moleTV?

Delivering streaming video media safely and securly via your College or Uni learning environment has just got easier. Read on. The Learning and Skills Network has introduced MoLeTV which will be targeted primarily to colleges in England, under the auspices of the Learning and Skills Council. Find other Molenet resources including the new mobile technologies resources on the molenet site.

Use of this new digital media site enables registered users to upload media in most of the common formats. 'Uploaders' are able to edit and delete their content at any time.

What are the benefits of using this service?

• Promotion of curriculum content and sharing good practice
• media automatically 'streams'
• often a smaller file size
• video is converted to a variety of formats and is accessible to VLE's such as Moodle, websites, mobile devices and PDAs using the embed code and/or download links as appropriate.
• is curriculum relevant
• is primarily UK based resources
• is divided into Learning and Skills Council (LSC) categories
• saves uploading media to your college servers
• saves on back-up time for large files
• embeds as flash media and saves trouble with plug-ins for other formats cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Macintosh)
• helps stop staff uploading large AVI files to your server! (although only AVIs with specific codecs will convert)
• has RSS feeds
• will link to iTunes
• can upload podcasts and vodcasts

The website is now available at http://www.moletv.org.uk. Users can create an account on the site (login area) which will allow them to upload media.

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Did you know that there is also an excellence gateway TV "channel"? Well here's an example http://excellence.qia.org.uk/page.aspx?o=170188

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I prefer to use the free service vimeo to host and stream my vodcasts. It's excellent quality, and does not compress the video as much as Youtube does. Resulting in a higher quality video clip. Can't always be sure of the quality of delivery tho?

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Not strictly TV, but nearly! There are a number of brilliant, free, online events for teaching and learning with technology being hosted by RSC Scotland South West over the next few weeks. I have been given permission to promote the events below to the West Midlands learning providers. All you need is a web browser to get involved - it's all ONLINE.

17th February 2009 - RSCtv: Using Blogs for teaching and learning

Login to RSCtv to find out more about blogging and how it can be applied to learning and teaching. http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm#Feb17

3rd March 2009 - RSCtv: Using Voting Systems for teaching and learning
It will focus how creating stand-alone tests, adding interaction to presentations, and how they can be used to analyse student understanding. http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm#Mar03

31st March 2009 - RSCtv: Mobile Technologies for teaching and learning
This RSCtv session will outline advantages to be gained, the possibilities for the application of mobile technologies for Learning & Teaching and will also highlight some of the issues that need consideration by learning institutions. http://www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm#Mar31