Media & Technology - Video Storage and Presenting Media in Courses - Activities

Media & Technology Introduction | Video Storage Presentations | Video Storage Activities

Practice using various video storage/presentation tools that you can use in your courses (5 to 10 minutes each)

 

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Explore a tool (10 minutes)

Pick a tool to evaluate for your own work.

Choose one from the list below, or another you’d like to explore for media storage. Ask friends and colleagues for suggestions of tools that they use. Keep in mind any pros and cons that could affect the way you use the tool.

Canvas

Canvas tutorials about storing video in the system Links to an external site.

Pros:

  • Can set permissions
  • Students can upload their own videos
  • Webcam recording is allowed

Cons:

Yuja

Tutorial from the University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences Links to an external site.: If you want to preserve Zoom recordings for future use, move them to Yuja, UK's video hosting platform

Pros:

  • Interfaces with Canvas and Zoom
  • Video files are downloadable
  • Captioning features
  • More storage file space
  • Embed videos elsewhere on your site

University of Kentucky community: Yuja is available to add to Canvas and Zoom

YouTube

How YouTube works Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

Pros:

  • Content is publicly shareable
  • Analytics for views, interactions, etc.
  • Documents and videos can be embedded in Google’s suite of products

Cons:

  • Files are external from your hosting platform and may not interface with certain features
  • Copyright concerns

 

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Local Tutorials (10 minutes)

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