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>Subject: RE: #8929.3 (!) New strategies for storing and serving digital audio
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>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:36:52 -0400
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>From: "Kloda, Benjamin J." <[log in to unmask]>
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We have the same challenge here in German and Hungarian at FSI (and all of the
other languages as well), with hundreds or even thousands of audio and video
files per course. To manage this, I used to package the files into .zip
archives for each chapter and link them from our LMS. This semester, I imported
the files into iTunes playlists, then converted the playlists to podcast feeds
using a script that one of our programmers developed. The nice thing about
feeds is that you can deliver the same list in several different ways: a
direct-to-iTunes subscription (itpc:// instead of http:// does the trick), a
normal podcast feed, or even using a Flash player such as the JW Player. This
makes it easy for everyone to access the files.
So... instead of hundreds or thousands of links, there is just one link per
chapter.
Hope this helps,
Ben
Benjamin J. Kloda
Language Training Supervisor (German, Dutch, Hungarian)
School of Language Studies
Foreign Service Institute
U.S. Department of State
Tel. (703) 302-7071
Fax (703) 302-7075
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>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:46:39 -0400
>From: Trip Kirkpatrick <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8929.2 (!) New strategies for storing and serving digital audio
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>> >Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:09:00 -0400
>> >From: "Daryl Beres" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> >Subject: New strategies for storing and serving digital audio files
>>
>> My campus has had online audio files stored on our Language Resource
>> Center website for many years, which students would access via a
>> special password. However, we want to get away from having many
>> different passwords for students to remember, so we'd like to make a
>> change to this system.
>>
>> One idea that came up right away was to use our course management
>> system (we use Sakai). That raises questions such as whether we
>> should copy those audio files into each course that's using them, or
>> if we should put a page of links into each course, but store the
>> actual files in another web space. If so, then we'd want to ensure
>> that the files could be accessed freely via Sakai, but would be
>> protected from direct access outside of Sakai.
>>
>> Any suggestions about good systems or solutions you've developed on
>> your campus?
As John Beals mentioned, investigating your options for single sign-on
authentication is worth your while. We have audio files in one location, and
all Yale community can access them by logging in through Yale's Central
Authentication System (CAS), also used at many other institutions.
Yale uses Sakai also, but I wouldn't want the audio files to be associated
with the course sites in it. The way Yale has sites locked down, at least,
if you are not a student enrolled in a course, you don't get access to the
course site. One unwanted side effect would be, of course, that a student
who wanted to practice with last semester's audio files or to try on a new
language would be out of luck.
We deal with copyright restrictions by requiring Yale authentication, by
having the audio files themselves restricted to requests from certain IP
addresses, and by only allowing permissioned files to be downloaded from our
Digital Audio site.
Best,
Trip
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