[Web4lib] Leeding The Way: Educational UTube At Leeds University

[Alan Cockerill]

Hi

I don't suppose anyone from Leeds could give a brief overview of the
underlying technologies?

We're currently looking at acquiring FlashMediaServer and integrating it
with Blackboard and Masterfile (and possible the Tandberg Content Manager)
to offer similar services and a lecture recording/viewing service.

I think I saw BB mentioned on one of the blogs, and I'm guessing FMS is what
is being used to display vid but confirmation/elaboration from Adrian or
colleagues would help reassure me we're not chasing a mythical beast.

And I occasionally hear rumours about AARNet peering Youtube and iTunesU
which would make externally hosted video more workable for Australian
tertiary education institutions.

Alan.

Alan Cockerill
Library Technologies Coordinator
James Cook University 

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Subject: [Web4lib] Leeding The Way: Educational UTube At Leeds University

Colleagues/

 

LUTube: University of Leeds UTube 

 

LUTube is the new service at Leeds that will allow staff and students to
share and watch online videos. You can log in and upload your content in
most standard video formats and it will automatically be converted and
optimised for viewing on the web.

 

LUTube's functionality includes: 

 

Video upload and conversion to Flash format from .wmv, .flv, .mov, .avi,
.mpg/mpeg, .mp4, .3gp, .ogg 

Automatically generated embed code allows videos to be displayed on
other sites 

Categorise content with tagging, description and copyright information 

Comment and reply to other users discussing videos on LUTube 

Create, develop and customise your own LUTube channel 

Subscribe to other user's channels 

Create and join custom groups (coming soon) 

Choose to restrict content to logged in users only, faculty, school,
module or selected

individuals or groups (coming soon). 

Browse schools and faculties for content (coming soon) 

Search for videos by tags, titles and users (coming soon) 

Collect selected resources from across LUTube and assemble then in one
location (coming soon)

 

Links to The Site and Its Blog Are Available From

 

[http://tinyurl.com/9335z2 ]

 

>>>IMHO This A Great Model for Educational Video Services !!!<<<

 

BTW-1: I am very interested in other Educational U-Tube Implementations
(be they at _U_niversities or _C_olleges or other institutions of
_H_igher Education, or Other _E_ducational Levels).

 

[I am aware of TeacherTube  [ http://www.teachertube.com/ ]]/

 

BTW-2: Thanks to Adrian Smith (Leeds) for The HeadsUp !!!

 

Regards

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

 

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