thinking creatively with video: mycat does not pussyfoot about
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A Tool to Think Creatively About Video
MyCAT does not pussy foot around
http://mycat.bcu.ac.uk @BCUCELT
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TELT Ecosystem at BCU
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Situational Awareness ?
● Mixed bag for Creative Video Capture, Lectures and
Webinar...ing
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Motivations
● Incentivise teaching staff to produce accessible, usable,
media-rich material
● Overcome technical barriers related to the publishing of
online videos
● Quick prototyping of multimedia learning material
● Share multimedia assets within the institution and
outside
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Solution
● Easy upload of media assets
● Automation (i.e. video transcoding & file storage)
● Drag-and-drop interface and quick web publishing
● Asset (media) management and default institutional
sharing
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Video transcoding
Video files storage
Video meta-tag
Industry Standards e.g. IMS,
Scorm, OAI-PMH
Background Upload
through API
File from
Reference
File Management Search,
Upload through API to
repository
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Additional features
● Page layouts
● WYSIWYG editor
● Multi-page resource
● Linear VS Non-linear navigation
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MyCAT
Building a learning resource
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User Interface (UI) - Personal Hub@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Project Editor@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Changing Layout@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Changing Layout@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Changing Layout@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Adding Content@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Adding Content@BCUCELT
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MyCAT’s UI - Widgets@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Widgets@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Widgets@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Widgets@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Widgets@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Adding Pages@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Adding Video@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Adding Video@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Project Settings@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Project Settings@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Saving & Previewing Project@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Publishing & Exporting Project@BCUCELT
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User Interface (UI) - Publishing & Exporting Project@BCUCELT
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MyCAT
http://mycat.bcu.ac.uk/request/player&pid=1753
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MyCAT - Branching Videos
http://mycat.bcu.ac.uk/request/player&pid=1755
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Obstacles
● Time constraints
● Cultural resistance to “share” learning materials
● Technology challenges and software (im)maturity
● Teaching staff responsible to provide alternative
accessible material
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What’s Next?
● Workflow to automate video lecture recording, transcript
generation, chapterization and keyword extraction
● Ad-hoc video lecture project mobile-first template in
MyCAT v2, with Analytics (xAPI)
● University policy on video lectures informed by research
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Questions?
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