For the past year we've been piloting Kaltura, a web-based video authoring platform, with a handful of classes at Penn State. Up to now, students and faculty would access this service via the Media Commons website. Once they were ready to share their work, they would either point a link to the MC site or grab some embed code and post it to their blogs. The latter is especially important if they needed to reflect on their work, cite sources, or enable comments to encourage collaboration.
The Blogs at Penn State is an incredibly powerful publishing platform, and is actually quite flexible and extensible. One of my goals in designing educational technology is to make sure the technology is easy and minimal. So we decided to remove quite a few steps from the Kaltura workflow, and just integrate it directly into the blog system. The result is... well, I think it's very cool. But see for yourself:
(or get text directions here)
Now that this integration work is complete, it should be pretty easy to add Kaltura to other systems around Penn State. One nice feature is that this all still hosted on the Media Commons site (although that's transparent to the user), so other sites that integrate Kaltura can share one central media library, and users can move around at will (i.e. create videos in ANGEL and post to their Blogs, or vice versa).
To enable this functionality, just login to the blog dashboard, go to Tools>Plugins>Penn State Kaltura Plugin>Settings and check Use Kaltura in Blog. Please note this is a beta service, so everything might not work perfectly (for instance, this is not working on IE at the moment).
Enjoy!
The Blogs at Penn State is an incredibly powerful publishing platform, and is actually quite flexible and extensible. One of my goals in designing educational technology is to make sure the technology is easy and minimal. So we decided to remove quite a few steps from the Kaltura workflow, and just integrate it directly into the blog system. The result is... well, I think it's very cool. But see for yourself:
(or get text directions here)Now that this integration work is complete, it should be pretty easy to add Kaltura to other systems around Penn State. One nice feature is that this all still hosted on the Media Commons site (although that's transparent to the user), so other sites that integrate Kaltura can share one central media library, and users can move around at will (i.e. create videos in ANGEL and post to their Blogs, or vice versa).
To enable this functionality, just login to the blog dashboard, go to Tools>Plugins>Penn State Kaltura Plugin>Settings and check Use Kaltura in Blog. Please note this is a beta service, so everything might not work perfectly (for instance, this is not working on IE at the moment).
Enjoy!
Amazing how well it works. Makes the Blogs at PSU a text, image, audio, and video authoring platform. I knew we could pull it off, but I am really thrilled with how elegant it is.
This looks fantastic! And it looks like there's been some great improvements in the Kaltura editing software since I last used it in April. Great stuff!