Project New Media Literacies

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	Why We Love TechTV By Anna van Someren on September 23, 2008 6:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments (0) MIT's TechTV has become a much-loved and irreplaceable local hosting service for NML's videos. During the summer, as Jenna McWilliams and her team worked to finish the first in a series of innovative multimedia teachers' guides, they were uploading new videos up on TechTV daily. These videos are now available for educators and learners at the 7 school locations where the Guide is being piloted. As I lead the hyper-productive Learning Library (LL) team, we are using TechTV as a resource daily as well. As I finish editing videos, I upload them and send the links to the LL team, who then view them and consider using them in multimedia learning challenges that teach the new media literacy skills. Top 5 Reasons We Love TechTV: The fact that YouTube and other video websites are often blocked by schools makes TechTV an essential resource for the distribution of our educational material. TechTV understands how Fair Use works, and that is crucial for our project. We create multimedia materials that teach the new media literacies, and one of these is appropriation. It's incredibly difficult to teach appropriation without appropriating - believe me, I've tried. TechTV offers CreativeCommons licensing. TechTV is a community. We used to host our videos on google video. It's really great to have them featured on TechTV as a part of the MIT community. I find myself learning about other initiatives at MIT that wouldn't have known about without this resource. Excellent features, including tagging. Check out all the Learning Library videos we have on TechTV - with recent additions including the entire "Report from Wikimania" series and the entire "DJ Culture" series. Categories: Learning Library, video Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info? Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

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