Wikiversity Reports

Welcome to the Wikiversity Reports learning project. The Wikiversity Reports podcast is a way to learn about podcasting while producing podcasts that are useful to the Wikiversity community.

History of Wikiversity 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.

List of existing Wikiversity Reports episodes

Monthly reports on the Wikiversity project

Click above to view Wikiversity Monthly Report 3

Launch of the French language Wikiversity.

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

RSS

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

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

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).

Plans for new webcasts

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.

Plans for a new syndication feed

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 Wikiversity 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)

Participants

User:JWSchmidt

External links

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