[Using Sakai] video embedding options for Lessons

[Josh Baron]

As you know, the Teaching and Learning Group has continued to discuss and 
plan for what we are calling Teaching and Learning Capability Reviews and 
have been experimenting with Lessons as means to explore the process for 
how we might engage in this type of work.  I've been remiss in updating 
you and seeking more input in the planning that is going on but will 
follow up with a separate email to discuss.

For now, I wanted to suggest that the Teaching and Learning Group dedicate 
part or most of our call today (we are talking from 2 - 3 PM Eastern Time, 
a reminder email with dial-in information will go out shortly) to 
discussing the ideas you've proposed and documenting some feedback. 
Recognizing that this is last minute, if you had time and were able to 
join the call that could be very helpful.

Thanks for reaching out!

Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron



From:   Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu>
To:     Sakai-Mailinglist Sakai Project 
<sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>, 
Date:   09/17/2013 03:37 PM
Subject:        [Using Sakai] video embedding options for Lessons
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Lessons has a feature to embed videos and other content, "add multimedia". 
It currently supports only actual video files (.e.g MP4), Youtube URLs, 
and a random catchall for other URLs. For the rest you have to do "add 
text", go into "source" and add your own HTML.

I find that there are 4 different techniques that are commonly used. I'm 
thinking of simply providing a radio button to select one:

* video file - this is a file that you upload, e.g. an MP4 file or a Flash 
video. It can also be the URL of a file like this
* video sharing site such as Youtube or Vimeo. This is a URL to a video on 
one of those sites. It will start with http: or https:
* embed code. Some video sharing sites give you a "embed code." This 
usually starts with <OBJECT> or <IFRAME>
* iframe. Currently if I can't figure out what else to do with a URL I put 
it in an iframe. That lets the web site figure it out. This can also be 
used to embed news stories, etc.

Currently "add multimedia" supports only the first and last options. Those 
will stay unchanged
* I propose to use oembed, 
https://github.com/starfishmod/jquery-oembed-all, to handle video sharing 
URLs
* I propose to add an option for embed code. It will take raw HTML, pass 
it through filtering based on the level of HTML filtering you have set, 
and put it in the page

I don't much like presenting users with those alternatives, but I also 
can't think of a way to avoid it.

Any other thoughts?

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