David Ernst, Ph.D., Brad Hosack
University of Minnesota, Academic Technology Services
WebANT: http://ant.umn.edu/ developed by them at Minn.
Online video is increasing in HigherEd. Easier to distribute, sufficient bandwith, easier processing, content delivery outside of class.
Why did they develop it?
* online courses choosing video to deliver their content – wanted the classes to be more than just uploaded videos. Wanted the videos to have more meaning.
* face-to-face speech course that recored student’s speeches for assessment
Video ANT doesn’t upload or store video. The video must already be on the web. At Minnesota they use Media Mill. It pulls in live the video while you’re watching it then you can annotate it. The annotation file holds the text and the timestamp. The annotation is housed on the Minnesota server but they have it open for public use.
Uses:
Student’s give/tape a speech. They then watch it and type in their annotations. These annotations are text only. When the video reaches a certain point the appropriate annotation is highlighted. The student’s can self-assess or peer-review. This is similar to VoiceThread. You can have multiple people asssess a video, for example, self, peer, and instructor.
Teacher Ed classroom evaluation.
Not 508 compliant. It’s flash with an xml backend but right now a reader will not read it.
How to use it:
- start with a URL of an online movie (FLV or MOV if compressed to H.264).
- scrub to the proper place in the video.
- press the comment button and type in the annotation.
- you can move the annotations by grabbing the timeline pins and moving them.
- when done there are three different versions created and emailed to you: one is a view only link (watch only), two is annotatable/editable (for peer review), three is for embedding in an LMS or webpage and it is not editable.
Question:
- Are the instructor comments available to everyone? Yes, the original vision was to make it as open as possible. Could have some ramifications for FERPA maybe. The way around this would be to have the instructor annotate the video on a new URL that only the student knows. This would help protect against a FERPA violation.
- Any possibility to add simple html? Not sure yet.
- Does it work with streamed videos? He doesn’t think so.
Thoughts on the presentation:
It’s a home-grown product made to work at UM so it’s not as easy to use for everyone else. In addition they aren’t sure how long it will be free. It’s useful but I’m not sure it’s any better than VoiceThread. In addition, there are no drawing abililities. So you can’t point out anything on the video.
MRT at Carnegie Foundation.org has about 15 tools that are similar that we should look at. http://mrt.carnegiefoundation.org
Tags: educause2008 by benignim
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