Hanan, Is it not possible to post other downloadable video format files to your website? I do this often with slides that I upload to Slideshare. It is a great place for social sharing and embedding. But its more of a distribution channel for me, so I always include a link to a copy that I have on my server or institutional repository. This is usually nothing fancy, just a dedicated directory to put the files and can link to from SlideShare. YouTube/Slideshare provides the interface pieces.
The other advantage of this, is that your web logs can track how many times those files are downloaded - which can make a nice comparison to what YouTube might tell you about views, etc. Teachers wouldn't have to do anything other than click the link for the format they wanted. Richard rjurban at illinois.edu On Jan 31, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Hanan Cohen wrote: > Hi, > > We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by > teachers in class. > > http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem > > Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that > helps teachers with downloading our videos. > > There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't > like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies. > > 1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and > Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and > update our site. > > 2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and > installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I > don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for > Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE) > > Do you know of any other option I can offer? > > Thanks, > > Hanan Cohen > Webmaster > Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem > www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
