Streaming and downloading video for your online course

I have been helping several lecturers with linking material to Blackboard — I can help with items on ereserve, journal articles, and general library information.

I have mentioned previously that we are having a trial of streaming video. This is limited to on-campus access at the moment so our multimedia people have also started making video also available as downloadable files linked into your course on the DLS.

For copyright reasons we can only do this for material that is recorded by our Off-Air Television Recording Service. We have started doing this for the course ‘Contexts for New Learning’ where we will be making available episodes of ‘Ugly Betty’ and the documentary ‘Wirriya small boy’.

This is all still part of the trial but if you are interested, let me know.

Informit TV news database on trial

The Library currently has a trial of a unique resource of interest to educators. Informit’s TVNews indexes and provides video footage of Australian television news and current affairs items from free-to air television. It also contains some documentary material from programs like Australian Story and The Cutting Edge. Each entry contains subject headings and a brief synopsis. The database is updated daily and each evening’s broadcasts are usually available the next morning.

Video to your desktop – pilot project

You might know that the Library makes off-air recordings from the ABC and SBS under Part VA of the Copyright Act. Staff members are able to request the Library to record upcoming programs. (The EnhanceTV website provides useful information and resources on educational television programs).

The Library has now commenced a pilot  of making off-air recordings from the AV collection available as streaming video.