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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 <lightst...@gmail.com> 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 <
>
> mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> 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
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Appreciate the feedback which I read as a vote in favour of embedding
BlipTV videos :-).
You're right, there are a plethora of tools out there on the web which
folk use every day and we should encourage this as being part of a
networked society!
Many of these tools rely on non-free software -- and that's fine. In
fact our main WikiEducator lists use Google groups (non free software)
where we could just as easily host an open source alternative.
However, when it comes to the core business of our project -- that is
collaborative creation of OER we need to think very carefully about
living out our core values. The videos themselves would constitute
teaching materials which ideally should be available for reuse,
remixing and redistribution. In accordance with our community
governance policy we need to adhere to the free cultural works
definition. Hence all the attention to the detail of licensing, access
to content in free file formats etc :-).
Cheers
Wayne
On Feb 19, 4:23 pm, Patricia Schlicht <patricia.schli...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I have been using blip.tv for quite some time and it works really well. I
> know Nellie for sure and Gladys I am sure as well. I also use TipCam to
> record on-screen instructions, if I want to get instructions across by
> demonstrating them. The same applies to YouTube, I use them all the time.
>
> Flexibility would be great to have, it enriches a learning environment and
> adds to one's point at times.
>
> We could use a Doodle Poll. I think it iswww.doodle.com
> You list your choices and people can enter their name and vote. It works
> rather well.
>
> I would have to check the licensing (smile!)
>
> I also found this link with lots of open source applications, you might want
> to take a look at. Maybe we could use some of these.
>
> http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
>
> Cheers,
> Patricia
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
>
> mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> 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
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Thanks Wayne. This idea would be especially useful for Sub-Sahara countries. More than 80% of learners may not access internet.The situation could be worse for primary and secondary schools.
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Wow -- its nearly weekend again. How time flies when you having fun!
Thanks for the contributions and reflections on the question to
consider embedding links to rich media hosted by third party sites.
We're now a working week into thinking about these questions and have
another working week to add thoughts ideas and suggestions before
considering a trial implementation.
I've summarised our progress to date in the wiki:
http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Embedding_links_to_third_party_content
Please take a look and see whether this encapsulates our thinking and
core values.
In a number of offline conversions I've had with colleagues, the
question of ancillary services / data has arisen. Ancillary data
refers to services which are not part of the core mission of
WikiEducator -- in other words data which are not OER. Examples would
include RSS feeds from blogs keeping the community up to date,
discussion forum feeds, calendar widgets to help with planning
projects.
For pragmatic reasons this would appear to be a workable compromise.
We do not have authority over the technology policies, for instance of
blogging services used by WikiEducator members. Where these feeds or
data do not constitute OERs hosted by WIkiEducator, I think this would
fall under our obligations to respect freedom of choice.
Is this a fair and reasonable interpretation? I've added a suggestion
that in the case of Ancillary I have suggested that WE would encourage
the use of service providers that provide exports in open file
formats.
Let us know what you think -- we have a working week left to consider
feedback.
Cheers
Wayne
On Feb 19, 1:26 pm, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com>
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
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I'll just vote for the use of Blip as, short term, it offers the
ability to embed a video with an approriate license, and find them via
the cc.org search tool. A bit of a band aid approach but no can say
the WE community ain't creative.
Longer term, in the (academic) video communities the considerations
are the same as the WE model = how to set up a spot in cyberspace so a
disciplinary community can get together and produce content, capture
their communications, stream them, build an archive & create a way for
global communities to find them; regardless of their preferred
language. The only real complication to the model is that they are
attempting to bring the real time stuff and (say) asynchronous stuff
to the same "publishing point" (as the comms guys will call it). E.g.
WE groups would probably like to stream events from the WE domain as a
publishing point, record it and then archive at the same (streaming)
point, which enhances the community archive while reinforcing the
domain's 'attractive' qualities.
I'm in Spain now primarily to see if the terena communities won't work
together in order to provide a solution to the global communities who
span the Trans European Research & Education Networks.
The agenda's are beginning to form up now. I'll just point you at
these three task force agendas.
Storage/Archiving. http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-storage/ws7/agenda.html
Streaming and distribution. http://www.terena.org/activities/media/meeting1/programme.html
Real Time Comms and promotion. http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-cpr/
(Thats not quite right as a description of each but, taken together,
covers the main issues). Terena is attractive to me primarily as their
communities must address the language challenge = where one domain
aggregates the raw materials in a commons in order to share them with
similar disciplinarians/different languages. (gives me a chance to
learn Espanol as well).
Hope this note doesn't distract you from just doing what you have in
mind (as if I could). Just tuck it away for future reference.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/events/fippp/index_en.htm
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Going to be looking into wikitex myself soon, and will report back
here what I find re: security.
> Cheers
> Wayne
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Look forward to hearing back on the security issues of wikitex.
Cheers
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On Mar 4, 4:22 am, Samuel Rose <samuel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
>
> <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Lilypond example @http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex is very COOL.
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Thanks for the feedback -- It seems that Blip TV is the best short-
term solution, one which meets all our requirements for open content
and free cultural works licensing.
The future re Trans European Research & Education Networks looks
promising -- I look forward to seeing this become a reality. Will you
put in a plug for decent search capabilities on rights and licensing
plus support for hosting open file format equivalents in the design
of these networks?
Cheers
Wayne
On Mar 3, 11:18 pm, simonfj <simo...@cols.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Wayne et al,
>
> I'll just vote for the use of Blip as, short term, it offers the
> ability to embed a video with an approriate license, and find them via
> the cc.org search tool. A bit of a band aid approach but no can say
> the WE community ain't creative.
>
> Longer term, in the (academic) video communities the considerations
> are the same as the WE model = how to set up a spot in cyberspace so a
> disciplinary community can get together and produce content, capture
> their communications, stream them, build an archive & create a way for
> global communities to find them; regardless of their preferred
> language. The only real complication to the model is that they are
> attempting to bring the real time stuff and (say) asynchronous stuff
> to the same "publishing point" (as the comms guys will call it). E.g.
> WE groups would probably like to stream events from the WE domain as a
> publishing point, record it and then archive at the same (streaming)
> point, which enhances the community archive while reinforcing the
> domain's 'attractive' qualities.
>
> I'm in Spain now primarily to see if the terena communities won't work
> together in order to provide a solution to the global communities who
> span the Trans European Research & Education Networks.
>
> The agenda's are beginning to form up now. I'll just point you at
> these three task force agendas.
> Storage/Archiving.http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-storage/ws7/agenda.html
> Streaming and distribution.http://www.terena.org/activities/media/meeting1/programme.html
> Real Time Comms and promotion.http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-cpr/
>
> (Thats not quite right as a description of each but, taken together,
> covers the main issues). Terena is attractive to me primarily as their
> communities must address the language challenge = where one domain
> aggregates the raw materials in a commons in order to share them with
> similar disciplinarians/different languages. (gives me a chance to
> learn Espanol as well).
>
> Hope this note doesn't distract you from just doing what you have in
> mind (as if I could). Just tuck it away for future reference.http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/events/fippp/i...
> All the best.
On Mar 4, 8:40 am, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > email: samuel.r...@gmail.comhttp://socialsynergyweb.comhttp://forwardfound.orghttp://socialsynerg...
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Thank you.
> Personally I don't have the technical knowledge to assess any security
> related issued with embedding links to external code. This is way above my
> salary level ;-)
This is within the context of an education suite with strong security
built in. Sugar for the XO laptop gives schools control over who can
share sessions with their students, and secures school servers where
lessons would reside. Access to the underlying file system and to
administrator commands can be largely open, for students of
programming and Computer Science, or completely shut down, or anything
in between. The idea is to make a fairly standard Linux distribution
at least as safe as a Java sandbox. We would only allow lessons to
call Sugar activities, including Python, Etoys Smalltalk, UCBLogo, and
Turtle Art. We will Sugarize other programming languages as needed.
Some years ago I documented security APIs for VeriSign, and the
security people at OLPC and Sugar Labs know a great deal more about
the matter than I do.
> That said -- I know that you will be able to provide us with valuable advise
> on the security issues -- have a chat with Jim. Lets see what we can do.
Certainly.
I've set myself the task of trying to encourage first the network guys
- terena people are mainly the techs from each nren in europe - and
the guys from my alma mater - http://sae.edu/en-gb/news_overview/726/News
- mainly AV guys and web designers in dozens of countries, to start
talking. These are primarily technical guys = terena for the networks
and SAE for the front end to the networks. I'm trying to figure out
how content producers, like the WE community, can be introduced into
this equation.
Content is the most important thing but most content producers won't
understand how functionality can be built into 'converging smart
networks', and networks are useless without good content. The main
change is having National REN's reconfigured to support global
(disciplinary centric) content 'prosumers' instead of national
institutions. Believe me WE (and the WMF) is at the top of my mind
when it comes to talking to NREN techs about "the producer/customer".
Give me a little time to get my feet under the table in Europe.
I'll just leave you with these 2 links to terena's conference last
year and the agenda for this year, to give yu an overview of their
community's perspectives.
http://tnc2009.terena.org/
http://tnc2010.terena.org/schedule/
I'll just mention that it's getting close to running a series of
workshops between different global spots at the same time (and
streaming, recording archiving video in the one place). So if you'd
like to factor that approach into your thinking, when those in the .eu
domain get around to working through how they will be linking up with
the Americas and Asia we can start talking about how the project will
be funded.
All the best, simon
On 19 Feb 2010, we started a discussion about links to embed video
hosted on third party sites and we agreed to keep the discussion open
for two weeks. We also discussed proposed guidelines which should
underpin our use of video in WikiEducator in accordance with our core
values.
There is considerable agreement that video content will enhance the
quality of our teaching materials. I have summarised our discussions
and thoughts on this page:
http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Embedding_links_to_third_party_content
Please take a look and see whether this summarises a consensus view of
the discussion. If not -- let us know.
I would like to table these guidelines for consideration at the next
Community Council Meeting.
Cheers
Wayne
On Feb 19, 4:23 pm, Patricia Schlicht <patricia.schli...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I have been using blip.tv for quite some time and it works really well. I
> know Nellie for sure and Gladys I am sure as well. I also use TipCam to
> record on-screen instructions, if I want to get instructions across by
> demonstrating them. The same applies to YouTube, I use them all the time.
>
> Flexibility would be great to have, it enriches a learning environment and
> adds to one's point at times.
>
> We could use a Doodle Poll. I think it iswww.doodle.com
> You list your choices and people can enter their name and vote. It works
> rather well.
>
> I would have to check the licensing (smile!)
>
> I also found this link with lots of open source applications, you might want
> to take a look at. Maybe we could use some of these.
>
> http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
>
> Cheers,
> Patricia
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
>
> mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> 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?
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> > 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.
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> > *Discussion*
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > - *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