With the Kaltura integration into Moodle, it’s easy for students to create and upload their own videos. These could be used to record presentations or screencast videos, to add video comments or VLOGs (video blogs), to conduct interviews, etc. You can either provide a forum for students to post videos to, or create a Media Assignment if…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Get Your Students Creating Videos
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#UPTechTip: Trim or Clip Your MediaSpace Video With the New Editor
MediaSpace has long been a great way to upload and share your multimedia at UP. Many instructors, students, and staff have uploaded thousands of hours of streaming video content for teaching, learning, and sharing. But, once your video was up on MediaSpace, there wasn’t much more you could do with it. Until Now! With the…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Trim or Clip Your MediaSpace Video With the New Editor
#UPTechTip: Embed Video into a PowerPoint
Need to show a video as a part of your slides? Closing PowerPoint and linking out to YouTube can break the flow of your presentation, or worse: if you are in “Presenter Mode” you may find the video starts playing back on your podium or laptop screen, but not on the presentation screen. Awkward! You can…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Embed Video into a PowerPoint
Beating the Snow With Tech
Let’s face it: In Portland, we’re very used to mild winters. When freezing temperatures bring snow and icy roads, those who commute tend to go into what could politely be called “panic mode”. When Old Man Winter strikes during the last two weeks of a term, “panic mode” is not an option. Knowing what technology…Continue Reading Beating the Snow With Tech
UP Tech Tip: Share MediaSpace to Social Media Sites
At UP, we’re fortunate to have MediaSpace, which is a great video streaming and sharing site. It’s the home for our academic and course videos and is easy to manage access to for students or embed into Moodle courses. But sometimes we have video assets we want to share far and wide, on social media…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Share MediaSpace to Social Media Sites
Interactive Video in Education – 2016 Edition
Last year, one of the first posts I wrote for the TL site was as a summary of Kaltura, Inc’s whitepaper on the state of video in the education space. Kaltura is back at it again in 2016, this time with a much more in-depth, 45-page report. While I think it’s important to bear in mind…Continue Reading Interactive Video in Education – 2016 Edition