I’m beginning my final paper for my directed study on issues related to open access to educational materials and copyright law. Here’s my working abstract:
In recent years, open access repositories have become increasingly popular tools for teaching and learning in the digital age. But copyright law remains a serious obstacle to these types of [...]

Here’s the announcement from Nicholas Reville at PCF:
“I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Miro 1.0.
With this launch, we are ready to build a movement for truly open video. We’re on a mission, we have a world-class product, we have an amazing community, and more and more open channels are being published every [...]

Over the summer, I’ve been working with ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education) Co-President Rob Williams and Flow Media Design’s Rick Hood on building a new website for our organization using Drupal. It’s been a crash course for me in learning Drupal, which has been a lot of fun. I’m still learning my way around, [...]

The photo above is a slide from Mara Hancock’s (UC Berkeley) presentation during the “Next Steps I - New Structures and Efficiences” session at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference. See more pics from Mara’s presentation and from the conference on Flickr.
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Ken Freedman of WFMU visited the Berkman Center today for a tuesday luncheon. Ken is General Manager of WFMU, which Berkman writes is “one of the earliest and most aggressive users of web-based radio and social technologies.”
Here are some of my notes from today’s talk, which as David Weinberger adds, “I’m typing quickly, summarizing, [...]

I’m finished with my first year of graduate school at Emerson College. It was a great start to what I think will be an even better second year based on a number of projects that I’m looking forward to working on.
I’m writing this post to help me organize some of the stuff going on. Let’s [...]

Eric Gordon (Emerson College), Dean Jansen (Berkman Center/Participatory Culture Foundation) and I convened a one-day working group session last Thursday (4/26) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society to discuss the potential of open source media publishing tools within online learning environments. Around 20 people were in attendence from a variety of academic and [...]

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Make Internet TV is up. The site looks great and has a lot of great resources for learning how to make your own video and audio recordings:
This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to [...]

There’s an all day Drupal Admin Bootcamp happening over at CCTV on December 10. From the website:
“Drupal is the open source content management of choice for many website designers, including our operations here at Cambridge Community Television. Blogs, forums, RSS syndication, e-commerce, audio and video, user management and more are built into this sophisticated [...]