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Plone 3 for Education

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Plone 3 for Education

Overview of this book

Plone enables your faculty and staff to manage their own web sites, but some assembly is still required. How do you represent courses online? What about assignment schedules, lecture podcasts, and collaborative spaces? That's where this book comes in-it takes the burden of routine updates off your web team by harnessing the world's most advanced free content management system. This is the school web team's missing manual. Through step-by-step examples covering 11 common educational use cases, you'll learn how to take the box of parts provided by Plone, combine them with best-of-breed third-party plug-ins, and turn out a dynamic web environment that will be a joy to use for faculty, enhance staff productivity, and engage the student body. Plone is powerful but complex. Its ease of use for end users belies a wealth of under-the-hood features and third-party add-ons that are time-consuming for back-end web teams to sort through. The book guides you on proven paths through the forest of potential that you encounter during design and deployment, starting you with reasonable choices for each of 11 common education-domain use cases. Each one enumerates the value it brings to your site and guides you step-by-step through an implementation suitable for the vast majority of cases, meaning you can spend your time addressing the unique needs of your institutionñnot reinventing the wheel.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Plone 3 for Education
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 6. Embedding Audio and Video

In the past few years, schools of all sizes have embraced audio and video distribution of lecture materials, news, self-guided campus tours, and much more in the race for efficiency and attention. Conveniently, Plone has some great plug-in products that integrate these media smoothly into the experience of both end users and content contributors. In this chapter, you will…

  • Learn how to publish audio and video all over to your Plone site, embedding it within portlets, including it within pages, and publishing podcasts that pack up your materials to go

  • Find out how to triple your traffic using the iTunes Store

  • See how to start your institution's presence on iTunes U, Apple's free distribution center for educational media

Meet the products

The most flexible and trouble-free solution for embedding audio and video in Plone is a product called collective.flowplayer. Written by long-time Plone developer Martin Aspeli, collective.flowplayer wraps a free Flash-based...