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 and video assets.

Summer 2010

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

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)
• static demo (with saving in browser with HTML5)

Fall 2010

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

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Long Term
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Projects

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

Asset/Annotation List

• filter by user/tag
• 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
• ajaxify annotating
• color annotations by user

Discussions

• protected discussions
• 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)

Easy Course Starting

• better collection admin