Rich Media Resources: PhilosophyGeneral Resources

• OpenCulture content rich site that styles itself a “giude to smart media”. Much free media are gotten via feeds from the iTunes store.
• New York Public Library digital media collections and audio/video webcasts. The NYPL on iTunes U (requires the iTunes application for access).
• MERLOT: (Multiimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) An excellent rersource for peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.
• Some free resources on a wide variety of subject areas among others that are for sale at LearnOutLoud.com.
• Wide selection of mp3 audio books in the public domain at LibriVox.
• Art Images for College Teaching: AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.
• Pod Safe Audio, an easily browsable site that collects and distributes Creative Commons-licensed music for podcasts and other casting uses.
• The Internet Archive has thousands of audio, video, and Open Education materials that are creative-commons-licensed and available for use in many different formats. Pay special attention to the Prelinger Film/Video archive, which has a ton of great footage from public domain that can be downloaded, edited, and remixed at will.
• See also, Universal Newsreels – Universal City Studios gifted Universal Newsreel to the American people, put the newsreels into the public domain, and gave film materials to the National Archives in 1976.
• Ed-Cast, the online “Higher Education Podcast Repository” is intended to serve as an international clearinghouse for the sharing of available lectures, conversations, speeches, and related podcasts for higher education worldwide.
• Historical documents at the National Archives
• Podomatic: Create, Find, Share Podcasts
• Business English Pod – Business-English (ESL) podcasts for “professionals on the move.”
• Education Podcast Network – From EPN: “The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century. Most of the producers of these programs are educators … . Warning: Due to the nature of the Internet, the provider of this service can not assure the appropriateness of the programming that is available beyond this web site. This web site is intended for professional educators and all audio content should be previewed … before being made available to students.”
• Webcast Berkeley – A diverse collection of lecture sessions captured in smart classrooms, representative of perhaps the easiest educational podcasting to do, but not very iillustrative of techniques for other other types of rich asynchronous applications. Some sessions may be illustrative of techniques or production values one should avoid as, for example, sometimes displayed documents are too small to be seen given restricted screen size and video resolution. See also the page on Policies & Copyright. “The Regents of the University of California retain the copyright of all media recordings offered through webcast.berkeley (ETS). These recordings are licensed to end users based on the preference of faculty participants and/or content providers, webcast.berkeley (ETS) can license media recordings in a variety of ways. Beginning in 2007, the default license attached to media recordings for disctribution is Creative Commons – non-commercial, attribution, no derivatives (CC2.5 license).”
• TeacherTube – Launched in March,2007 with an objective to to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. It is also vehicle and community for professional development with teachers teaching teachers and a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. TeacherTube videos can be embedded in webpages using snippets of code that can be copied from web site. The service is free for everyone.Familiarize yourself with the terms of use and licensing notices.
• The Khan Academy – The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. It has 600 videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.

Rich Media Resources by Subject Area

• Philosophy
• Business English Pod – Business-English (ESL) podcasts for “professionals on the move.”
• History

Video Examples

• Guerilla video techniques with big impact: “Back in the old days (say 2001) it was very expensive to create instructional video. Nowadays, the ubiquity of cheap digital video cameras, huge graphic cards and sleek but powerful editing packages (go iMovie!) allow for some amazing results. In other words, you can make powerful gorilla teaching videos in your garage. These are examples where editing and crafting a story (instructional design) trump production values. Do you need makeup, lighting, high resolution video, “fidelity” to teach? Nope. What you DO need in spades is quality instructional design – cutting the concept to the sharpest point and pounding it home with deft delivery. Are we losing the beauty and texture of $500/minute production house video? Maybe. But we have also increased dramatically the return on investment.” – Jeremy Kemp , Nov. 2007
• mediatedcultures.net @ kansas state university
• Quick and Short Explanations

Lessig – Free Culture, Copyright and the Future of Ideas

Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas. After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences around the world with multi-media presentations that inspired the Free Culture movement, Professor Lessig is moving on from the copyright debate and setting his sites on corruption in Washington.

History of Mashups

A work-in-progress clip from OpenSourceCinema.org, a collaborative documentary project to create a feature film about copyright in the digital age.

Resources

CUNY Materials

• iTunes U Presentation – Copyright & Fair Use.ppt – This Powerpoint presentation was given by Jane E. Davis, Esq., Assistant General Counsel, CUNY Office of Legal Affairs at the pilot-project launch meeting on April 11, 2008.
• Copyright Materials – A primer on copyright from the Office of Legals Affairs and the General Counsel.
• Do I need permission? – Information from the Office of Legal Affairs and the General Counsel on the TEACH Act, Fair Use and guidance on determining how copyrighted material can be used.
• CUNY Intellectual Property Policy
• File Sharing and Copyrighted Material (CUNY Office of the General Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs)
• Interactive Guide to Using Copyrighted Media in Your Courses (Baruch College)

The TEACH Act

TEACH (“Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act” ) says it is not copyright infringement for teachers and students at an accredited, nonprofit educational institution to transmit performances and displays of copyrighted works as part of a course if certain conditions are met. If these conditions are not or cannot be met, use of the material will have to qualify as a fair use or permission from the copyright holder(s) must be obtained. Links to toolkits, checklists and additional commentary on the TEACH Act can be found here.

Fair Use

Fair use is a doctrine in U.S. copyright law that places limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright holders under certain conditions. An overview, additional information on what fair use is, what constitutes a fair use of copyrighted material and guidelines can be found here at the Copyright Clearance Center, Consortium of College and University Media Centers and at the U.S. Copyright Office.

Creative Commons

The Creative Commons organization, in their words, “… provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use [Creative Commons licensing] to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.” Click here for more information. See also: Creative Commons: A New Tool for Schools, Howard Pitler

Miscellaneous

• MIT Open Courseware: Intellectual Property Clearance Process
• Video, education, and the law – best practices: A video selection from the three day symposium Video, Education, and Open Content: Best Practices: Production, Distribution, Technology, and Law held May, 2007 at Columbia University
• The Copyright Advisory Network of the American Library Association: links to many resources on various topcs including Copyright Basics, Education and The TEACH Act, Fair Use, International Copyright, Licensing, Locating Owners and Seeking Permission and Statutory Law.

Subject Matter Coordinators

Introduction

Commentary

Resources

• The iTunes U Assessment Support Project provides assistance to universities and colleges using iTunes U on their campus. The project provides a set of online resources to assist institutions better understand and enhance their implementation of iTunes U. These resources include: a student survey, a faculty survey, resources, advice and discussion

Subject Matter Coordinators

Introduction

Commentary

Resources

Project Overview

CUNY Academic Affairs is sponsoring the effort to bring together the vast and able resources of the university’s faculties, academic technologists, Centers for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, and students to develop a body of best practices, to identify technologies and processes and to integrate the university’s Learning Management system with the iTunes U platform in ways that enhance teaching and learning.

Download the briefing document here: CIS Briefing document – iTunes U academic prot3.pdf

Project Objectives

The four broad outcomes that the pilot project has been designed to foster are:

1. Technology: Promote the use of technologies and practical processes for producing or adapting quality and appealing audio and video content to a teaching and learning objective.
2. Collaboration: Foster an environment of supportive and results-producing collaboration where information technologists and instructional experts support faculty and student providers and consumers of rich media content.
3. Creative, Usable Enhancements: Demonstrate the ability to incorporate faculty- and student-driven enhancements into a learning process influenced by the creative use of audio and video content.
4. Pedagogical Best Practices: Encourage the development of best practices and demonstrate how these can be shared and incorporated into well designed, outcome-focused rich media content and associated learning activities.

FAQ – Rules of the Road

1. Controlled Access to Content: By definition and for the purposes of the pilot project, access to CUNY iTunes U academic, teaching & learning content is limited to faculty, students and staff of The City University of New York, its constituent colleges, schools and programs. In almost all instances, controlled access to such content is via Blackboard and a building block that allows students and faculty to access iTunes U audio, video and PDF content from within a Blackboard course (Blackboard and iTunes U Integration). If, as is the case with the Macaulay Honors College, there is no instance of Blackboard, another method, such as leveraging the college’s LDAP or Active Directory Identity Management/Access Management facilities.
2. General Public Access to Content: Access by the general public to CUNY content, whether that content is promotional, academic, informational in nature, is provided for in the Public, Community Affairs track under the sponsorship of CUNY University Relations.
3. Control over iTunes U Site and Blackboard Integration: The academic administration (including Academic/Instructional Computing) and faculty at each college, school or program will have control over the the design of iTunes U courses and the content placed into such courses.
4. Blackboard and Peer Review of Posted Content: Since for most access to content will be via Blackboard courses, and since a primary objective of the pilot is to share and collaborate we urge that you use your test instance of Blackboard to create test courses with which iTunes U content can be associated. To ensure that participants from other campuses can access your courses and associated audio, video files we ask that you create test courses to which “Guests” have access. Notification of the availability of content and a call for peer review can be sent to all participants viathe project discussion group. Contact the project manager if you encounter any difficulty accessing the discussion group.

Subject Matter Areas

• Access Control Considerations
• Assessment: Gauging Outcomes
• Blackboard and iTunes U Integration
• Content Creation for Faculty
• Intellectual Property Considerations
• Pedagogy: Best Practices
• Pedagogy: Resources
• Rich Media: Resources on the WWW

Campus Coordinators