Digital Open Video in Education - a Welcome note

For classes I teach, I need a free, online video editor web app than can be shared among multiple users and requires no installation of clients, plugins or other installs. Does kaltura do this?

Hi Rick,

You can deploy a KalturaCE installation (next week we'll release a new version with support for Windows/Linux64/Mac..) and use the KAE or KSE for the editor.

Owwwwwww... Exciting!

I have found that there is a way to collaboratively create and edit video from Kaltura online, by using their product through WikiEducator. I created a little description of how to do it on the following site:

http://collaborativevideo.weebly.com/

If there is a better way to do this let me know. I am hoping to use this online video editor in my elementary technology classroom. Possibly I could have a project in which students from across the state add information about landmarks and destinations to have an ongoing video about our state.

Hi Jaime,

Thanks for sharing.

There are in fact better ways of achieving this, for example - installing WordPress or Drupal with a Kaltura (wordpress / drupal) extension.
The WikiEducator version is an old deployment, and you can't control the environment - by installing wordpress or drupal and using an extension you can create and own the environment and use the latest version of the tools.

Hi Kalturian,

regarding "Education, Universities, and e-learning" it would be great if Kaltura would playback flash (SWF) based presentations too, cause most educational content like thesis, papers etc. is based on documents like Powerpoint and Word exported to PDF.

Do you have this issue/feature on your roadmap? :)

BR, Peer

Hi,

Definitely on our roadmap. Thanks!

Hi IdoSet,

thanks for your reply.
I'm really happy to hear this! :)

In the same context someone told me today that all content that will be published via a self(!)-hosted KalturaCE platform is underlying the CC Share-Alike license. Is this true? ... Or is every "provider" of a self-hosted KalturaCE platform free of chosing its own license for the submitted content?

I think, expecially regarding scientific publishing in an University environment this CC SA will most likely conflict to other existing license agreements which tends to preserve the rights of the IP owner, i.e. the author.

So, is a University free to chose its own license for the submitted content, which should be published / shared probably only to a closed target group and not to the public, while running a KalturaCE platform on own University servers?

BR, Peer

Hi,

Every provider is free to choose his own license for the submitted content and suit it for his own needs.

I just wanted to offer up that I am beginning a pilot to use Kaltura in a few classes at Penn State this coming semester (Fall '09). I work in the University's central educational technology group. So if any of you are thinking of or already doing something similar, I'd love to hear from you.

Please don't forget to keep us all updated here as well!

Hey

I have just found out about kaltura and it seems very cool.

We have a videosharing platform for pupils and I was wondering if your video editor could be integrated with our platform ??

Is Kaltura open source or how are the conditions.

We have used another open source platform moviemasher to make a little editor inveriment on oour site - but your editor looks a lot more proff.

Your subtitle widget also looks cool, but can the things be integrated in our running system. Take a look at our site here: www.videndel.dk

Hope to get some input

Kind regards marcus

Hi,

Welcome!

Yes, Kaltura is open source - you can browse through the projects on this site and download the complete source.

Integrating to other environment may require more work on your side, but feel free to use the forums, ask questions and later contribute to the community!

Are you using a CMS or custom application you developed? if you use wordpress, drupal, joomla, etc. look through the projects page for your CMS extension - this will ease your integration.
If you do get to create custom integration to your application, look at the api_v3 client library in your programming language, this again will ease the work by providing a code base ready to work with and build on top instead of directly calling HTTP requests.

I am working on a eduction based project which also looks to interweave Kaltura with mobile, ESL and Moodle, would love to chat in more detail with yourself e okul and others who are looking at Education based projects. Happy to share common goals workloads (learn together!)

Hi,
We have been using Kaltura in our Drupal-based sites used by students (after school) and schools. We have not had heavy use, but as we've tried to increase use of slideshows and videos we've begun to run into problems. Today, for instance, we have been unable to get a .mov file to convert. It just sits there. A shorter version went just fine. (The stuck file is 4.52 minutes long)
And in other things, we've noticed that there is a spotty conversion rate... sometimes things don't convert at all, like this movie we've tried several times to upload.
Any thoughts?

Let me preface by saying that we are very enthusiastic about Kaltura and feel that it might be a great solution for us and for the schools we work with. HOWEVER, helping teachers integrate technology into the classroom is tricky -- and time consuming -- and is totally undermined once you hit a glitch.

Thanks.

geoff

Hi IdoSet,
hi Kalturian,

one year has passed now :)
I would like to ask you whether any progress has been made in supporting media such as PDF, Word, Powerpoint ... documents.

This would be extremely usefull in the academic sector.

As you might know there is already an OpenSource FlashPaper alternative available. The document viewer is called FlexPaper:
flexpaper.devaldi.com/
code.google.com/p/flexpaper/

It would be really great if Kaltura would allow to upload and to view the above mentioned media types or a subset of these (by means of a SWF document viewer).

I am looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Peer

Hi,

As I commented on your feature request.
Using KCW and KSU and also through APIs you can upload any type of document today and the KMC will enable you to manage the files just like other media entries.
To set up a documents conversion process you'll need to build a server with relevant converters like MS Office or Open Office.

Hi,

I too am experimenting with Kaltura to see if it can provide a video streaming solution for my campus. I am at a SUNY school. We don't have Drupal or Wordpress, but still it looks promising. I am interested in Copyright protection at the moment. If I load up videos into Kaltrua, how can I be sure that copyrighted ones are only seen by students in that class? Is this where Drupal comes in?

If I embedded the code in an LMS (ANGEL) others can still see this video. Anyone doing this?

Jim G.

Hello Zohar et al. I'm interested using Kaltura with an existing FMS installation together with some CMS or LMS as a front end (for a start, Wordpress and BlackboardCE/WebCT or Moodle in the future). Kaltura looks most promising.

One requirement is to limit access (playback) of a video in an LMS to just students in one course. Based on what I see in the Moodle plug-in demo, it seems to work as I expect - I can't play the demo video unless I log in to Moodle. Can anyone confirm that?

I'm curious how Kaltura integrates with FMS - e.g. uploading a video; how are the videos files named, organized, etc. Does the Kaltura player use RTMP?

Much thanks in advance.

Roy

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One important issue in education is the requirement for subtitles for ADA compliance. I have recently been researching various ways of providing subtitles and came across a free captioning site called http://universalsubtitles.org/en. I tried their site, but apparently Kaltura's embed code does not work with their service because the .flv extension is hidden. I wrote to them and they suggested that I get in touch with Kaltura about possibly integrating their service. Any thoughts on that or a possible workaround?

Thanks,

Melinda

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In my spanish classes i use smart board almost everyday. It is easier to teach with tools that kids are confident with.

This is really great news that electronic media like digital videos are used in the learning process, it will makes easy to understand the things and concept.

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