The Creative Commons blog recently described an interesting video sharing and production tool called Kaltura.
Kaltura, an “open-source platform for video creation, management, interaction, and collaboration”, boasts a robust platform uncommon among web-apps that includes the ability to annotate, remix, edit, and share video collaboratively over the web.
One of the distinctive features is its focus on collaboration. In an educational context, it would be interesting to see how well students would take to this (e.g., produce an instructional video). After quickly skimming the site, the standouts for me are:
- the remixing and annotating capabilities
- a video player that allows you to import content directly into it
- Plugins for Word Press bloggers, an extension for MediaWiki, and later on, one for Drupal
If you’re not quite ready to take the full plunge, they’ve got a Sandbox under the User Zone tab.
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