Sharing and Remixing Rich Media

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Sharing and Remixing Rich Media

Non text-based media offers new opportunities and challenges for interoperability. Scenarios include offering a video or Flash interactive and making it available for direct embedding into a new presentation (Web page, podcast, PowerPoint, or CD-ROM/DVD) or re-editing for similar distribution. Changes might include language translation, accessibility enhancements, localized, updated, or age-appropriate content, or more appropriate navigation or graphic elements.

Examples:

• A teacher makes and posts a lesson plan using media from Teachers' Domain or other open repository
• A student makes a PowerPoint presentation
• An educational site makes an adaptation as described above.

Challenges:

• To be pedagogically effective or appealing to the user, the media may be complex in construction, highly formatted, and contain many elements with complex rights structures
• Remix may require relatively advanced editing, scripting, or design skills and access to specialized software, such as Flash

Enablers:

• Repositories of media like mediacommons and Internet Archive
• Provide good quality, editable video formats and appropriate source files
• Provide clear documentation for programming scripts and rights attributions
• Easy to use tools such as Kaltura or Scratch, where shared items all carry one license
• (technical) SMIL + Cocoon - imagine a tool which enables construction of composite multimedia presentations extracting clips from multiple distributed sources.