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Hi, Lillie,
Do you have a course management system like Blackboard? This is
something that the instructor can access from home or his office, if he
has a computer, and DVD's are not wasted. We have been handling things
like this in two ways:
The MIMC student staff (or the students who have made the video) export
the video as an MPEG1 or a wmv file, using a 720 x 480 format. (wmv
files are much smaller) Erika and I, who are administrators of
BlackBoard, import the files into Blackboard for the instructors. (But
someone that the instructor has made a "teaching assistant" or
"instructor" could do the same thing). Some instructors have us put the
videos put into the course's Content Collection and others have us put
them into the course itself. In this way, the instructor can decide
whether only he or he and all the students can see the videos.
The second way we do things like this is to export the videos and let
students save them to their USB jump drives. If the instructor has
created an assignment, the student can submit his video himself. Then
only he and the instructor can see his work.
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Lillie,
It sounds like using some sort of online video capture service might work
for you. I think many of the online video streaming sites have built-in
webcam capture options. Either that, or you could have students save their
files to a flash drive that they hand in periodically. 256 mb thumb drives
are super cheap, and some places are giving them out like candy. Hope that
helps.
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Johnathon Beals
GVSU LRC
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Hello Lilly,
I can think of 4 different approaches$E2A$A6each has its ups and downs:
1. Have the students submit their files through your course management
system if you$E2Aove got one: Moodle, Blackboard, Angel, etc$E2A$A6. Check
with your system administrator if there is an upload limit on file size
(mine is set to 50MB). It can be changed by the Administrator if
needed.
2. Have your network administrator set up a shared folder on the
network so that the students and faculty member can access and post to
it$E2A$A6 you might need to restrict the students from read capabilities if
you need to keep the assignments private and secure. Systems can also
be set up to have a $E2Audrop box$E2Au $E2Ai check with your network
administrator.
3. Try out a service online called Eyejot.com$E2A$A6 free service wherein
students can send video emails$E2A$A6 the free service allows 1 minute of
video. This adds a layer of technology, but it sure is cool! ;-)
4. If these files are really needed in a portable medium (you$E2Aove been
burning CDs), USB flash drives are cheap these days$E2A$A6 I did a quick look
around and Staples has 2GB drives for as little as $7.99
Hope this helps expand your world of possibilities!
I$E2Aom interested in reading other responses as large files are becoming
more and more prevalent.
---mike
Michael Nieckoski
Manager, Technology Learning Services
Landmark College
Putney Vermont USA
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Hi Lillie,
Our wider ITS support group lends 500gb of server space on LAN for file
repository accessible from all PCs on campus.
1/LLC space contains one folder with course material (audio-video-any doc format
really) which is restricted of access to students enrolled in the specific
course and their instructors only (for copyright reasons) and READ only. I use a
simple VB script to give student permissions to access specific course folder at
the beginning of each term. Teachers can add files to their folder but I prefer
that they go through me.
2/Our server space also has a second folder containing student recordings be it
audio and video, that teachers access from their staff PC/Mac. The folder is
hidden from prying eyes, is WRITE and READ only and can only be accessed through
our SL lab software Sony Soloist, that is mapped for that purpose. Students can
only use that option on our cameras on campus ; they cannot save anything else
using any other software.
Since most PCs are now equipped with a DVD writer, your teacher(s) could burn a
DVD-RW with all students files for marking at home and erase when done. That is
what we do here for all our languages.
This might be a bit to restrictive to you if students record their video at
home, in which case the other option would be to use http://www.sendspace.com or
any similar online file exchange space. Your university IT support should have
RMFT - repliWeb Managed FileTransfer -, it is used to share large files, and is
essential for research (like raw data for e.g.).
I hope this helps!
Edith Paillat
Language Learning Centre
Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/about/projects.aspx
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Please tell us more about the environment and the speed problems. I
just did a test using my 5 year old Mac, and fairly slow (24x) CD-RW
media. I copied a 42 MB file to the disc. The data burned, verified,
and the CD mounted on the desktop in one minute and 27 seconds. It
took me one minute and seven seconds to transfer the file from one
computer to another over our "Eithernet" network (it's either fast or
slow, depending on the network traffic load. 100-base T Ethernet). It
sounds like I'm missing something. 40 megs is a small file for video.
I'm wondering if the delay is in the video compression stage of the
process. Please give us more details about these problems.
Derek
Derek Roff
Language Learning Center
Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
Internet: [log in to unmask]
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Lillie,
Would it be possible for each of your professors provide you with a
small USB thumb drive, onto which their students could copy their
projects?
Ryan
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UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management
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