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Digital videos on network share

2009/02/24 Leave a comment
  • interpreting mock conference speech videos are now available in an improved format
    • small file size -> portable: videos compressed to the equivalent of 360mb/hr, which makes them easily accessible
      • wherever you can access the local network (classrooms, your office, library: I uploaded all 6 videos in 2 minutes)
      • or copy to a USB stick to take home (or, in the future, go into an Weblearn e-repository)
    • widely compatible:
    • searchable teaching material eRepository (poor man’s version):
      • filename of video contains date, speaker, language
      • catalogue of videos in the spreadsheet online_resources.xls
        • students can read,
        • instructors [if you do not have access, request it from ictservicesdesk for \\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\multimedia%20student) can write (in green cells, to provide “metadata” to students for searching: topic, exercise types, difficulty rating), or else request write permission  from x4444
        • catalogue layout is subject to review. 17/04/2009: I updated, the metadata columns, following the example of SIMON, the “Shared Interpreting Materials Online” Database that ETI is developing:
        • title
          speaker
          date
          venue
          modality
          language( combination)
          (progression) level
          (particular) skill (trained)
    • have your students access the videos through the blog link here.
  • we could also collect recorded satellite tv in this form (see Spanish video sample from TVE in spreadsheet online_resources.xls – and probably should, especially if you want flexibility in adapting the materials pedagogically and reusing them -, both
Categories: assessments, erepository, Institution-is-London-Metropolitan-University, Interpreting, service-is-assessing, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-library, Spreadsheets, Translation, Videos Tags: , , , , ,

Network shares: What you need to know

2009/02/18 Leave a comment

NetworkPath

Mapped as for

Staff can

Student can

Language services use

Staff

Student

read

write

read

 write

 

\\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\londonmet departments

J:

 

yes

yes

no

no

\Humanities arts and languages (HAL)\Language_services: documentation for internal use

\\stushare_server\StuShare

K:

S:

 

 

yes

 

\Humanities, Arts and Languages\Language_Services: public documentation ( including services manual)

\\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\misres$

M:

 

 

 

 

 

 

\\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\apps07

N:

N:

 

 

 

 

 

\\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\multimedia student\mmedia\mmedia1

O: if requested

O: if requested

some(if not, request access)

some

Yes

no

\Language_services: (large) multimedia files (including teaching materials video clips)

\\lgu.ac.uk\lgu$\multimedia student\mmedia\mmedia2

 

 

some

some

no

no

 

\\datacty01\staff$

S:

 

yes

no: todo

 

 

TBA

\\venus\homes

X:

 

 

 

 

 

 

\\misres01\eureka

Y:

 

yes

no

 

 

 

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Categories: e-infrastructure, Institution-is-London-Metropolitan-University, Interpreting, Translation Tags: , ,

Help with playing videos

2009/02/13 Leave a comment
  1. Some videos require special codecs to display properly/ at all.
  2. Here is info on the H.264 codec.
  3. Often, it is best to try, instead of Windows Media Player (which may be the default player that opens when you (double)click on a video, but not be able to display it without manual configuration),
  4. the free VLC player which you can download here, if you must, and install, if you are permitted. Then right-click video, “open with”, “VLC media player”, like here:
Categories: Back office, e-infrastructure, learning-materials, Media, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, software, Translation Tags: , , , ,