Streamfolio
September 1, 2009 by alexanderhayes · 3 Comments
After a years deliberation and a hundred differing ways to say the same thing as a web entity, we at EDUPOV have decided on a term to describe our streamed video portfolio platform which has quietly launched itself in beta-1.0 form.
The brand we have decided to name as Streamfolio™
In many discussions over the last five years Geoff Lubich has been the foundation creator of a product to conceptually provide users with:
a personal live streaming, viewing, broadcasting, recording, shareable video portfolio accessible anywhere online……..
Leo has always been quick to add that the development build bigger picture includes:
- anywhere login via the Streamfolio™ widget
- multi-ID authentication
- mobile access | upload app.
- perpetual licence for plug | play
- leading LMS , CMS and eportfolio integration via Streamfolio™ plugin
- premium multi-format output | input encoder
I am of the opinion ( reason for NZ trip ) that Streamfolio™ has natural extension into:
- virtual rez. screening asset integration
- Flash ad. campaigning
- subscription augmentation playback
- geo-informational encoder
As I sit quietly here at Sydney airport awaiting my flight to Auckland I no longer have to imagine what has transpired over a years hard slog and five years of multi-modal conversations to bring about EDUPOV and Streamfolio™
I am also very confident that the next steps forward are indeed cloud driven with international virtual audiences.
Crunching Magento
February 5, 2009 by alexanderhayes · 2 Comments
It’s late again and here I am crunching data in the http://shop.edupov.com
We are using Magento for the backend of the shop and it’s a little tricky but once you got your head around how it’s categorized and how it operates it is a smooth CRM of sorts.
I’ve been updating the ‘tags’ feature and beefing out the EDUPOV Terms & Conditions page which is a learning curve in it’s own right. The shop is almost functional…..just need to get the payment gateway working which is always tricky.
A long way from the pedagogy conversation. Kim Flintoff however does articulate the transition well….far better than I’ll ever have time to do so.
We are almost at trading status as a company with the formation of the Board of Directors, some legal jargon and lots of money out the door to register our entity.
I’m looking forward to my lion share of the $1 per fortnight we will bring in as wages over the first 6 months.
It’s bringing out the best in us.
Luckily we’ve grown up analogue & digital.
Moodle : Synopsis For Choice
February 5, 2009 by alexanderhayes · 2 Comments
I was asked today why EDUPOV is “preferencing” the use of Moodle over that of other proprietary LMS solutions. Rather than enter the what/if debate I’m purposing my choice as;
“…..Moodle provides users with a robust support forum, a graphically and visually considerate user interface, a simplicity of navigation and a personable profile driven working environment.
Moodle provides organizations / business with a strong statistical data driven reporting schedule, a secure and adaptable developers environment, a hierarchical and easily managed administration interface and a secure backup and scheduling core for hosts. Most importantly, Moodle provides educators and trainers with a opportunity to design and implement an instructional, interactive and asset rich learning environment scaffolding users inherent and intuitive knowledge of ICT’s whilst complementing existing web 2.0 technologies in a modular constructivist mode of learning development….”
Why would I choose anything else ?
I’m very happy with a growing robust community of developers at core and avid and extensible ranges to where it ( the core platform ) can be applied.
Whats your thoughts ?
POV Broadcaster : Up and Running
February 5, 2009 by alexanderhayes · 6 Comments
Imagine as a student in a Moodle course being able to title, describe and save either a transmission or a broadcast and then retrieve it for later view, re-use or export it as evidence for RPL or assessment-on-the-fly.
From within the Moodle course….or connected through their own Mahara e-portfolio.
Anytime, anywhere and connected using a USB driven camera peripheral of any description.
Perhaps that’s just too cryptic.
So, no matter how you think of it then imagine a student or client in the workplace who has access to the internet and the ability to in some way hook up a camera that allowed the assessor to “see” what they were doing from a remote distance, for it to be recordable and retreivable and perhaps even re-usable / re-playable.
It’s not only possible …it’s affordable…..unlike countless other web solutions that give the either /or but not both or indeed easily mobilize the solution with adequate bandwidth to boot from.
Integrated and scaffolded by it’s proximity to the supporting documentation of the course.
Too good to be true ?
Leo Gaggl has been working hard on ensuring that the full duplex audio / video capacity for the EDUPOV premium plugin is well on it’s way to a reality.
As he has the stand-alone EDUPOV player / viewer.
So, by mid June I’m predicting we’d have a suite of three core working examples to showcase in Wollongong….provided Jayne Batchelor and Vicki Marchant were still up to hosting the showcase event as we have discussed.
I’ll leave it with them both to contemplate and respond, as my promise was to realize this mini-conference with REAL and tangible outputs, affordable, focused and promoting their own active use of POV with staff and students at TLI.
Looking forward to their replies and you as the reader giving us feedback as to whether you’d like to attend the AUPOV 2009 in Wollongong, Sydney Australia say around mid June / July ……….as either presenter or as a delegate.