Video and Multimedia Production

Community-generated media is the real-world equivalent of “user-generated content” online. As our major media begin to roll out into our streets via wireless networks, handheld devices, and public displays, an exciting opportunity arises for the personal and social potential of these media to foster a "Renaissance 2.0" within our cities and community spaces. Ambient urban media still follows a broadcast paradigm (like TV), whereas the primary dynamic of public space is social (like the Internet). Humanity's participative nature will make it possible for communities to collectively create vibrant, hyperlocal identities for themselves through media. Think of CGM as a “strange loop” where communities generate media that generate community.

This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.

We have created an IPTV system that allows our users to watch anything from Desperate Housewives to the latest talk on ResearchChannel on their computer or a TV. This session will explain how the system works, the reactions of our users, and the system's unexpected benefits.

Apple's free iTunes U service offers a powerful way to distribute audio and video content to users on campus and beyond. The three University of Illinois campuses have deployed iTunes U and are using it today. We'll share the strategies they used for technical set-up, site organization, content production, and workflow.

Most lecture capture systems are too tech-heavy, too expensive, require too much training, and are too difficult to adopt across a campus. Until now. TechSmith’s newest beta software, Camtasia Relay, changes everything. Join Michigan State University and see how they’re better connecting with students, anytime, anywhere.

PrimaryAccess (www.primaryaccess.org) www.primaryaccess.org is a Web 2.0 digital tool developed at the University of Virginia's Center for Technology and Teacher Education that allows teachers to integrate primary source documents into the curriculum through student-created digital documentaries. This session will demonstrate the tool and discuss its use in the K–12 classroom to stimulate participant ideas for transferability to higher education.

GSLIScast is a podcasting service implemented by Simmons GSLIS. Funded by a university grant, the service is now regularly posting lectures and other educational events. This session will present a case study of the implementation of GSLIScast. It will provide a checklist for bringing up podcasting services in higher education, discuss policies with examples, and present solutions to common problems.

Course lecture capture provides many positive benefits to enhance student learning by providing on-demand access to recorded class lectures. We will share the results of our pilot including implementation challenges, student and faculty feedback, and assessment data.

A Flash-based streaming video gallery using a multipanel interface was developed to assist a Media Studies instructor to replace a series of VHS tapes for in-class use. This single interface provided both student and instructor with single-click access to a series of curriculum-related videos directly within their Blackboard course.

WordPress, an open source content management platform, can be used to implement Web 2.0 learning initiatives without the need for a team of programmers. We will demonstrate how Yale is using WordPress for collaborative script analysis, audience driven theater events, and courses where students contribute images and podcasts.