Interviews/Podcasts/Videos

This is a University of Wisconsin student orientation video on the importance of understanding file sharing.

The ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World, explored what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy, and why it is a critical skill in a Web 2.0 world. ELI developed a video summary of the event for use as a persistent learning resource. It provides an overview of the major concepts presented and discussed at the session, such as what it means for students, faculty, and staff to be net savvy and the potential pitfalls of not being net savvy in an online world. It also highlights the need to address issues of information literacy / fluency, media literacy, and good digital citizenship across the curriculum, as well as across professional development and student life programs.

Can the music go on by offering fans better ways to get music, while guaranteeing payment for its creators? Where have copyright law and its enforcers gone wrong, and what can students, music fans, and co-creators do to put the law back on track?

How can the university foster intellectual exploration and creativity, protect students' privacy, and educate responsible citizens of the networked world? Is it possible to support balanced copyright law and enforcement, without responding to every entertainment company's demands for internet filtering and "pre-litigation notices"?

Joan Lippincott, associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), contributed a video interview with her daughter, Meg Lippincott, to the program for the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for A Rapidly Changing World. A sophomore at Vassar College, Meg provides a student perspective on how students seek information for their academic work. Her views are drawn from her experiences helping peers at her college library reference desk as well as her own efforts. Meg discusses aspects of information literacy and her definition of a "net savvy student." Her friend Jan Zhan, a student at University of Maryland, shot the interview.

This video from the University of Minnesota's Digital Media Center presents of U of MN students talking about how they use digital technology in their lives and learning. It also compares those perspectives against survey data collected by the Center, which provides a more complete picture of how knowledgeable and experienced U of MN students really are in the use of digital technologies. The video is provided in QuickTime format.

Heidi Wachs, Government Relations Officer for EDUCAUSE, shares her insights on the potential consequences by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)’s sending pre-litigation letters to students at 58 colleges, including the University of Maine.

In all there were 56 submissions from 24 colleges and universities. The winning videos are:

30 Second Public Service Announcement Category
Gold Award - 1st Prize Winner
Avoid Infection
Joseph Ellis and Eric Collins, University of Delaware
Silver Award - 2nd Prize Winner
Whoa, That's Awkward
Evan Michals, Dartmouth College
Bronze Award - 3rd Prize Winner
When You Least Expect It
Nolan Portillo, California State University - Bakersfield

2 Minute or Less Program Category
Gold Award - 1st Prize Winner
Identity Theft for Criminals
Scott Polcyn and Daniel Garcia, University of Central Florida
Silver Award - 2nd Prize Winner
Out in the Open
Mark Lancaster, Texas A&M University
Bronze Award - 3rd Prize Winner
A Short Film About Data Protection
Chris Herbein, Pennsylvania College of Technology

Note: Once you are in the Elluminate session, fast forward to time index 7:30 to skip the mic checks and orientation slides.