| Chattanooga State Technical Community College | |||||
| Technology Access Committee | |||||
| Videos on Demand | |||||
| Revised February 10, 2004 | |||||
| Strategies | Tasks | Responsible Persons | FY | Costs | Comments |
| 1a) NETWORK SERVICES: Upgrade infrastructure | Chuck Chamberlin | 2004-05 | |||
| 1b) | Provide CSTCC sites with enough bandwidth to view online videos | Chuck Chamberlin & Tim Belcher | 2004-05 | 4 sites total: $19,000 + $2500/mo; Seq. site: ~$20,000 capital outlay | Goal: 100mbs to desktops and T1's or wireless equivalents between sites. Costs: Dayton-$6000+$1000mo; Kimball-$6000+$1000mo; East-$3500+$250mo; Nsg@Erlanger-$3500+$250mo |
| 1c) | Upgrade Amnicola Campus buildings' infrastructure to allow viewing of online videos | Chuck Chamberlin & Tim Belcher | 2004-05 | Existing bldgs: $150,000 + 2003-04 expenses; Olan Mills: $139,000 | Chuck can elaborate on specific equipment as needed. |
| 1d) | Investigate upgrading campus bandwidth to DS3/T3 (45mbps) or OC3 (155mbps) | Chuck Chamberlin & Don Gibson | 2005-06 | $24,000 more per year for 6mbps thru TNII | Increase bandwidth to 6mbps (or greater) from 3mbps (1.5mbps x two T1 lines). Total cost of 6mbps = $52,000yr thru TNII. We're paying $28,000 for 3mbps. DS3 is $19,800 per month = $237,600 year. BellSouth has fiber in Olan Mills so that may give us other options. |
| 1e) | Investigate partnering with local ISP's (Chatt.Online, Comcast, BellSouth) to deliver videos over broadband to students (Rice Univ., Houston,TX) | Jim Durm, Joyce Brennan, Chuck Chamberlin | 2006-07 | Unknown at this time | Needs more investigation and perhaps a visit to Rice University, Houston, TX in 2005-2006FY. Does this only require a router between CSTCC & each or all local ISP's? How much benefit is it? Which ISP's do CSTCC students use? . |
| 2a) NETWORK SERVICES: Implement caching servers to store frequently viewed digital videos | Develop a pilot project (perhaps with the library) to see if this permits faster loading while saving bandwidth. | Chuck Chamberlin & Tim Belcher (Library staff: Bill Norman & Donna Appleget) | 2004-05 | $28,000 | $4,000 each for 7 buildings on the Amnicola campus |
| 2b) | Get vendors' permissions to cache videos | Rosy Milburn & Vicky Leather | 2004-05 | Staff time-licensing. Cost varies by vendor. | Determine length of time videos are cached (1day, 1 week, until cache is cleared?) |
| 3a) NETWORK SERVICES: Implement multicasting to send one video stream that many computers can view simultaneously | Complete technical training on multicasting. | Tim Belcher | 2005-06 | $3,000 for expert assistance | Tim has completed technical training. We need expert help to implement. (Useful for groups of students to see videos at scheduled times) |
| 3b) | Identify equipment needed. | Chuck Chamberlin & Tim Belcher | 2005-06 | Included in infrastructure | Can video be multicast to sites? |
| 4a) LIBRARY: Investigate colleges working on digitizing videos | Continue to read the literature and search for videos on college websites. | Vicky Leather | 2003-04 | Staff time | Ft. Hays State U.; U South Florida; Wake Forest; Vanderbilt; Seattle Community Colleges TV are digitizing |
| 5a) LIBRARY: Purchase digital videos when available | Inform video vendors that CSTCC wants to license access to digital videos, not buy physical videos. | Vicky Leather | 2003-04 | Staff time. Cost varies by vendor | Some vendors sell digital videos and do not license access to them on the vendor's server. |
| 5b) | Ask Concept Media if we can digitize all their videos we own. | Rosy Milburn | 2003-04 | Currently unknown. Estimate: $200 each x 30 =$6,000 | Tim Clark-Concept Media: We will probably be given rights to digitize the CM videos we own. CM is still working on the pricing structure. |
| 5c) | Ask Films for Humanities if we can obtain digital copies of their videos we own. | Vicky Leather & Rosy Milburn | 2003-04 | See $12,000 request below | Ohio is providing FFH digital videos for all public colleges/univ's. 12/10/03: FFH: lifetime rights to digital videos=$200 each.+ $40.00 per campus site location fee for each video. 1/9/04:Rosy will discuss revisions to license. |
| 5d) | New videos: Ask for video download rights when we license digital videos | Rosy Milburn | 2004-05 | Staff time & vendor costs | |
| 5e) | Existing videos: Obtain copyright permission to digitize, allow several persons simultaneous access, and allow downloads | Rosy Milburn | 2005-06 | Staff time & vendor costs | Ask if asynchronous license also include synchronous license. Currently talking with PBS rep. about digitizing & licensing fees. |
| 5f) | Submit TAF request for server and licensing fees for 30 Films for Humanities digital videos that we own in VHS format | Vicky Leather | 2004-05 | $12,000 | Needs: infrastructure able to deliver videos; digitizing equipment; blank DVD's. Question: location of server?; Contact OhioLINK to determine how they did this. |
| 6a) LIBRARY: Provide IP and password access to digital videos | Change password to videos first day of each semester just as password to library databases is changed. | Vicky Leather | 2005-06 | Staff time | Library uses EZ Proxy to manage passworded access to databases & AIMS Dig.Curr. Videos. |
| 6b) | Contact AIMS Digital Curriculum about putting CSTCC videos on their server | Vicky Leather | 2003-04 | Not an option | Contacted 12/10/03. DC does not store video files on their servers. They provide IP and password access to video files stored on owner's server. |
| 7a) LIBRARY: Publicize digital videos | Betsy Fronk | 2003-04 | Staff time | ||
| 8a) MEDIA SERVICES: Digitize college-owned videos | Develop a pilot project to digitize several college produced VHS videos. | Gary Fisher | 2005-06 | $250,000-$500,000 | Can Media Services presently convert VHS to DVD? |
| 8b) | Request V-Brick equipment from TAF | Bruce Alston | 2005-06 | $182,000 April 2003 quote (included in costs above) | See "Vbrick Costs" sheet. 2/9/04 Contacted Southwestern Communication for update on April 2003 proposal. 2/11/04 Vicky, Gary, & Bruce will see Vbrick in use at Graysville Elementary School, Graysville, TN |
| 8c) | Obtain copyright permission to digitize, provide simultaneous access, and allow downloads | Rosy Milburn | 2005-06 | Staff time and vendor costs | Estimated 100 videos x $200 each = $20,000 |
| 8d) | Decide which videos to digitize first | Vicky Leather, George Alred, Pam Temple, Rosy Milburn | 2005-06 | Staff time & vendor costs | 1/8/04: George Alred gave Vicky Leather 3 years of video usage statistics. |
| 8e) | Determine digitizing format - MPEG1, MPEG2, Windows Media (One vendor recommended Windows Media, not MPEG) | Gary Fisher & Bruce Alston | 2005-06 | Staff time | Do we have MAC users? Can MACs view Windows Media? Which format best supports closed captioning? Which format best maximizes bandwidth for highest quality viewing? What standards will we set? 30 fps, full-screen video is the gold standard. |
| 8f) | Ask Laqueta Soule if students can caption videos as we digitize them | Vicky Leather | 2005-06 | Internship-no costs. If paid: $7/hour x 300 hrs =$2100 | Could this be an internship? Should students be paid? Are there contractual agreements necessary between CSTCC & students for this? 12/11/03: Asked L.S. if it was technically possible for someone to add closed-captioning to digitized video. 12/11: L.S. said Judy Brentano in Atlanta (jbrentano@mindspring.com) is an expert in this. |
| 8g) | Ask vendors for permission for our students to caption videos as we digitize them | Vicky Leather & Rosy Milburn | 2005-06 | Staff time & licensing issues. | Will vendors want us to pay them or will vendors want to buy the captioned video from us? |
| 9a) MEDIA SERVICES: Maintain closed circuit system until students can watch all videos over the campus network | Gary Fisher, Bruce Alston, and George Alred | 2003-04 | Staff time & funding for maint. | Is closed-circuit available in all Amnicola campus classrooms? | |
| 10a) TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE: Upgrade classrooms to view digital videos | Joyce Brennan & TAF Committee | 2004-05 | This is an ongoing project. | ||
| 10b) | Purchase for each newly networked classroom: fast computer, video/audio cards, good speakers, projector, large screen. Include DVD players for transition time between closed circuit and online videos. Upgrade existing networked classroom computers as described above. | Joyce Brennan & TAF Committee | Develop a schedule | $10,000 ea x ____ classrms = $______ | How many classrms will be outfitted each year? |
| 10c) | Provide network connection in each classroom | Tim Belcher | 2004-05 | Cost is included in infrastruct. | |
| 11a) TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE: Upgrade computer labs to view digital videos | Joyce Brennan & TAF Committee | 2004-05 | This is an ongoing project. | ||
| 11b) | Purchase for each computer lab: fast computer, video and audio cards, good earphones, 17" or larger screens. Include DVD players for transition time between closed circuit and online videos. | Joyce Brennan & TAF Committee | Develop a schedule | $1,200 ea x ______ computers = $______ | Should students be required to bring their own earphones? (If so, put in Student Handbook.) |
| 11c) | Provide an adequate number of network connections in each lab | Tim Belcher | Develop a schedule | Cost is included in infrastruct. | |
| 11d) | Provide a "network isolation type device" (a VLAN to keep traffic local in each lab) | Chuck Chamberlin & Tim Belcher | Develop a schedule | Cost is included in infrastruct. | A switch in each lab would cost $3500 ea. VLAN's can be done easily once the infrastruc. is in place. |
| 11e) | Provide a caching server in each lab | Chuck Chamberlin & Tim Belcher | Develop a schedule | $3500 ea lab | How many labs should we put caching servers in? |