Ourmedia Launches Digital Media Learning Center
Ourmedia is looking for volunteers to help expand its new Digital Media Learning Center online.
Ourmedia writes, “In the coming months we’ll be building out a rich, up-to-date educational resource for everything you wanted to know about personal media. See below for some preliminary topics.
Please volunteer to help the project become more robust. Experts, educators, amateurs and others have agreed to contribute to this democratic knowledge database. All contributions will be shared under a Creative Commons license, and we hope that other sites will republish bits and pieces of this project.
We encourage video and audio submissions as well as text.
Here is an initial list of topics we’ll be tackling. Let us know if you’d like to contribute to an entry, or if you’d like to become a topic editor.”
The topics include:
- Personal media: getting started including, “What is RSS? & What is BitTorrent?”
- Video & videoblogging including, “What is a videoblog? Why should I create one?”
- Audio & podcasting including links to Lisa Williams, “Four Minutes About Podcasting” and “How to publish audio online”
- Mobile media including, “What’s a moblog?”
- Digital storytelling soon to include such topics as, “What’s a digital story? Why should I create one?” and “Tutorial: How to create a digital story”
- Digital photography soon to include, “What do I need to know to get started? and “Computer editing tricks to improve your images”
- Filmmaking & documentaries including, “Filmmaking seems daunting. How do I get started?”
- Text & blogging including, “What’s the best way to write for the Web?“ and “Where can I find a good blogging service?”
- Citizen journalism including, “Citizen journalism Q&A“ and “What are the ethics of online journalism?”
- Other topics include, “Oral histories”, “Digital animation & graphics”, “Games”, “The law and grassroots media”, “Marketing & distribution solutions”, “Free content repositories”, and “Education and training”.
Looks like a great online resource for all your media making needs and a great way to volunteer and contribute resources to the site. Check it out here.
