Academic Media Community

An integrated social media solution for colleges, universities and K-12 to collaborate, learn and grow.

Create a vibrant hub of engaged students, teachers and staff using the Academic Media Community at your school. Students, teachers and administrators have their own content creation environment on the web, complete with an online video edit suite to create, edit, collaborate and post content, projects, assignments, lab work, events, sports and more. It starts here.

Academic Media Community Overview video:

Academic Media Community Links

Academic Media Community: “How To” Videos

Academic Media Community Demo – Play around with the application.

Community Documentation - All you need to know about how to skin, tweak and manage the application.

A Compelling Learning Environment

It doesn’t matter where you are or what time it is. This integrated social media environment keeps you connected and on track. You can upload, share, connect, participate, exchange ideas, create projects, collaborate on assignments, comment and learn from faculty, other students and the world at large. The Academic Media Community includes the Filemobile Media Community integrated with the FORscene content creation and collaboration tool. It is a web-based social media environment customized with individual edit suites for every student, faculty and administrator on the system.
A truly inclusive educational environment.

Social Media is Easy to Use

The Academic Media Community comes with a whole suite of social media services customized for your school. Learning objects, assignments, projects, presentations and lectures can be created, shared, featured, tagged, viewed, discussed, repurposed and archived for future use. You have a choice of making content you create available for viewing for everyone on the school system that you share your platform with or you can keep it hidden until you are ready to share. Learn more about the Media Community functionality here: Media Community.
You are an integral part of your school community.

FORscene edit suite – Best on the planet

FORscene provides individual web-based editing suites for every person in the school who is part of the Academic Media Community. You can upload video, photos, audio and text to compose and create video presentations. Lectures can be “chaptered” into bite sized learning modules that are engaging and can be viewed multiple times to reaffirm learning. FORscene provides a private tutorial learning environment for collaboration with a private chat function accessed by invitation only.
Here’s what else FORscene within the Academic Media Community can do for your school:

• 1. Create and Distribute: Learning development objects (i.e. demonstrate lab work) and class work can be created and distributed within the Academic Media Community
• 2. Facilitate: Information transfer, exchange, analysis, sharing and peer review using video/audio/graphics
• 3. Collaborate: Collaborate on projects simultaneously, locally or globally, from any location at any time; accommodate busy extra-curricular activities and part-time work schedules
• 4. Evaluate: Post video-taped lab work for review and evaluation by teachers; peer discussion
• 5. Integrate and aggregate RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds: Transform the class into a global learning environment
• 6. Store and Repurpose: Video, audio and photos can be stored and catalogued for easy retrieval and reuse for ongoing school assignments
• 7. Streamline Subject “Channels”: Create web-based video “subject channels” for teachers of the same subject to share and archive learning content; post class homework, projects, and assignments; provide resources
• 8. Enrich Distance Learning: Collaborative on-line learning and distance learning using rich media (video/audio/graphics)
• 9. Showcase Video Portfolios: Faculty and Student Video Portfolios - (i.e. Students create a gallery of work in their graduating year.)

Using Rich Media Makes Learning Richer

Multi-sensory learning is engaging and it has been proven that engaged learners, learn better. The Academic Media Community provides teachers and students a platform of riches to use, enjoy and share all on the web. Video, audio and photos in multiple formats can be uploaded. They can be mixed and matched. Photos can be transformed into video using FORscene.
All these riches, and more, are accessible with a click of a button.

Your School is Your Brand – Facebook Connect

Producing rich media content and having a controlled private, public or global distribution network helps schools to build their brand. Notable works by students and professors can be shared, fundraising events can be shared, community involvement can be captured. Login with Facebook is an option.
Your school brand and messaging now has controlled global reach.

Single Sign-On

Register once and use your school registration number to access your individual Academic Media Community dashboard. You are in the driver’s seat. It takes wisdom to lead and wisdom to follow. You can do both. There’s no obstacle to secure and safe participation and inclusion within the Academic Media Community.
Your school login connects you to the Academic Media Community.

Alumni

Alumni can now have their own integrated media community with which to stay connected to the school and each other. They too can have access to their own rich media environment to inform, update, create, share and fundraise. Geo-tagging can be used to connect the Alumni across the globe.
Stay connected.

Sports in HD

Capture and upload all your school sports events and post them on a dedicated Sports Media Community.
Stay tuned in HD!