[Year 12 IPM] AV software recommendations??

Fri Dec 8 13:29:15 EST 2006

As a cheap method of mass storage I have looked into an application
called FREENAS it is an open source network address storage device. it
runs on virtually any old PC I have used it on a 300MHZ machine with
over 1TB of storage. Great for streaming movies and media at home.
Regards
Andrew

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Friday, 8 December 2006 1:13 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] AV software recommendations??

Sad thing (not widely advertised fact) is that resources uploaded are
stored in their proprietary format, DRM by the back door. Dont get me
wrong, I fully understand the reason for this is to copy protect their
main video library collection. I am less certain why it is imposed the
format and left out an export path for copyright free school videos such
as our student productions etc. My suggestions of mp4 exports that can
play on iPods, Linux desktop client etc were politely ignored. There are
competitor products out there that provide these (enough plugs, you can
do your own detective work to dig these up) 

Our eagle eye librarian picked this up and now keeps a DVD backup copy
of any school videos and content that we own. Earlier this year, I met
some hobby enthusiasts at a local community radio station who did
themselves from 'off the shelf' components. I might explore some options
with my students for creating our own media and podcast server to better
serve our long term needs that we can use in addition to a one click
video collection (what you are really buying with their product is a
video library with an option to add content.)

I must add that I quickly discovered the reasons in the mid 1990's why I
stopped regularly nailing my students to a chair for a full period to
watch a video. Letting them shuffle the play and stop buttons on a
computer or take it home spreads out the torture. Teasing them with
appropriate 5-10  min snippets in a lesson with interruptions to think
and reflect is more interactive and fun but of course, represents more
work for teachers. :-) 

Regards Roland

On 07/12/06, Stephen Digby <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote: 

	We have trialled ClickView video storage and found it excellent
(not only
	for delivery, but for hanging teaching docs to videos,
delivering specific 
	segments on demand, allowing students to take segments home to
view
	themselves....)

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	-----Original Message-----
	From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
	Behalf Of Jenny Antcliffe 
	Sent: 07 December 2006 03:45 PM
	To: ipm at edulists.com.au
	Subject: [Year 12 IPM] AV software recommendations??

	Hello and Merry Christmas to you all, Our AV technician here is
researching 
	the delivery of DVD and/or CD and/or (shock, horror) videotaping
resources
	to individual classroom monitors, TVs and/or Whiteboards. Does
anyone have
	first hand experience of any soft/hardware they can recommend or
suggest we 
	do not touch??? regards, Jenny

	Ms Jenny Antcliffe
	Fintona Girls' School
	79 Balwyn Road
	Balwyn 3103
	Ph: 9830 1388
	Fax: 9888 5682

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