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Video Made the Radio Star
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

If you already have a video on your computer, you can upload it to Calaxy as follows:

1- Log into your K12HSN account


2- Go to “My Calaxy”


My Videos

3- Under “My Videos” click “Add video”


4- Fill out the Video Upload form

Asterisk (*) indicates required field

    Video Upload       
Title: Enter a title for your video.


Description
: Enter a description.


Tags: Type the tags or keywords that best describe your video.

Keywords/tags should be separated by spaces.

Tags are used in the global search. Searching for a specific keyword/tag, will take you to a page containing only podcasts with that tag.


Channels
: Select the channel(s) that correspond to your video.

Channels are system-defined, they are pre-defined.
They include both content areas (Administration, Adult Education, Mathematics, etc) and grade levels (Elementary School, Middle School, High School)


Album: A video may be part of an Album.
If yours is, select the album it belongs to.
See How to Create an Album...
  
     Album  


Categories: Select the categories that correspond to your video.

Categories are user-defined.
See How to Create a Category...

   Category


Video File

: Click “Browse” to find the video on your computer.
Videos have to be in
AVI, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, or MPG file formats.

A pop up window opens, select the file you would like to upload. Then click “Open”


Privacy
: In the Privacy section, you will decide whether the video is available to:
 - yourself only,
 - an Calaxy group,
 - the K12HSN trusted community or 
 - the public.
See How to Create a Group...    Group


Terms of Service:
Under Terms of Service, make sure you check the box next to “I agree to comply with the K12HSN Terms of Service (TOS)”

5- Hit “Submit”




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Comments
Steve Gipson said:
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 @ 8:57 AM
Great. After doing all this, I can find no way to actually WATCH the video I uploaded. Arggg!
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Denise Phillips said:
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 @ 4:00 PM
I noticed that some of the existing videos have embed codes. How can I make this available on my videos.
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Sandy Somera said:
Monday, August 17th, 2009 @ 12:47 PM
Is there anyway of downloading a video in order to view it off line?
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Jenny Thomas said:
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 @ 1:12 PM
Is there any chance we could get wmv files supported?
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