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.

I just got wind via Mashable of a new live streaming service called Twitcam (formerly known as Mogulus). I had a bit of a play with it and found it exceptionally easy to use. Just login with your Twitter credentials, allow Twitcam to access your webcamera and start broadcasting. The service then pulls your data from Twitter to create a Twitcam profile – mine is here – including your followers and those you are following.
While broadcasting you’re automatically recorded for later playback. You can also quickly …

I’ve seen references to the Society of Geek Advancement for several months but haven’t been motivated to mention it until tonight when I saw Peter Black post this same video on his blog.
Initially I wasn’t really sure what the “I am a Geek” thing was all about, but reading into this a bit further, it appears that the motives behind the movement are several fold.
According to the Society for Geek Advancement about page:
“THE SOCIETY FOR GEEK ADVANCEMENT was founded upon the principles that we should all embrace our inner and …

As it turns out, the theme I recently upgraded to offers a template for full page layouts and I’ve decided to use that for the video section. This page now features an 800 x 550 pixel video player for a nice large look at my Blip.TV collection of screencasts and other video clips. So if you find these videos useful be sure to have a look.
To navigate through the collection use the left and right arrow buttons available in the lower left-hand corner of the player.
Remember too that …