Altc winter conference 2016 unicam presentation

Editor's Notes

1. In recent years video become commonplace  in Higher Education with systems such as YouTube being widely used. While this upsurge in easy use of video is happening, storage and sharing of videos can be a significant obstacle for lecturers integrating the use of video into their modules. Commercial companies have designed excellent systems to facilitate higher education requirements.Most commercial systems charge handsomely and do not easily integrate with existing systems. DCU decided to innovate its way to a practical, affordable solution;  we built UniCam, a high quality video recording and sharing system. The system is extremely flexible and has many use cases such as the recording of lectures, lab activities, student presentations, practical examinations, etc.
2. After completing a functional and technical specification a software development company (Maithú) was engaged. The specification was designed to create a truly flexible and modular system, at a price DCU could afford, integrating with existing University storage infrastructure and basic ‘off the shelf’ cameras and android touch screens. One of the key unique points of UniCam is how it handles the storage of the recorded video content. In DCU’s case, all staff and students have access to unlimited storage as part of the Google Apps system used for email and cloud file storage. UniCam integrates with DCU Apps which permits the easy storage of ‘unlimited’ video content in DCU accounts and easy, secure sharing of this content with other staff and students. Since then UniCam has been developed further in SNHS and Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME) with support from Information Systems and Services (ISS) and the Teaching Enhancement Unit (TEU) at DCU. This presentation will outline case studies from each of these. We would welcome your feedback on how to improve this system and also the opportunity for you to use the system if you are interested
3. YouTube has over a billion users — almost one-third of all people on the Internet — and every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views. YouTube overall, and even YouTube on mobile alone, reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S The latest figure that I can come up with is from 2014 up to 400 hours uploaded every minute - http://tubularinsights.com/youtube-300-hours/
4. As ger will explain in the video in the next slide. There are a variety of commercial options available. Each with their own advantages
5. Talk about Accessibility of touch screen panel, The touch screen contains help videos and also has been programmed to be “accessible” for people with visual difficulties talk about high resolution projectors to increase visibility. Two projectors put in larger rooms to increase visbility for all students