I’ve tried using the Moodle FLV player. But the videos are not accessible/viewable when there’s a firewall. Is there a way to go around this problem if the restrictions on the firewall can’t be changed?

I read somewhere that port 1935 needs to be opened to allow streaming of videos as JW Player doesn’t do port switching. But the IT admin doesn’t want to open this port because he said it’s vulnerable to virus.

Please advise what to do.

Thanks,
JC

Your solution is an interesting one… does wink provide the player with a scroll bar? That was one of the key needs for this project.

I think, inevitably, some courses suit themselves better… but our feelings at the moment (subject to change given the slightest hint of wind) are that it’s more about the task at hand. Philosophy as easily as Biology has some basic building blocks that you simply MUST have in order to participate in the discussion. Those building blocks serve multi-leveled classrooms far better in a ‘re playable’ format. If you’ve never heard of postmodernism or photosynthesis you might have to listen to the intro lectures 5-10 times to get the gist of what is going on. Not so easy in a classroom.

As for the polishedness of it all… It depends on the subject. If you are teaching ’17th century politics’ a polished lecture that you won’t need to change very often would be fine. If you teaching ‘SL Cyber-Punk fashion Faux-Pas’ you might want to lower the production value for speed of creation. I don’t personally believe that production values are super important. Basic production values yes… polished no. It’s nice, but has to be measured against the payoff

I would be curious if some subjects are more adaptable than others to replacing in-class lectures. To waste class time (which could be used discussion) with content delivery seems ludicrous, yet there is a considerable time investment to create a polished online lecture.

Bill… showoff! thanks for the link.

The Dru-Tube is even easier than that:

http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo

Cheers,

Bill