Video Comes to Wikis
Just finished a teacher center class on wikis this afternoon, only to stumble across fliggo.com, a new video sharing site which does to YouTube what Ning did to Facebook: empower users to roll their own community sharing spot. Maybe wikis are just on my mind, but the site feels like a wiki for videos: anyone whom you invite can add their own videos to the site. Alternatively, you can limit guests’ interactivity to posting comments and ratings, creating your own video blog.
This solves a real problem in schools. Just when so many schools have finally acquired the hardware to do digital video editing, now many of them have no way to share the videos they produce in a manner that is secure and efficient. You either put it on YouTube and hope nothing bad happens or you put it in your course management system and force users to download each video prior to playing (I’m yet to hear of a CMS that has streaming capabilities). I’ll be watching Fliggo and hoping that, like VoiceThread, they pursue K-12 districts and build features and special spaces to accommodate them. And I’ll be reporting back here on my own experiments with Fliggo.
