[Using Sakai] Embed button in a rich text editor?

[Nicola Monat-Jacobs]

Sure -

It's basically a top-level Sakai tool that you can plug into your Sakai course. It displays as 'iTunes U' in the left-hand menu. When students click on it, they are launched into a site in iTunes (U) that corresponds to that course (if ti doesn't already exist, it's created on the fly.

Permissions are integrated between Sakai and iTunes U - an instructor in Sakai has edit ability in iTunes U and a student only has read (as you would expect).

Obviously, to make all this work, you'll need an iTunes U account for your institution, plus you'll need to know, or share with your hosting provider ;), your iTunes U 'shared key'. 

I know there have been some improvements to the tool lately, so I'm not 100% up-to-date on all the features, but it can definitely be a useful tool. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a lot of information out on Sakai's wiki about it that I can point you to.

Thanks,

Nicola Monat-Jacobs
Senior Technical Manager
The Longsight Group
nicola at longsight.com





On Jul 1, 2010, at  2:53 PM, Barb Kerns wrote:

> Would you please tell more about the iTunes U tool?
> Barb Kerns
> 
> Director
> Instructional Technology
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> 
> On 7/1/10 4:51 PM, "Nicola Monat-Jacobs" <nicola at longsight.com> wrote:
> 
>> There's also a sakai tool for iTunes U. It's not integrated with the FCK Editor, but it might make things easier for you.
>> 
>> Nicola
>> 
>> On Jul 1, 2010, at  2:49 PM, Katie Golus wrote:
>> 
>>> Nicola,
>>> 
>>> I found a couple articles on the movie plugin for FCK Editor in JIRA.  I think this might be what we've been looking for! 
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Katie
>>> _____________________
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>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Nicola Monat-Jacobs <nicola at longsight.com> wrote:
>>>> I think you're looking for the Movie button, which I believe is enabled in 2.7 by default. There's a JIRA on it somewhere which can give you more info.
>>>> 
>>>> Nicola
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 1, 2010, at  2:14 PM, Katie Golus wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone have a button in their Sakai editor that allows users to embed non-flash objects without entering into the source view? We have a button in FCK currently to embed .swf files, but it doesn't work with any other kinds of files (YouTube and iTunesU videos are the primary objects people want to add). 
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you have something that does this, what editor are you using and is the button a custom addition or standard for that editor?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Katie
>>>>> _____________________
>>>>> Katie Golus, Ed.M.
>>>>> Instructional Designer
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