Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Re: free/cheap video hosting

YouTube has recently improved their private video settings too, so that you
could use Unlisted videos -- anyone with the link can view them, but their
aren't findable on the site. -- S

Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323) 638-7384


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Ann Hamel <ann.hamel@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure if this meets all the requirements, but if you create a YouTube
> Account that is private and then hand out the generic username and p/w to
> parents and students you could use that for videos under 10 minutes long.
> -Ann
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Laura Loftus <lchase@gds.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Need some emergency advice for a well-intended project that may be going
> > awry.
> >
> > Here's the deal: We have around 75 4-6 minute .mov and .wmv files that
> > were created by our 8th graders for a history project. My original plan
> > was to create a conference in FirstClass or to upload them to Blackboard
> > so that the videos would be both secure and viewable by all the students
> > in the 8th grade.
> >
> > Neither of these options is proving to be particularly viable for what
> now
> > seem to be fairly obvious reasons (file size, upload time, limits on
> > available space on servers, complication on home computers when students
> > download the files and so on).
> >
> > So, can anyone recommend a free (or cheap) site that will allow me to
> > upload all these videos and password protect them? They will only need to
> > be up for about 2 weeks although I can see an ongoing need for something
> > like this in the future.
> >
> > The files are rolling in today, so I need something that I can start
> > uploading to . . . well . . . today. *glup*
> >
> > Laura Loftus
> > Educational Technology Specialist
> > lloftus@gds.org
> > (202) 295-6191
> >
> > Georgetown Day School
> > 4530 MacArthur Boulevard, NW
> > Washington DC 20007
> > http://www.gds.org
> >
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