Prof Eric Klopfer from the edX course, Design and Development of Learning Games,talks in this video with Dan Norton, Founding Partner and CCO at Filament Games. Dan Norton reflects on Filament Games’ design philosophy and also challenges faced by learning game developers. Make sure you catch Dan’s advice for people who want to enter the learning games business (at 11:50 in the video).
The videos in the edX course involve Prof Eric Klopfer interviewing experts in the field, usually the experts are somehow connected with the MIT lab, Education Arcade.
***Let me know if you can open the video since I linked the video from Dropbox. The PSA website was unable to upload the video to the website library.
Yes Kris, it opens in a second window like other links, to a “DropBox” webpage, where one can play the video just fine. And this without me signing in to my DropBox account, so one might assume any visitor to PSA site would be able to play it.
Of course, since your DropBox account is hosting the video, you would need to maintain your account privileges with DropBox kindof indefinitely, or the link would probably become “inactive” at the PSA site.
Interesting. A while back I looked into Vimeo video storage and playback options. It’s not too expensive necessarily, but it’s not really for the really really large sizes such as an iShow U file can easily be, and there’s limits to how much you can upload per week, which could be a real problem, depending.
Now you’ve piqued my curiosity about what DropBox can do for us as a video storage and playback platform.
BTW, our present version of WP software underlying our site has a media size upload restriction of 64 MB, which has been around since before a lot of us started having and creating large, and then very very large video files.
In addition, we should take a look at what YouTube can do for PSA website video needs.
I tested my DropBox links on my husband so it is a public link.
Agreed that we need a place to store videos, prezis and documents. At this time, DropBox does the job for a price, all in one place. DropBox is my favorite app because it is in the cloud and available on all my devices. Yes, it is my DropBox account where we store all our PSA stuff. I guess we would at some point want all our stuff in a PSA account with DropBox or some other cloud tool that does it all in storage for a reasonable price.
Admin Note:
For now, unless the file is too big to fit at our WP site, or is a security risk of some kind, let’s continue with using our media library as we have been doing generally, which is there to have one place to put things we want to link to, and is backed up regularly all together.
This means most Word Doc, ,most PDF, some Prezi, some MindManager, and some video (short).
DropBox is good to have for PSA internal business and other items we don’t want to make public, and for video files that exceed 64MB, or for archiving documents that we haven’t linked to in a post, or that are “under construction.
We’ll revisit our media library MO periodically to make sure it’s up to date and does what we want it to do. Changes in cloud storage continue at a rapid pace.