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

• 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

• 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