Video for culture & education
Intelligent Television (with Channel Thirteen/WNET as its fiscal sponsor) received 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 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.
The Studio also will host 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. And 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.
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MediaThread is a next-generation platform for deep exploration, close analysis, and customized organization of web-based multimedia content. Designed at Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, MediaThread is built on open-source software and enables users to view video closely, clip segments, attach annotations and tags, and organize them with other media for scholarly analysis.

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.
The Intelligent Channel presents a new stream of video for education and enlightenment. We knew this would happen!