Roadmap

The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) works on features targeting near-term project requirements. We use Mediathread in Columbia classes, and targets are mostly for the beginning of a semester: Summer (late June), Fall (September), or Spring (January).

Obviously, we’d be excited for others to work on the developing platform for fostering deep analysis of image, audio, and video assets.

Spring 2014

• Composition export / OAC compliance
• Search box
• Modular bookmarklet
• Research version of Mediathread

Fall 2013

• Prioritized tags support
• Improved bookmarklet flow (stay on site / go to Mediathread option)
• Addressable views
• Admin improvements
• Django 1.4.5 upgrade
• Scalar compatibility R&D

Summer 2013

• Improved sorting on home page
• Assignment due date field added to Save feature
• Columbia University Academic Commons bookmarklet support
• Google Art Project bookmarklet support
• mp3 audio bookmarklet support

Spring 2013

• Home page redesign, site tour
• Course migration feature
• Consolidation of Instruction Dashboard features into Settings nav bar
• flake8 compliance, Django code validation, further selenium test support

Fall 2012

• Annotation visibility toggle for instructors
• In-place annotation in composition space
• Improved UI for collections and item annotation interface

Summer 2012

• Major UI overhaul: sliding panels

Spring 2012

• Integration with Wardenclyffe video uploading at CU
• Bookmarklet compatibility with Vimeo and Kaltura
• Help standardization
• Multi-course navigation
• Instructor management of “Source Media”
• Instructor management of “Publish to the World”

Fall 2011

• home page redesign
• AJAX annotation

Summer 2011

• nomenclature user survey, standardization of terms

Spring 2011

• assignments feature – response tracking
• instructor’s dashboard
• multiple annotations view on individual item – images and video

Fall 2010

• improve class-from-scratch experience
• ?possible Geo support
• import/export of projects

Summer 2010

• Discussions (DONE)
• Mediathread rebranding (DONE)
• Quicktime debugging (DONE)
• Real Player support (DONE)
• transcript support
• Support http://openvault.wgbh.org/ video (DONE)
• refine discussions interface (DONE)

Extra

• ArtStor support (DONE)
• Gallery-view for assets in project essays
• Iterate on UI for asset adding/viewing/navigation
• <video> tag support
• private discussions (for professor feedback) (DONE)
• static demo (with saving in browser with HTML5)

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Long Term
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Projects

• user-level publishing to world (DONE)
• annotations directly embeddable in project text (waiting on firefox bug)

Asset/Annotation List

• filter by user/tag (DONE)
• show (image) annotations on thumb so people see ‘where’ the annotations are
• ability to create annotation/asset ordered ‘collections’

Full Asset View

• navigating/viewing multiple annotations on a single view (DONE)
• ajaxify annotating (DONE)
• color annotations by user (DONE)

Discussions

• protected discussions (DONE)
• students/regular users can start discussions on assets/annotations/projects

Outside World

• publishing embeddable annotations to arbitrary places on the web (with <iframe>)
• bookmarklets
  • get more metadata from current sources (gdata, OpenUrl/COinS, oEmbed=DONE, unAPI=DONE)

Easy Course Starting

• better collection admin (IN PROGRESS SPRING 2012)