Learning portal and resources
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Objective
Create a learning portal for tutorials, howtos, podcasts, and other materials that will educate and empower consumers, content providers, and producers.
- Produce our own set of training and learning materials
- Present in multiple formats (audio, video, interactive)
- Openly syndicate and distribute
- Aggregate news and learning materials from other sources
- Provide an environment for collaborative learning and interactive workshops
Courseworks
(Just a random set of ideas)
Multimedia and online production
- Audio and video production
- Podcasting and videocasting
- Photography
- Building and managing an online community
- Drupal
- Producing learning materials and courseworks
- Producing concerts and events
Business and new media
- Trends in technology and new media
- Legal issues and developments in business and new media
- Building partnerships and strategic alliances
- Marketing and fundraising strategies
Music, Arts, & Culture
- Music/Arts education and appreciation
- Citizen Journalism and participatory culture
Examples, ideas, inspiration
Online tutorials and training
- Lynda.com - Online training for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.
- Pixel Corps - Online and real world training for digital media and production.
- Blip.tv Learning Center - The Learning Center is for those new to Web show production on blip.tv.
- BBC training center for New Media - Both online and in-person resources.
- Current TV Training - Extensive training for citizen journalists.
- Make Internet TV - A Web site devoted to making Internet TV by the folks who make the Democracy Player.
- Rich Media Institute - provides training, research and community services to Digital Media professionals.
- News University - committed to providing interactive, inexpensive courses that appeal to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media.
- Ourmedia learning center - a rich educational resource for everything you wanted to know about user-created video, audio, and other forms of citizens' media.
- J-Learning - a how-to guide for hyper-local community media.
- UC Berkeley Multimedia Training Program - for journalists who want to learn how to do a multimedia story.
- Freevlog - Everything you need to get started videoblogging now
- Node101 - an open source, collaborative project created to teach and spread videoblogging worldwide.
Reference
Production resources and guidelines
Public broadcasting provides a great deal of inspiration.
Music
Activism, Politics, Social Issues
- Arts Engine - supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public.
- Downhill Battle- a non-profit organization working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry.
- Music for America -engages young people in politics through music communities.
Education
- Edutopia - The George Lucas Educational Foundation was created to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.
- American Music Conference - goal is to build credibility for music and music education, especially at an early age, and to expand that portion of the population that enjoys and makes its own music.
- Artists House - a nonprofit music company dedicated to creating educational presentations in several areas, including instruction for instruments, master classes, careers in the arts, and legendary performers.
- American Society of Young Musicians
- Creating Music - a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages.
- eSchool News - news and information necessary to help K-20 decision-makers successfully use technology and the Internet to transform North America's schools and colleges and achieve educational goals.
- Music for All Foundation - committed to expanding the role of music and the arts in education, to heightening the public’s appreciation of the value of music and arts education, and to creating a positive environment for the arts through societal change.
- Musicedge.com - inform music fans about rising music trends, up-and-coming bands as well as inspire visitors to participate in active music playing by creating a strong virtual community.
- National Association for Music Education - advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all.
- Sesame Workshop - develops innovative and engaging educational content for television, radio, books, magazines, interactive media and outreach.
- Technology Institute for Music Educators - assist music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning in music.
- Rock'n'Roll Camp for Girls - encourage, engage and showcase the musical, artistic and individual talents of girls and young women ages 8-18, and to empower them with tools for self-reliance as a means to enhance and affirm positive self-esteem.
Tools and software
- Children's Music Workshop - products and services including custom designed band and orchestra method books, school site music instruction, instrument sales and rentals, music education advocacy and more.
- Harmonic Vision - developer and publisher of music education software for the home, school and studio
- Sibelius - software for writing, teaching and publishing music.
Additional resources
- MacJams - online community of people who are interested in creating or presently create music using the Macintosh platform, as well as people who are interested in listening to such music.
Video
- Show In A Box - Turn WordPress into the ultimate videoblogging platform
- Participatory Culture Foundation - mission is to build an open and democratic television platform.
- Vloggercon
Citizen journalism
Organizations
- Center for Citizen Media - aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.
- The Poynter Institute - a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders.
- News University - committed to providing interactive, inexpensive courses that appeal to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media.
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society - a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
- NewAssignment.Net - innovation in journalism by showing that open collaboration over the Internet among reporters, editors and large groups of users can produce high-quality work that serves the public interest, holds up under scrutiny, and builds trust.
