Wednesday May 14
6-9 p.m.
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This class is ideal for people who are interested in learning more about how to use the web to create and share media online. This is a one-session primer on the fastest, easiest and free-est methods of publishing text, photos, audio, and video using services like Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, YouTube and Blip.tv. We will also discuss DIY options for hosting your own website and services.

Pre-requisite: solid mouse, keyboarding and file/window/ management skills.

Want to enroll? Email Shaun Clarke or call (617) 661-6900 x128.

(Photo above by Ben Sheldon available under a Creative Commons license)

New England Ethnic News is a project of the Center on Media & Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The website, Ethnic Newz.org, adds:

"We hope to bring together the following siloed elements of our region: voices from different ethnic groups and cultures; the best stories from more than 100 ethnic media of New England; teens and student journalists, teachers and coaches from UMass Boston and the local mainstream media; news consumers of all kinds; research; links to community, business and government resources; and opportunities to connect across our cultures." read more...

Here are the notes from a discussion that Aubree and I recently had about planning a public forum to discuss the possibilities of using the virtual world Second Life, here at CCTV:

Overview

Invite CCTV members and Cambridge residents to:
o Learn more about communities in Second Life
o Give input on uses of SL @ CCTV
o Ideally the event is, itself, an example of using the medium to facilitate conversation and inspire new ideas and new approaches

Presentation - June 24, 2008

Very very very basic introduction to SL
o Define avatar (what are we looking 'at'?)
o Movement (teleport/fly)
o Inventory (just so they know where stuff is coming "from")
o Lindens (as briefly as possible)

What role can SL play?
o Broadcast medium
o Production format
o Teaching & learning tool
o Meeting space

Show examples of SL communities
o Political campaigns
o Artist community
o Video/film community
o Machinema
o Education/NMC Campus read more...

From WCCA-TV:

"Do you watch video on your computer?

Do you appreciate public access programming?

There's now a "Public Access TV" version of the popular video player Miro, which comes pre-loaded with several free channels of public access programming.

Click to download:

* Windows .exe (25MB)
* Mac .dmg (20MB)

If you are already a Miro user, you can click the button below to subscribe to all the public access channels: read more...