Google and Video

Summary

With your Google account, you have unlimited storage to Google Video - sweet....;-) Students do as well - can anyone say digital portfolios of videos/podcasts? How about teacher lectures/lessons? Similar to where we're heading with pTUNE, but differences described below.


Directions

• video.google.com
• click on video and/or upload your video link
• log in with google credentials
• browse button to find your ".mp4" file (use QuickTime Pro [need Pro version] to open ".mov" file made from Keynote, iMovie, etc. and converted to ".mp4")
• give title, description, genre, language, select view access (I chose unlisted to avoid searches finding it, but ??)
• accept terms and conditions
• upload file (time depends on file size, network speed, server busy times, etc.), but a few minutes
• takes from a few minutes to several hours to convert the ".mp4" to Flash, but you can wait a few, or log back in with above instructions, and if your video is ready or being processed, you'll see what's up in the administration area of this process.
• if "Live", then email the link to yourself, others, copy the link and paste it on a web page, etc.
• the real cool part is click the "embed code", copy and paste the code right into a web page in ConnectMe (see below examples)
• publishing with "embed code" on a ConnectMe web page avoids wandering student eyes that could be triggered by the google interface to view the video.

My Examples

http://cmweb.pvschools.net/~jbillings/videos/monopole.html
(video shot with a camera phone and uploaded)

http://cmweb.pvschools.net/~jbillings/videos/HTHlecture.html
(made with QuickTime - I need to remember bigger font sizes)


Issues

• Conversion to Flash lacks some video quality, so we will continue to pursue pTUNE (which can upload higher quality), but Flash is network friendly and quicker downloads.
• Please don't introduce to students yet - want to see all of our postings herein, discuss with OC3, TAC, Cabinet, etc..
• Eventually, I will put a link straight to the login of video upload, on the Start Page of pvlearners.net. This would at least avoid having to pick up some thumbnails of any potentially inappropriate videos during this process. I've found some good stuff on Google Video - a lot less inappropriate stuff than what is on YouTube, so it might be a little safer to explore this application.

Potential is big, so try a few and let me know how I can help and give me feedback here with a post, please....Jeff.....