Coming Soon to a Browser Near You
And when I say “soon”, I mean SOON.
As in, tomorrow. (Barring catastrophe, of course.)
OWC has been working very closely with Tracy Vosburgh (Director of Development and Production in University Communications) to provide a vehicle on cornell.edu that will allow us to share a growing library of video content.
Behold CornellCast!
[This is a screen grab that I took yesterday--before the content was finalized. Do not be alarmed if the page looks slightly different when launched.]We’ve (and by “we”, I mean Carrie) been doing a lot of heads down work on this page in order to turn it around on a very tight deadline. Your input is very welcome. It’s scheduled to launch at noon tomorrow (11/22).Here’s a list of things for you to ponder:
Logistics
- Does it work for you? (The streaming and the downloads. Please share your platform and browser if not.)
- Do you find the page to be user friendly?
In Principle
- What sorts of things would you like to see here? (subjects of interest, that is)
- How long should the ideal video be (how long are you willing to sit at your computer to watch)?
And, of course, your general comments and reactions are welcome. You can respond here and I’ll pass them along to Tracy and Carrie.
In other news…
- We recently launched new identity guidelines for podcasts (and vodcasts).
- Phase one of the new Diversity Section was launched last week.
- We will, of course, be streaming the Shimon Peres lecture on November 28.
Happy Thanksgiving, folks.
Lisa
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Sweet! This is amazing!
One thing that would be really cool, but that seems like it is a completely different beast than what you’ve built here, is online videos of selected lectures (e.g., Mass’s Psych 101). I mention this mostly because MIT has already put a ton of video lectures online, at their “OpenCourseWare” pages (http://ocw.mit.edu/).
On a more practical note, it’d be cool to see some of the lectures listed in the Chronicle’s events page (e.g., lectures found here: http://www.cornell.edu/events/?y=2006&m=11&d=21&show=day&timefilter=any&keywords=&category_lectures=true&category_conferences=true&category_music=true).
For streaming video, my limit is usually around 30 minutes, but I’ve watched an hour of streaming video content before. It’s much easier to watch long videos that you’re able to actually download to your computer all at once, so that going back to certain sections and fast forwarding isn’t a pain.
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