Hi Mary, Thanks for your feedback and vote to support embedding video. I agree --- videos are powerful teaching tools and our community commitment to editable resources may trigger some interesting reuse scenarios.
Cheers Wayne On Feb 19, 2:39 pm, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > I would find embedding videos useful. they are such a strong teaching > meduim. Blip tv sounds like a via solution from what I understood of your > explanation. I would vote to proceed with this worthy project. > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > In the past we've received requests from many community members to > > implement the functionality to embed links to video hosted on third party > > sites (eg Youtube, BlipTV Vimeo etc). Now that WikiEducator is hosted > > independently by the OER Foundation, we have more flexibility and autonomy > > to take a community decision concerning on third party video. > > > - Do WikiEducators want the ability to embed links to video clips? > > - What is the best way for us to take this decision? > > - Should we have a trial period to see how this works? > > > We need and invite your feedback -- so please post your replies to this > > list. We will consider all feedback posted over the next two weeks, before > > deciding on the next steps. Apology for the long email -- but I provide some > > discussion points below. Third party video is not a simple matter when it > > comes to the values and meaning of freedom as interpreted by our community > > values. > > > *Discussion* > > > Embedding video is not a simple question of turning a switch to enable > > links to third party hosted video. Technically speaking, this is relatively > > easy to achieve. However, there are many issues associated with digital > > video and our core values of the WikiEducator project which we need to > > consider, most notably the essential freedoms. > > > WE subscribe to the free cultural works definition and WE need to find a > > solution which aligns with what we believe as a community OER project. I've > > been sound boarding a few ideas with colleagues and friends and would > > appreciate your input and feedback on a few baseline requirements and > > suggestions. > > > - *Licensing.* We must be able to identify and search for > > appropriately licensed video content. This is to ensure that video > > content > > we embed adheres to the requirements of the definition of free cultural > > works. In practice this means we can only use video hosting sites which > > clearly tag their video content with the relevant copyright license as > > well > > as corresponding search functionality to identify resources which are > > appropriately licensed (eg. CC-0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GFDL and the public > > domain declaration), Therefore, Youtube (for example) would not meet > > this > > requirement as their existing conditions of service would not enable the > > implementation of license tagging. Currently WIkiEducator users would > > not be > > able to differentiate openly licensed videos from all rights reserved > > content. However, BlipTV allows users to choose from a number of > > *Creative > > Commons* licenses to apply to their work, and videos are searchable by > > license. This would enable WIkiEducators to use the Creative Commons > > search > > (http://search.creativecommons.org/) facility to easily identify > > appropriately licensed video on BlipTV. > > - *Open file formats. *This is a requirement to ensure that our content > > is stored and accessible in formats which can be edited using free/open > > source software. In addition this means that source files should be > > available for download. No WikiEducator should be forced to purchase a > > license for non-free software in order to remix and create a derivative > > work > > from our site. Most video sites (with the exception, for instance, of the > > Wikimedia Commons) encode video for web delivery using the Flash Video > > Format (flv) which is a proprietary file format. BlipTV provide a service > > for their registered users who also have an account with the Internet > > Archive (http://blip.tv/prefs/archiveorg/). In short this facility > > enables archiving of downloadable video files including the open file > > format > > (ogg Theora). Therefore, WikiEducator users who upload video files to > > BlipTV > > could register for the Internet Archive service making it easier for > > educators to download video in the formats of their choice for remix > > purposes. However, this feature would not solve the problem of open file > > formats for the video uploaded by BlipTV users who do not register for > > the > > Internet Archive service. Fortunately BlipTV provides the functionality > > to > > download the video files, even though these are generally supplied in the > > flv (proprietary file format). The open source FFmpeg project ( > > http://www.ffmpeg.org/) provides tools to convert flv files into open > > file formats. Therefore, all WikiEducator would have access to free > > software > > tools for remixing source video, thus meeting the requirements of the > > free > > cultural works definition. > > > Therefore the BlipTV hosting site would provide a service which aligns with > > our values. There are also Mediawiki wiki extensions available for embedding > > BlipTV video on WikiEducator pages. > > > Pending a positive assessment of the stability and security of the BlipTV > > extensions for WikiEducator -- Would the community consider moving forward > > with providing capability for embedding BlipTV video on the WikiEducator > > site along the lines suggested above? > > > Thoughts? > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > -- > > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > > Director, > > International Centre for Open Education, > > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator,www.wikieducator.org > > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > > User Page:http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > > Skype: WGMNZ1 > > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > > To visit wikieducator:http://www.wikieducator.org > > To visit the discussion forum:http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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