Rising Voices New Media Guide

This outline will hopefully be turned into a comprehensive, multilingual outreach curriculum to be used by Rising Voices outreach projects and anyone else interested in teaching the skills of citizen media to new groups. By using Screencasts we can visually show how to take advantage of each of these tools and distribute them in different languages by creating new audio narratives or subtitling the videos using http://www.dotsub.com/.

Blogging

1. Intro to Blogging (Screencast)
2. How to set up a blog on Wordpress.com (Screencast)
3. How to read others' blogs using RSS feeds (Screecast)

Existing Tutorials:

• http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/2007/07/05/1-how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress/ (how to install and setup WP)
• http://flash.screeniac.com/wordpress/wordpress.html?TB_iframe=true&height=590&width=1050
• http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/2007/07/05/1-how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress/
• http://www.davidrussell.org/2006/08/28/screencast-wordpress-installation/
• http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/2006/08/20/wordpress-quickstart-screencast-tutorial-1/
• http://www.freecharity.org.uk/category/wordpress-screencasts/
• http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/index.htm
• http://www.emilyrobbins.com/how-to-blog/
• http://www.dotsub.com/films/inplainenglish/index.php
• http://www.hyperteach.com/products/blogging-video-cd.htm
• http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/2007/03/19/6-get-a-blog/ (for Blogger.com).
• http://tutorialesvideo.pbwiki.com/crea+un+blog (spanish)

Photography

• Intro to digital photography (Screencast)
• How to edit photos using http://www.phixr.com/ (Screencast)
• How to upload photos to photo sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa Web, and Zooomr

Existing Tutorials:

Audio/Podcasting

• How to subscribe to Podcasts using Odeo (Screencast)
• How to record and edit audio with audacity (Screencast)
• How to upload audio to OurMedia (Screencast)
• How to embed audio on a blog and/or website (Screencast)

Existing Tutorials:

Video

• How to watch and subscribe to channels using Democracy Player (Screencast)
• http://makeinternettv.org/

Existing Tutorials:

How to create a videoblog:

• http://freevlog.org/tutorial (Spanish: http://tutorialesvideo.pbwiki.com/ - in progress)

How to create a rss feed, and watch and subscribe to a videoblog using feed agregators:

• http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/2007/03/19/8-get-an-rss-feed/