff On Sep 26, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Robert Robertson wrote: > Hi Ron, > > That's quite a long video in the context of third-party web services. > One key part of the question will be if you're looking for a solution > with a player to make use of embedding or would be able to work with > with linking. > > For context, we are testing locally hosted Kaltura for course-related > content and which we can embed in our Desire 2 Learn LMS/ ePortfolio. > There are others on campus using Foliotek for similar purposes. > > In terms of web services, although Youtube seems to have increased > support for longer videos > http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71673 > there are a number of restrictions on that usage which users may or > may not have concerns about. > > AFAIK Vimeo still allows longer videos by default but I've not checked recently. > > If a link only option might be possible, have you considered > suggesting students use something like Google Drive/ Skydrive/ > Dropbox? > > Kind regards, > John > > > -- > > R. John Robertson > ePortfolio and Online Learning Support > Learning Technologies > University of Wisconsin Oshkosh > 920-424-0487 > Twitter: @kavubob > Skype: rjohnrobertson > >
We use Google apps also and it makes it easier as all their information is stored in one place. They keep their information when they leave and can upload documents, photos, and YouTubes into their ePortfolio site.
Virginia R. Jones, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Adult Education Programs, Online Learning,
and Learning Architecture
P O Box 1000
150 Wiley Drive
Ferrum, VA 24088
phone 540-365-4428
fax 540-365-4423
cell 434-579-5174
ePortfolio: http://virginiajones.weebly.com
Multimedia Web Developer
Good Afternoon All -
We are implementing ePortolios on a trial basis for our first year students and one of the items that we want the students to include is a 20 minute video presentation.
The videos will have to be housed somewhere off campus so that when the students leave and take their ePortfolios with them, they will have access to the 20 minute video in their ePortfolio. Our students don't have access to college network resources when they leave aside from their e-mail accounts that stay with them for a year after graduation.
We just tried testing using a personal Yahoo account as an option, but marking them private doesn't work and we don't feel that asking students to have them stay public is a good path to follow.
Our test video was compressed from its original AVI format to an MP4 format going down to 110MB in size, which will definitely add up once the whole freshman class starts doing these videos.
Is anyone doing this at their institution in a way that works for them? I'd be interested in your feedback on this.
Any ideas on this will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Ron
-----------------------------------
Ron Loneker, Jr.
Director of Media Services
College of Saint Elizabeth
Mahoney Library
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: 973-290-4229
FAX: 973-290-4246
e-mail: rloneker@cse.edu
********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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Director, North Institute for Teaching and Learning
Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning
Instructor of Biblical Greek and New Testament
Oklahoma Christian University
http://ni.oc.edu