you compress the videos before you post them (they will get compressed by
Vimeo if you don't) then you can get more videos posted before hitting the
limit. All you need to create a Vimeo account is an email address. If you
have more than one you can upload to multiple accounts.
While you can implement basic security it's cumbersome. You'd have to get
everyone who wants to see the videos to log in and then grant them access.
There may be an easier way . . . I haven't worried about that as much since
Vimeo is not as widely known as Youtube and I'm dealing with high school
students. You can also elect to not have your videos appear in search
engines so that provides some security.
For a longer-term solution, I've had success sharing videos through a Moodle
installation on a server I pay for: bluehost.com, about $7 a month gives you
unlimited disk space. You can create accounts for the students so they can
log in from home and see their work and others as well if you want.
Hope that helps,
Mark Whipple
Instructional Technology Specialist
Prospect Hill Academy
Cambridge, MA
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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