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“Drupal” is a downloadable software package that allows you to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on your website in a variety of ways. Drupal is powerful and it’s FREE. Ideal for artists, activists and community organizations who want a multimedia-rich website without spending thousands of dollars or depending on a website developer, Drupal allows you to amp up your site with all the “bells and whistles’” – including e-commerce, blogs, community forums, video, pod casting and much, much more. No knowledge of code required. Participants will each be given a Drupal installation on which they can begin building their sites. Bring your own laptop and get a hands-on and thorough introduction to the Drupal system and how it can work for you.

This workshop will introduce participants to new media concepts, processes and best practices for preparing, publishing and streaming media specifically destined for the web. Participants will be introduced to the applications, methods and tools for streaming media over the web including capturing, compressing and encoding tools, major streaming media formats and players, and multiple choices of free internet TV platforms and video channels (beyond YouTube) to host and distribute video.

Video on the web is every where but good video on the web is harder to find. This workshop will introduce participants to ways of shooting video specifically destined for the web and then prepare your media to be uploaded for the world to see. Participants will learn new media concepts and best practices, as well as practical and hands on techniques on how to shoot, compress, encode, upload and distribute your video and audio on the internet. The workshop will cover working with the major media formats such as Windows, QuickTime, Realplayer, and Flash.

First, there were web-logs or “blogs,” on-line personal journals that have redefined global communication and community. And now, there are video-web-logs or “vlogs,” which allow web users to post short videos, along with text, and music on the Internet. This workshops will guide participants through the steps of creating a blog and then look at the process of adding moving images to blogs. Come with ideas, text, images, digital video and prepare to experiment and create!

The digital video revolution gave us the tools to make media. The online video revolution gives us the power to distribute without gatekeepers. In this workshop see how innovative mediamakers are sharing personal experiences, telling otherwise-underrepresented stories, and revolutionizing what film and television can be. Learn what tools are available to you to distribute your work around the globe via the Internet, and get started setting up your own videoblog using free resources.