How can you make your students and faculty members share their work and research with the world?
Give them the right tools: their own dedicated video-sharing website.
That’s what MIT is doing with MIT Tech TV, its own YouTube clone complete with video-sharing capabilities (including email and embedding code) and community-building features such as video producer profiles and comments.
So, what are exactly MIT Tech TV’s goals? Here’s the answer straight from the source:
- Make it easier for members of the MIT community – and others – to find science, engineering, and MIT-related video on the web
- Feature multimedia content appealing to and appropriate for people as young as 12
- Encourage the creation of web video by members of the MIT community by making it easier to publish and host video content
MIT Tech TV is a collaborative initiative of the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Libraries Academic Media Production Services. Our technology partner, blip.tv, is a start-up that’s grown out of the videoblogging community.
MIT Tech TV is still in beta, but you can already find some interesting (and unusual) videos posted by staff, faculty or students:
How to fold the MIT seal in origami (a bit long, but an incredible video by Brian Chan
While browsing the website, I also stumbled upon some videos by a group of freshman bloggers, the MIT Insite bloggers, a brand new initiative started this month at MIT. More about it in a future post.