Open Educational Resources at Otago Polytechnic

[markleggett]

Mark Leggett is amazing.

[leighblackall]

Yes he is actually. He saved our bacon when he refined the edits after we had terrible issues with our editing software working well. I asked him to put his name in the credits, but no! He likes to put them in the Youtube comments instead :)

[MatarikiStarpath]

Otago Polytech..what a great institution and your policy of collaborating and sharing resources is amazing. Thanks....more education and learning for everyone.

[leighblackall]

Thanks Matariki

[mikebogle]

Fantastic video, thanks Leigh!

[leighblackall]

Hope it inspires other institutions to go open :)

[mikebogle]

There are definitely people advocating openness here (including myself), but it feels at times as though it's a tremendous uphill struggle. I'm constantly hearing arguments about copyright/IP, privacy and an insistence on the preservation structure, hierarchy and formalised outcomes.

It feels like we're beginning to make a bit of headway, and yet there's still a long way to go. I guess the main thing is to keep pushing on.

[sarahmstewart]

Love the video, Leigh. What camera & video editing tools did you use? cheers Sarah

[leighblackall]

Hi Sarah, actually we had a very hard time with our Camera. It was a Sony hard drive handy cam. It doesn't have a standard external mic port, and we don't have a Sony mic, so we were left with the in built mic :( The video files weren't compatible with the editinig sofware, so we had to fuss around for quite some time.. all this eating into production time and quality - Double thanks to Sunshine Connelly and Mark Leggett for their patient work dealing with our terrible little camera!