Webcast Academy
Thanks to Clarence Fisher of Remote Access for leading me to a new open media resource, The Webcast Academy. Two actually. Teachers Teaching Teachers produces their webcasts at the Academy on the topics of…
Skyping, Webcasting, and Podcasting By and For Teachers
They leverage the academies’ rich portal which serves as a both a forum for the media, and at the same time as an indepth training resource for anyone interested in doing webcasts. It even has an apprenticeship program which I’ll have to take a closer look at.
Overview
The goals of the Webcast Academy include
- increasing the number of people who are capable of producing live, interactive webcasts
- applying the open source community approach to skill development
- creating a place that formally recognizes proficiency, excellence, and innovation in these new media skills
This looks to be a really amazing and open resource for teachers, learners and the general public alike to learn about and experience webcasting. I’d be very interested in hearing any experiences people have had with the Academy.
Of course these days there are always more than one way to skin a, err… to produce fine, useful media and distribute it to your audience. Doug has done nice video on Getting Started with Blogger, using the amazing YouTube as a publishing mechanism, which by all accounts is currently the leading video tool of choice.