fliggo_logoA while ago I asked our learning platform developer (coincidentally the maker of online-stopwatch.com and the other half of the Electric Chalk “team”) to make a SharePoint page for sharing student-made videos in a film club I’d set up.

And we beheld it and lo, it did exactly what it was supposed to in a drag and drop-type way.

I really wanted to take it forward and provide a nice easy way for the students to give comments and rate the videos but that would have taken up hours of developer time. 

Now, along comes Fliggo! Yay!

In short, Fliggo allows you to set up your own video sharing site for free. You can then control who has access, who can upload and comment etc.

I’ve had a go so I can formally announce the arrival of “CHALK TUBE” our very own TV channel! Mostly as an experiment to test the software but if any of my faithful readership (both of you) want to post any videos to do with teaching using digital video please feel free – it’s moderated, mind so no filth!

It took about 5 minutes to set up and I’ve just uploaded videos I have elsewhere on YouTube. The picture quality is not great but will do for now. Nice and easy for us sub-genuis techies.

It would be a great free resource in schools and reasonably secure. Great for primaries who have been working on video or animation projects, excellent for media teachers who want to encourage their students to experiment and collaborate.

It’s free for the basic account but you can pay $15 a month for higher video quality, the ability to host on your won domain etc.

Into the Electric Chalk Resource page it goes…