Background This post is my first attempt to articulate an evolving idea regarding the development of a platform to enable collaborative video projects that support the more creative aspects of the learning process.
Ever since I moved to the faculties from the central unit where I had been situated for the last 7 years, my brain has been experiencing a never-ending explosion of innovative ideas. Virtually every day I have a wacky new thought.
This is due in no small part to the fact I spent many years contemplating the theoretical possibilities …

Early this morning I attended a webinar presented by Kaltura called “Introduction to Open Video” and I thought I’d spend some time unpacking what was discussed, what I learned, and some outstanding questions I have that I’d like to investigate.
What is Kaltura?
For starters, Kaltura is a comprehensive framework designed and developed to support the production, editing, hosting and delivery of online video. It is also open source, with the company structure based upon an open model.

Update: This wiki project has been discontinued due to a combination of lack of usage on my part, as well as an influx of spam.
I’ve been meaning to launch a wiki for quite some time and have finally got ’round to doing it. After going back and forth on a platform for ages I’ve finally settled on a fairly customised instance of Drupal that I’ve outfitted to feature many of the same sorts of wiki functionality people are accustomed to in MediaWiki. The wiki is now available at: …

I’ve just joined the Social Media Classroom, a project initiated by Howard Rheingold and funded through a HASTAC award, provided by the MacArthur Foundation. This project seeks to empower and support learners and educators via new means of communicating, interacting and collaborating, and which emphasises the importance of “participatory pedagogy.”
From the website:
“The Social Media Classroom…includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social …

I’m doing a lot of work in Drupal at the moment and the thought occurred that an expanded explanation on the subject would be quite useful – if not now then at some point in the near future. So this post will seek to explain what Drupal is, what it does, and its customisation and extensibility options.
What is Drupal?
From a technical standpoint Drupal is a Content Management System, or CMS. That is, it enables people to set up sites that manage and deliver/present content, as well as facilitate …