Iago, Thanks for this. Gerald
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:18 AM, itoral <ito...@igalia.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:08:14 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@tomeuvizoso.net> > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 17:57, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ard...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > >> Caroline, > > >> > > >> You do a good job outlining the problem. > > >> Even with bandwidth, the Browse activity is just not that great (at > > >> least on > > >> the XOs) for streaming video. > > > > > > An activity based on Grilo could be optimized for this use case: > > > > > > http://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2010/02/10/grilo/ > > > > Grilo would not help with the bandwidth problems as much as > > it would help with allowing teachers organize the multimedia > > contents and simplifying the development of an activity > > focused on providing structured multimedia content to > > students. > > > > Grilo abstracts the location of the actual video feeds, > > which could then be stored on Youtube, some local > > streaming server, on a network share, usb storage,... > > anywhere, this would provide quite a lot of flexibility > > to teachers. Also, activity developers would not have > > to care about where the video file really is. > > > > Teachers would be able to organize the contents they are > > interested in so that this multimedia content can be browsed > > easily both by teachers and students. Also, teachers > > would be able to add metadata to the video files (again, > > no matter where the actual file lives), like summaries > > of the contents, hints to understand the video, additional > > work or other related content. All this information could > > then be grabbed by an activity and present it to the > > student appropriately, enriching the learning > > experience. > > > > Iago >
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