[IAEP] Math on Web

[Gerald Ardito]

Iago,

Thanks for this.
Gerald

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:18 AM, itoral <itoral at igalia.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:08:14 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
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> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 17:57, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com>
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> >> Caroline,
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> >> You do a good job outlining the problem.
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> >> Even with bandwidth, the Browse activity is just not that great (at
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> >> least on
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> >> the XOs) for streaming video.
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> > An activity based on Grilo could be optimized for this use case:
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> > http://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2010/02/10/grilo/
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> Grilo would not help with the bandwidth problems as much as
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> it would help with allowing teachers organize the multimedia
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> contents and simplifying the development of an activity
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> focused on providing structured multimedia content to
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> students.
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> Grilo abstracts the location of the actual video feeds,
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> which could then be stored on Youtube, some local
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> streaming server, on a network share, usb storage,...
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> anywhere, this would provide quite a lot of flexibility
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> to teachers. Also, activity developers would not have
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> to care about where the video file really is.
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> Teachers would be able to organize the contents they are
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> interested in so that this multimedia content can be browsed
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> easily both by teachers and students. Also, teachers
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> would be able to add metadata to the video files (again,
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> no matter where the actual file lives), like summaries
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> of the contents, hints to understand the video, additional
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> work or other related content. All this information could
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> then be grabbed by an activity and present it to the
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> student appropriately, enriching the learning
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> experience.
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> Iago
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