CUNY Academic Commons

As the recent law-suit against Harvard and MIT demonstrates, one important feature of a CUNYtube should be the auto-addition of captions and transcripts for video and audio, and the “requirement” that uploaded images be tagged with alt-text to describe what the image depicts.

Thank you Bruce.
I lean towards a hosted environment as well; I think that provides the immediate gratification that you mention.

At Queensborough we have a media server that some faculty are reluctant to use because they cannot get the “instant gratification” of uploading videos and then receiving an immediate URL and / or embed code (like YouTube). Users must deliver video files to us, we place them on the server and then email the URL to them – this may take up to a few d…[Read more]