10. SÄCHSISCHES GIS-FORUM-DRESDEN

GIS education using online video lectures and BizBiz tool

BAppSci(IT) Raitis Bērziņš

raitis.berzins@va.lv

What is it?

Online video e-lecturing and conferencing platform similar to:

GoToMeeting, DimDim, WebEx, iVisitInternationalization, map integration, metadataCan be used to support distributed learning in rural areas and international projects

Underlaying technologies

Browser based (Cross-platform)Red5 video streaming (open source)Flash video frontend (simple config, legacy support). HTML5 (?)Java runtime for screen capture

Data flow

Online maps

Multi Webcam

Screen capture

Categorized Recordings

Metadata catalogue(DublinCore Lecture info + Coverage tag)

Screenshot – webpage demonstration

Synchronized drawing on maps

Lecture workflow

Public lecture mode –1 Lecturer + slides, video etc.

Testing mode – each student in seperate sandboxLecturer can join each one and monitor their work

Content generation = save screen capture as slide

http://bizbiz.mooo.comDevelop athttp://sourceforge.net/projects/bizbiz/Contains translated (EN,CZ,BU,LT,LV,GR, IT) presentations from SDI-EDU project, Naturnet Redime.

Is tested, translated and improved in within SDI-EDU project

A few facts

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