05.22.07

from video to Internet Tv

Posted in future paradigms, video, web2.0 at 9:30 am by sbetts

I have been playing around with video and voice blogging on my personal site using flash videos and mp3 recordings, and I have been following postings to TeacherTube by educators around the globe. How can this get any better? How about your own internet TV channel?

Operator11 and MITV (Make Internet TV) are two ways. You can produce your own video and turn it into subscribable (RSS) media with a few clicks. I really like MITV as it takes you step by step through the internet / video process. At the end of the post I will embed their intro video for you to get an idea of their philosophy.

They also have an active WIKI open to anyone to join - if you turn into a real junkie:

  • The MITV Wiki is a library of information about publishing video on the internet.
  • This site is a supplement to the Make Internet TV video producer’s guide, which is the best starting point for most topics.

How about a weekly show about your classroom? or a student project a week? this has great potential. Here is the intro video from the MITV site:

Make Internet TV: Introduction



05.18.07

Trying to close Open Source

Posted in OpenSource at 2:58 pm by sbetts

Great quote at the end of the blog post by Sun’s CEO:

All of which is to say - no amount of fear can stop the rise of free media, or free software (they are the same, after all). The community is vastly more innovative and powerful than a single company. And you will never turn back the clock on elementary school students and developing economies and aid agencies and fledgling universities - or the Fortune 500 - that have found value in the wisdom of the open source community. Open standards and open source software are literally changing the face of the planet - creating opportunity wherever the network can reach.

I know that open source has been both a financial and a creativity lifesaver for me both personally and at my job. Although we use different Operating Systems in the schools of my district, we have loaded the machines with open source solutions to help the teachers integrate. Scribus, Open Office, GIMP, Audacity - the list goes on. To license the 100s of computers with proprietary programs to meet the same needs is fiscally impossible. Students gain, teachers gain and overall our society gains.

Just how difficult is it going to be to open our OS next purchase round?