Institutions sharing video online
The practice of sharing video online is really taking off. As Karine Joly mentioned recently, institutions are beginning to have a presence in places like YouTube, a free video sharing site that’s similar to the popular photo sharing site Flickr, but for video. Some, like Multnomah, have been at it for a while.
Last week I had a conversation about video sharing with Allegheny College’s Mike Richwalsky via IM. Mike shared that he’s experimenting with ways to use video sharing platforms as a place to establish a presence for Allegheny.
Says Mike, “It’s nice to be on there with something official if someone searches for Allegheny on Google Video or YouTube.” Allegheny recently posted video from their Senior Project Celebration to Google and YouTube. The video was loaded onto YouTube May 25, 2006, and already it’s been viewed almost 80 times.
Both Google Video and YouTube provide a snippet of code you can use to embed a Flash movie in your web page, as I’ve done with Allegheny’s video from YouTube in this post.
Dan - YouTube is definitely awesome for screencasts because it will convert to streaming the AVI output from the free CamStudio. My research students also use it to document their experiments.
http://youtube.com/results?search=usefulchem&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
My main annoyance with it is that there is a 10 min limit. That means I still have to chop up my lectures to host them there.
Comment by Jean-Claude Bradley — June 26, 2006 @ 9:17 am