Open Educational Resources (OER) Reports

From September to November 2006 the podcast media files and the Web feed for Wikiversity Reports were hosted at a 60 day trial .Mac account. Starting in November, the Wikiversity Reports episodes are available for download from the Internet Archive. Some episodes have been converted to Ogg files.

The Wikiversity Reports podcasts are of several types. Some of the podcasts are periodical reports on the status of the Wikiversity project. Other reports are tutorials or "how tos" that explain features of the Wiki user interface. Other Wikiversity Reports podcasts describe some specific educational content of Wikiversity.

Monthly reports on the Wikiversity project edit

Month 1. report #1 <-- podcast format requires QuickTime -|- Ogg Video format --> Report #1.ogg (Help with Ogg video file play.)

Month 2. report #2 in podcast format requires QuickTime. Traffic statistics, launch of the Spanish language Wikiversity website.

Months 3 & 4. report #3 .mov screencast format; can be viewed with QuickTime or VLC Player. Ogg Video format --> Report #3.ogg (Help with Ogg video file play). Topics: frequently visited Wikiversity pages (see), French language Wikiversity website, logo update, OurMedia and Internet Archive.

Month 5. see below for plans

Copy this link and paste it into your aggregator (e.g. Juice Receiver, Bloglines) to stay up to date with Wikiversity reports.

Special short reports edit

• Special short reports.
  • QuickTime format <-- podcast -|- page --> Computer science program.
• Report on content development projects. School and Topic namespaces.
• A report on the 2006 Nobel Prizes (see also RNA interference, Eukaryotic transcription)
• Special Report on Web 2.0; a two minute-long infomercial encouraging people to edit Wikiversity. Ogg Video format --> Web 2.0 video, 9.3 MB download. (Help with Ogg video file play.)
  • Web 2.0 and copyleft; 7 MB download, modified version of the "Web 2.0 video", above. (Help with Ogg video file play). This video explores Web 2.0 and copyleft licensing of media files.

Tutorials edit

• Screencasting - For new wiki users: A short introduction to wiki editing (requires QuickTime or VLC player).
  • This screencast was made using Display Eater to capture screen images.
  • Editing tutorial <-- an OGG video format version of this screencast (does not require QuickTime, Help with OGG video file play).

• see Wiki Campus Radio#Sessions
• Reports for additional months of the Wikiversity project.
  • Logo contest update
  • Statistics- page creation
    • Page creation at various Wikiversity domains (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian)
    • Update on research and other policy discussions
  • most active Wikiversity pages
  • ..

• Tutorial about categories, portals, and navigation templates.

• The OurMedia website. - First trial upload. I'm still trying to figure out its system for syndication feeds; they seem to indicate that FireAnt will allow people to subscribe to media files uploaded at ourmedia. The Open Educational Resources (OER) Reports Blog has a conventional RSS feed.
• It might be best if the Wikimedia Foundation has a server devoted to experiments in multimedia formats such as podcasting. (example of special purpose servers)

• User:JWSchmidt

• Audio versions of the podcast are available via Wiki Campus Radio on a live audio stream.
• Podcasting
• Open Educational Resources (OER) Reports/test
• Open Educational Resources (OER) Reports/rss - example of how to set up an rss feed
• Open Educational Resources (OER):Reports - written reports on the project

• Podcast about Wikiversity Reports by Dave LaMorte - Teaching for the Future.
• Wikipedia Weekly