[Editors] MIT Internet TV seminar

[Elizabeth Thomson]

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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Senior Science and Engineering Editor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
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Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

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>Internet Television and Building Communities: Using Web Video to 
>Support Education, Research and Outreach
>Larry Gallagher, Director, MIT Video Productions
>Chris Boebel, Manager, Multimedia Development, MIT Video Productions
>David Tames, Producer/Editor, MIT Video Productions
>Friday Feb., 2, 2007, 2-3:30 pm
>Room 32-141
>Open. No advance sign-up required.
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>Come hear about early-stage plans for a YouTube-like offering at MIT 
>and share your ideas. Help shape the vision!
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>Internet video, it seems, is suddenly everywhere. In less than a 
>year, YouTube and video podcasting have become cultural phenomena, 
>presenting everything from slick network and studio fare to ultra 
>low budget user-generated content. Plans are currently being made to 
>launch a "YouTube for MIT," tentatively called TechTV. The site will 
>focus on supporting science and technology education for the MIT 
>community and beyond. It will serve as an aggregator of existing MIT 
>web video, and provide a publishing venue for user generated content 
>with a science focus. Its goals will be to serve a number of MIT 
>communities: faculty, students, the administration, alumni, and 
>prospective students, as well as to foster new communities dedicated 
>to creating and sharing media about science and technology. The 
>Dean's Office of the School of Engineering is leading this effort. A 
>pilot offering of TechTV will be a "channel" focused on outreach to 
>secondary school students to inspire them to pursue engineering 
>studies.
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>This seminar will examine the rise of Internet video and 
>user-generated content on the web. We'll go through the Internet 
>video publishing process and look at  best practices for using video 
>on the web. Come discuss how these new distribution technologies 
>might best serve the MIT Community. We welcome your input!


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