After my final class of Videoblogging Production last night, I’m already thinking about how I can do things differently next time. Thanks to my students who provided precious feedback about the course, I’ve decided to organize the sessions much more practically. For example, I’m thinking that the three sessions should be organized as follows:

• Session I: Shoot
• Session II: Edit
• Session III: Upload

This probably seems obvious for folks with experience. My intent with the last course was to focus more on storytelling and less on editing. However, I found that students were interested more on editing to help the storytelling apects of their pieces. So, next time I think I will re-focus the course to follow in a more natural progression.

In the meantime, I posted a link on my CCTV blog about how to capture stills (image above) from a Flip Mino Video camera using QuickTime Pro.

Also, here are two of the finished video blog posts for the course, one by Paula Cohen and another by Susan Needleman.

I look forward to teaching the course again in the fall.

Today, David Ardia, Sam Bayard and I launched the first Citizen Media Law Podcast. This new weekly podcast series, produced by the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will cover a range of issues relating to the intersection of citizen media, journalism and the law.

Here’s more from the post:

This week, David Ardia responds to the federal shield bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, Colin Rhinesmith talks about legal threats to co-bloggers, and Sam Bayard reflects on the Phoenix New Times arrests.

To subscribe to the podcast, visit the subscriptions page or go directly to the podcast feed.

I’d like to welcome Mike Deehan, as the new Multimedia Production Coordinator, to the Berkman Center. Here’s a bit from my email to Mike and the Berkman community today:

Mike brings an exciting background in journalism and new media to the center, as Deputy Online Editor for the New England News Forum, a former intern at National Journal’s CongressDaily and Conference Technology Coordinator for the Media Giraffe Project in Amherst, MA.

Mike will be taking over as point person for media projects at Berkman, including webcasting, podcasting, video production, and other related efforts, as I move into my new role as a Producer for the Citizen Media Law Podcast, debuting later this week.

Please join me in welcoming Mike to Berkman!”

MediaBerkman has a new look. It’s a work-in-progress based on the Barthelme theme by Scott Allan Wallick. I hope to get the audio & video feed links back up soon. In the meantime, listen to danah boyd’s talk at the Berkman Center. Video coming soon.

I just learned from Larry Gallagher over at MIT about their new blip.tv powered MIT TechTV. It’s fun to see how they worked with blip.tv to reconfigure the interface to suit their needs. The layout is similar to some of the ideas found in the demo/mockup of our Open Media Library project (insert shameless plug). I also like how they’ve brought in the feed from their MIT TechTV blog.

Only folks at MIT can upload. The terms of use are laid out very clearly. I would think they might be helpful to other academic institutions looking for examples of guidelines to promote institution-wide video creation and sharing.

Another very cool thing about the site is they’ve got the feed coming in from the Yahoo Groups Videoblogging List. They’ve also included a nice list of on-campus Camera Access, Editing, and other production resources available on the site.

There’s a lot going on here. I look forward to spending some more time “tuning in”.

Mark Frydenberg invited me back to Bentley for a CIS Presents lecture this past Monday to discuss creative uses of social networking tools in education. I spoke to a room of about 60 students about my collaborative graduate thesis project and the tools I’m using to allow others to participate in sharing their experience and knowledge.

The podcast is available for download from the CIS presents blog.

The Chronicle for Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog discusses “How Digital Libraries will Change Academe” with Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle.

In the inaugural installation of The Chronicle’s new weekly podcast series, Mr. Kahle offers a progress report on his project and outlines his vision for the future of digital libraries.

The Center for History and New Media recently launched a podcast titled, “Digital Campus“. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement:

“CHNM is happy to announce the launch of a new podcast, Digital Campus, now available from iTunes and http://digitalcampus.tv

The biweekly roundtable will discuss how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums.”

Eric Gordon (Emerson College) recently gave a talk at Hamilton College titled, “Classroom 2.0: How Online Social Networks are Transforming Academic Life.” Hamilton made it available as a podcast.

Here’s an excerpt from the event description:

Students are entering college with different social patterns, learning habits and cultural expectations. They are consuming and producing within global networks, and have come to demand instant gratification and constant connectivity. So how can colleges and universities respond to this cultural shift without compromising their ideals and mission? How can social networking in the classroom actually increase engagement and productivity? And how can this “culture of participation” work in accordance with existing standards of academic productivity, just as it is transforming the nature of academic work?

Eli Kao, Membership Coordinator and Online Community Developer for CCTV, interviews AliveinBaghdad.org Founder Brian Conley on his CCTV blog, titled Community Media Near and Far.

Listen to the the full, unedited interview (49min).