ICTP WS 2007/Workshop announcement

I am co-organising a workshop in Trieste, December 2007: http://sdu.ictp.it/richmedia/. The workshop seeks to "guide scientists from developing countries to become acquainted with state-of-the-art, low cost and/or open source resources available for [rich media webcasting] and thus help to reduce the digital and knowledge divides. Lecturers will familiarize participants with the most advanced techniques of Multimedia Webcasting for science dissemination and collaboration." A poster is available here http://sdu.ictp.it/richmedia/Poster_smr1838.pdf The workshop programme is available here http://sdu.ictp.it/richmedia/program/index.html (Registration is closed.)

At this workshop, I will be teaching a short course on multimedia production. Each course session is two hours long, and will start with a short amount of 'theory' (giving an overview of general activities in that area, and overall considerations). Most of the session will the be taken up by hands-on work.

A very tentative schedule for the course is this:

• Session 1
  • The academic media landscape
  • Principles of audio recording and editing
• Session 2
  • Rich media delivery and bandwidth requirements
  • Introduction to 'images'
• Session 3
  • How podcasting works
  • Creating enhanced podcasts
  • Understanding workflows and server requirements
• Session 4
  • An introduction to rights and licensing
  • Understanding local requirements - getting started back at home
• Session 5
  • Introduction to video - review of best practices for video streaming

Some elements of this course are likely to draw on themes from my Podcast Course M2007.