Intelligent Television

Video for culture & education

Research

Building a New Form of Production Studio

Intelligent Television (with Channel Thirteen/WNET as its fiscal sponsor) has received two years of seed support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to establish a new Open Education Video Studio to catalyze and coordinate video production for the open education resource movement.

The Open Education Video Studio will cost-effectively produce educational video for university needs and make it broadly available. The Studio also will evaluate the use of such video in teaching and learning and build new tools for more cost-efficient video production and distribution worldwide. The Studio’s Production unit will cost-effectively produce educational video for university needs and make it broadly available, catalyzing new open production initiatives at educational institutions and through educational consortia. The Studio’s Research and Development unit will evaluate the use of such video in teaching and learning and build new tools—editing, annotation, search, summarization—for more cost-efficient video production and distribution worldwide.

In its first year, the Studio also will host intensive meetings for educators, technologists, video producers, and other stakeholders who together will help to articulate a sustainability plan for the studio’s productions and research and development projects. In its second year, the Studio will work to organize new multi-institutional collaborations into a distributed educational video production network, and help establish a new educational video commons to define best practices in video preservation and access.

For further information about Intelligent Television projects and productions, or to get involved, please contact the company.

What we're writing

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Tools to explore

Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a web-based learning environment that enables students to view, analyze, and communicate ideas with video. VITAL was originally created to help students practice their observation and interpretation skills in developmental psychology courses at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Today VITAL is deployed in a wide range of courses and disciplines across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.

Archives for today

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

The San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, established in 1982, preserves more than 4,000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries, and other programs produced in northern California between 1939 and 2005. Among the treasures recently put online are 1960s films of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou and Marlon Brando speaking at the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. The Archive is part of San Francisco State University Library’s Department of Special Collections.

What we're watching

Forum Network
Involving public media and partners in video online.

Vectors
A new journal in a dynamic vernacular.

Photograph of Jesus
Plus a group shot of the men on the moon.

What we're reading

Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009. Visit Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads

http://wendy.seltzer.org/anticircumvention.pdf

Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for [...]

AIMS project / born digital archives

"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, [...]

Digital Lives

Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July. Visit Digital Lives