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Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus

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Joseph Labrecque
Joseph Labrecque

The document summarizes discussions at the 2009 Adobe Education Leader Institute in San Jose, California about digitizing course materials. It describes two systems - CourseMedia and ALORA - that help instructors organize and present digital media in courses. It provides an overview of how the systems work, the technologies used to build them, and how they have evolved over time to incorporate more media types and partner with more departments across the university. Copyright issues around using digital course materials are also briefly addressed.

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Adobe Education Leader Institute 2009 San Jose, California July 22nd 2009
Death of the slide projector Art History instructors need their slides We need to digitize! Image repository? Audio and Video materials? Can we have a shared resource? What about Copyright? Who can do the work?
What applications are we talking about? CourseMedia™ - Media Management System: A course media management system that helps instructors organize and present media materials (images, video and audio). Instructors can create media galleries that can be accessed by their students online. ALORA - Active Learning Object Repository: A digital object metadata storage and retrieval system build to allow the cataloguing of any type of digital object using any metadata schema from Dublin Core to VRA.
Course Media Management System. Password-protected media management and presentation application. Allows presentation of Images, Audio, Video, Text and External Media. Includes a full toolset for the management, presentation, sharing, and contribution of digital objects. Instructors have access to 45,000+ images and 2,500+ videos. Used in 600+ DU courses every quarter.
ColdFusion 8 Application Server Used along with the Fusebox framework, IIS6, and mySQL 5 to perform core backend functionality. Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 Used to stream audio and video objects to the core application, various front-ends, and toolsets. Flash/Flex-Based Toolset Most of the tools for managing objects, core application datasets, and the presentation and arrangement of digital objects. Adobe AIR 1.5 Implemented for various front-end kiosk systems and the VPS Projection System.
Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus
2002: DU Visual Art Gallery Application Convert slide library images to digital form. Replacement for slide projection (using ScreenWeaver) Allow slide curator to handle metadata. Only supports images – no A/V. 2006: DUVAGA 2.0 / ALORA: Renamed to simply “DUVAGA” (no longer stands for anything). Split off the metadata repository and object management system. Can incorporate any schema – default is Dublin Core and VRA. DUVAGA totally rewritten (Fusebox Framework). Complete set of new tools for Video and Audio. 2009: DU CourseMedia™: Renamed due to an impending lawsuit and functional purposes. Released integrated Media Viewer (Flex) along with rebranding.
DUVAGA 1.0: Center for Teaching & Learning School of Art and Art History DUVAGA 2.0 / ALORA: Center for Teaching & Learning DU Streaming Media Group Penrose Library / Digital Production Services School of Art and Art History Graduate School of Social Work Mass Communications Law School Business School Lamont School of Music Misc Others…
On such a large-scale project, cooperation and strategy is critical. The library course reserves desk receives a request for materials and checks to see whether or not the university owns a purchased copy of the media. If they do not own a copy, they will attempt to acquire a copy. The digital transfer is then done to our specifications by Digital Production Services. Librarians transfer the metadata from various sources into ALORA and catalog the digital object. The object is then available for instructional use.
Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus
Generally, one can use copyright materials dependant upon the following conditions: 1. You must be a faculty member 2. The class must be part of the for-credit university catalog 3. The material must be related to the course 4. Access must be password protected 5. There must be a stated copyright notice 6. You must use excerpts whenever possible
Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus
Joseph Labrecque, MA Senior Multimedia Application Developer Adobe Higher Education Leader Adjunct Faculty DMS/ICT Phone: 303.871.6566 Email: Joseph.Labrecque@du.edu Office: Penrose 323 Twitter: @JosephLabrecque Weblog: http://inflagrantedelicto.memoryspiral.com/

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Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus

  • 1. Adobe Education Leader Institute 2009 San Jose, California July 22nd 2009
  • 2. Death of the slide projector Art History instructors need their slides We need to digitize! Image repository? Audio and Video materials? Can we have a shared resource? What about Copyright? Who can do the work?
  • 3. What applications are we talking about? CourseMedia™ - Media Management System: A course media management system that helps instructors organize and present media materials (images, video and audio). Instructors can create media galleries that can be accessed by their students online. ALORA - Active Learning Object Repository: A digital object metadata storage and retrieval system build to allow the cataloguing of any type of digital object using any metadata schema from Dublin Core to VRA.
  • 4. Course Media Management System. Password-protected media management and presentation application. Allows presentation of Images, Audio, Video, Text and External Media. Includes a full toolset for the management, presentation, sharing, and contribution of digital objects. Instructors have access to 45,000+ images and 2,500+ videos. Used in 600+ DU courses every quarter.
  • 5. ColdFusion 8 Application Server Used along with the Fusebox framework, IIS6, and mySQL 5 to perform core backend functionality. Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 Used to stream audio and video objects to the core application, various front-ends, and toolsets. Flash/Flex-Based Toolset Most of the tools for managing objects, core application datasets, and the presentation and arrangement of digital objects. Adobe AIR 1.5 Implemented for various front-end kiosk systems and the VPS Projection System.
  • 7. 2002: DU Visual Art Gallery Application Convert slide library images to digital form. Replacement for slide projection (using ScreenWeaver) Allow slide curator to handle metadata. Only supports images – no A/V. 2006: DUVAGA 2.0 / ALORA: Renamed to simply “DUVAGA” (no longer stands for anything). Split off the metadata repository and object management system. Can incorporate any schema – default is Dublin Core and VRA. DUVAGA totally rewritten (Fusebox Framework). Complete set of new tools for Video and Audio. 2009: DU CourseMedia™: Renamed due to an impending lawsuit and functional purposes. Released integrated Media Viewer (Flex) along with rebranding.
  • 8. DUVAGA 1.0: Center for Teaching & Learning School of Art and Art History DUVAGA 2.0 / ALORA: Center for Teaching & Learning DU Streaming Media Group Penrose Library / Digital Production Services School of Art and Art History Graduate School of Social Work Mass Communications Law School Business School Lamont School of Music Misc Others…
  • 9. On such a large-scale project, cooperation and strategy is critical. The library course reserves desk receives a request for materials and checks to see whether or not the university owns a purchased copy of the media. If they do not own a copy, they will attempt to acquire a copy. The digital transfer is then done to our specifications by Digital Production Services. Librarians transfer the metadata from various sources into ALORA and catalog the digital object. The object is then available for instructional use.
  • 11. Generally, one can use copyright materials dependant upon the following conditions: 1. You must be a faculty member 2. The class must be part of the for-credit university catalog 3. The material must be related to the course 4. Access must be password protected 5. There must be a stated copyright notice 6. You must use excerpts whenever possible
  • 13. Joseph Labrecque, MA Senior Multimedia Application Developer Adobe Higher Education Leader Adjunct Faculty DMS/ICT Phone: 303.871.6566 Email: Joseph.Labrecque@du.edu Office: Penrose 323 Twitter: @JosephLabrecque Weblog: http://inflagrantedelicto.memoryspiral.com/