Elluminate Publish exploration
One investment made at the end of 2008 was a licence for Elluminate with the Plan and Publish functionality added to the luxurious notion of unlimited seats and rooms.
Today I’ve started to explore Elluminate Publish. This means that we can take a recorded session and convert it over to a range of formats. Ideal for offline viewing or using on a restricted computer.
Rather than having to download Elluminate to watch a session at a later time, now we can make mp3 files for audio and MP4 and mov files for video, amongst others. The video output gives you the whiteboard screens and audio chat, leaving out other interaction tools such as the text chat, emoticons and polling activity (well, unless results are published onto the whiteboard).
As I write this I also think that leaving out the text chat and participant names list probably makes it a bit friendlier in terms of distribution – unless you know a person’s voice well then it would be hard to stalk someone 
Not sure if webcam footage is captured in producing the video formats as neither session I’ve converted so far used webcams.
How do we then distribute these recordings?
We could:
- Collate audio or video onto disc and distribute, perhaps with any associated files loaded as well
- Load into the Learning Edge respository
- Load to You Tube or make an iTunes channel
- Load direct into whatever platform is used for providing access to learning materials for learners
- Drop into a shared network drive
- Encourage learners to load to mobile/ portable devices for learning on the go
Permissions
If publically available we’d need to make sure we have informed consent from participants.
Things to explore
What options we have in-house for producing rss feeds with enclosures
What permissions might be appropriate
How we support staff to convert these recordings into various formats
How we could use this for sharing staff development activities more widely
What works well as a recording – types of sessions, use of media, use of various Elluminate tools.
A guide on recommended formats to convert to, and implications of choices.
Cross posted at http://lrs.tafe.tas.edu.au/node/135