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Friday, 28 March 2008

Week 6 - online video

I had heard of YouTube before - mostly for fun stuff ... like the internet version of funniest home videos. Boy had I underestimated it's potential:

  • I have seen some great examples in this course of short video tutorials, embedded in the course they work well.
  • I have learned that YouTube isn't the only hosting site - videos can also be found in TeacherTube, blipTV, MetaCafe, Daily Motion, DotSub and Google Video to name a few.
  • I have learned that many organisations block access to sites like these to limit the use of bandwidth - we need to keep this in mind when we put resources up in these formats for our clients
  • I haven't tried uploading a video ... but I hope to in the future
  • I added a video bar from youTube to my blog and here is a video I've embedded:





I chose it because it shows that even if we don't add content to online video sources library clients are quite capable of putting up their own... as the folks at SLQ have discovered.

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