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Launch of MoLeTV

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments
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The Learning and Skills Network has introduced MoLeTV which will be targeted primarily to colleges in England, under the auspices of the Learning and Skills Council.
 
Use of this new digital media site enables registered users to upload media in most of the common formats – AVI, MP4, MP3, Windows Media and Quicktime. The uploaded media will convert to Adobe Flash Video, Windows Media, MP4 and 3GP and is available as a link or embed code which can be inserted into a VLE or web page. ‘Uploaders’ are able to edit and delete their content at any time.
 
What are the benefits of using this service? 

  • Promotion of curriculum content and sharing good practice
  • media automatically ’streams’
  • often a smaller file size
  • video is converted to a variety of formats and is accessible to VLE’s such as Moodle, websites, mobile devices and PDAs using the embed code and/or download links as appropriate
  • is curriculum relevant
  • is primarily UK based resources
  • is divided into Learning and Skills Council (LSC) categories
  • saves uploading media to your college servers
  • saves on back-up time for large files
  • embeds as flash media and saves trouble with plug-ins for other formats cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Macintosh)
  • helps stop staff uploading large AVI files to your server! (although only AVIs with specific codecs will convert)
  • has RSS feeds
  • can upload podcasts and vodcasts

The website is now available at http://www.moletv.org.uk. Users can create an account on the site (login area) which will allow them to upload media.
 
For further information see the Help, Site Notes and Site Issues areas on the MoLeTV site.

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