15th October 2007

K-12 Online 2007: Go for launch!

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Day One of the first regular week of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference is up and running! Being online with Sheryl and Lani for the launch this morning, I felt like someone watching the launch of the space shuttle or another rocket from Cape Canaveral. :-)
Endeavor on the launch pad

“Mission control, we are GO FOR LAUNCH. Repeat, we are GO on all systems. STS-K12Online07 is GO FOR LAUNCH!”

An aweseome rocket launch

Both the audio and video podcast channels for the conference have been updated, but for some reason my iTunes is having trouble downloading the videos which are in .m4v format (Liz and Clarence’s presos). The video presentations in .mp4 format (the 3 Amigo’s presentation and Silvia’s) show up in iTunes and download/play fine. We’re working on this, I’d be curious if others have this issue in iTunes. I can download the .m4v files in Flock, but for some reason Safari doesn’t like the links and tries to download them as text. This may be a local browser issue I have. Of the video versions of presentations we have this week, I think these two are the only in .m4v format. Strange.

Despite these questions, it appears we have a successful launch to the first week of the 2007 regular conference. “Houston, we have booster separation. STS-K12Online07 has reached earth orbit and is now transmitting content for a global education audience!”

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  1. 1 On October 15th, 2007, Bill Campbell said:

    I subscribed to the video podcast channel today using iTunes (on Windows) and the .m4v files did not show up for me either.

    My guess, based on very little actual knowledge of how this works, is that it has something to do with the RSS feed? When I click in my browser (FireFox 2) on the link to the .mv4 file of Clarence Fisher’s video and told FireFox to open it in iTunes, iTunes downloaded the video, filed it under Movies in iTunes, and I could play it from there.

    I mostly only use iTunes for audio files since I have an audio only iPod and prefer Windows Media Player for video so I don’t have much experience with video in iTunes, but this seemed a reasonable workaound to getting a local copy of the file without jumping through a lot of technical hoops.