[p2pu-webcraft] How can we best use HTML5 video (Universal Subtitles, Popcorn etc) for awesome Webcraft content?

[Dan Diebolt]

Dany I think I see what you have done now. Since it may not be apparent to
everyone else let me summarize it from my perspective.

Your P2PU HTML 5 course was run in Spanish and advertised through this P2PU
course page:

*Experiencias Web Con HTML 5*
**p2pu.org/webcraft/experiencias-web-con-html5

For the course content itself you used an installation of Moodle you either
owned or administratively controlled at this page:

*Web Experiences HTML 5*
http://webcraft.giweb.org/course/view.php?id=2

For each of the 10 sessions in the course you presented a pdf document
covering the week's learning materials embedded into giweb.com using
<object> and provided a link to the WiZiQ.com live recorded session that
featured (a) a white board / screen share, (b) video inset of presenter and
(c) chat session. These weekly recordings are downloadable as a flash
executable for replay. I am sure there were other features
and communication aspects of the course I have not mentioned.

But the bottom line is that all of your essential course content, resource
sharing and communications occurred largely outside the P2PU platform after
the the initial course registration period which itself occurred within the
P2PU platform. Full participation in the course required two additional
independent registrations with the giweb.org and WiZiQ.com sites. Moreover,
I notice that in your packaging of the course there were no prominent
"social" features such as activity streams, gravatars, friend following etc
presumably because they were not needed.

If this summary and interpretation is even partially correct it supports
what I have been saying, namely that the new P2PU platform has essentially
no features that are needed to support WebCraft courses and course
organizers are forced to use a hodgepodge of external tools and resources to
construct and run their courses.

In consideration of the above, let me get back to one tiny HTML 5 video
issue that is going to be an impediment to success. How does P2PU and
especially Mozilla SoW hope to promote learning and adoption of HTML 5 video
without providing the necessary tools to deploy examples created by learners
without offering a hosting sandbox? You really need a way for users to
contribute their standalone code examples to a platform you control and
support to enable collaborative learning. And you need to create more
features, resources and tools that support the running of WebCraft courses
and de-prioritize all the social features which are largely distractions and
noise generators in their current rendition.
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