October Meeting Recording

If you were unable to attend the October 24 Media Management meeting, please see here for the recording.

Aug 24 Meeting Recording and Oct Meeting Notice

During the last Media Management meeting we covered:

- Google Hangouts On Air
- MediaSpace 4.0 Update
- Future MMI Group meetings
- Video/Media Training
- Development of Video Centered Applications

To view a recording of the event, please click on this link.

The next meeting will take place on October 24 from 1 - 2 p.m. in 101 Walter Library. UMConnect will be available as well: umconnect.umn.edu/mmigroup.


Agenda items:
 - Community of Practice overview
 - Future of Media Tools
 - Distribution Options for Classroom Capture (Camtasia Relay) Recordings
 - Lynda.com update

July 2012 Monthly Update Meeting

As OIT moves to a more service and customer centered delivery model, I am looking for ways to deliver information pertaining to the 'Video and Conferencing Service' to our community.  I will need your help in determining the best way to do that.  Please feel free to email video@umn.edu with suggestions or post comments below with ideas.

This month, we're exploring lots of updates with Kaltura.  We are working hard to close the feature gaps between Kaltura and Media Mill.  One of the major milestones that will bring us closer is the launch of Mediaspace - or as Kaltura likes to say 'YouTube On Campus'.  Look for more information to come as we get closer to launching that application later this summer and early Fall.

Today at the meeting, we also discussed the possibility of activating YouTube and Google Hangouts - On Air.  I would be interested in hearing some community feedback regarding this possibility.  I will be sharing your feedback with the Google steering committee this week as we huddle over this decision.

User Group Meeting - May 2012

Great meeting today!  Thank you everyone for attending online or in-person.  Short meeting today covering:

• Moodle integration discussion around multiple uploading
• Training group is developing a 'demystifying Kaltura' video
• Mobile/Moodle bug feedback
• Demonstration of new contribution wizard.  Please test this out in the test.moodle2.umn.edu environment and send your feedback to mikew@umn.edu - try this at home please as this is bandwidth dependent
• OIT Video is changing service offerings and name (Video and Conferencing Services) as part of the overall OIT re-organization.
• No June meeting.  We are waiting for the 'Falcon' release of Kaltura which closes most of the feature gaps between Kaltura and Media Mill.  This version will allow us to start the migration process later this fall.

You can watch todays meeting by clicking here!

Today we launch. First stop, Moodle.

Team,

It's been a long time coming but we finally launched our new media management platform, Kaltura today.  Our first stop, Moodle.  Starting today, all courses in Moodle will be have access to Kaltura via the resources and activities area.  See video below demonstrating this.




Example of our new player that will be available in Moodle (be sure to check out the closed captioning, upper-right hand corner):

To all our very patient users I want to say thank you.  You provided us with tons on input and direction for this service.  Without you, we wouldn't be where we are today.  Lots of exciting stuff coming out this next academic year.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact: mikew@umn.edu

Copyright/IP Notice

We are developing a copyright/IP notice that will act much like the Turnitin plugin within the Moodle platform.  We are modeling the language after the UMedia archive site as this language has already been approved by OGC.  Why re-invent the legal wheels :)  As with the other two policies below we would like your comment on this language.  We tried to make it fairly easy to read with not so much legal-jargon.

Copyright/IP statement for the Media Management Service

Developer API Access

Again, we would like your input moving forward regarding departments accessing the rich API set that Kaltura offers.  Here is the following policy and procedure for your comment.  Final versions will be posted to the oit.umn.edu/media-management website.

Developer API Access

Media Retention Policy - Request for Comment

Going to try something new.  Since I personally value community input, I created a Google document with a rough start to a media retention policy.  I would like you to comment on sections of the policy you feel need changing or add sections.  These comments will be reviewed and will be acted on one way or another.

Here is the link to view and comment:

Link to Media Retention Policy Draft

If this works well, I will start adding more for your input.  If this doesn't work we will find additional avenues for your voice to be heard.

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Mike Williams
Project Lead for Media Management Project
UMN