Student TV producers get the green light: higher ed organizations form new student TV network.On campuses across America students are toiling away in media studies departments and TV studios, producing their own news shows, dating games and comedy sketches. Now there is a way for them to broadcast their efforts to a bigger audience. The OPEN Student Television Network made its debut this spring with the mission of helping students share their work and (earn from each other. The new student television station A student television station is a television station run by university or high or middle school students that primarily airs school/university news and in many cases, student-produced soap operas, entertainment shows, and other programming. is a joint project of the Campus EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. Consortium and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the 2. The consortium (www.camuseai.org) is a non profit made up of member colleges and universities who share open source software and digital content. Internet2 is the high-speed bandwidth reserved for education and non-commercial purposes. Together they will keep OPEN operating. All colleges and universities that use Internet2 will be able to broadcast OPEN. Viewers will access the archived student-produced TV shows via a "video on demand" format played through the Windows Media Player Digital jukebox software for Windows from Microsoft that plays a variety of audio, video and streaming formats including MP3, WMA, CD audio and MIDI. Starting with Version 6.2 in 1999, the Windows Media Rights Manager was added for securing copyrighted content. , which is available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. in Windows and Mac OS formats. Colleges and universities participating in OPEN send their finished broadcasts to the consortium. Some are supplied via FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to files, others come on DVDs or tape, says Rich Griffin, senior technical leader of OPEN. The consortium converts the formats. Currently, 30 IHEs are participating, but Griffin expects the number to grow. "A lot of these shows are really good," he says. "It was a shame no one else could see them." Well, it was a shame until now. For more information about OPEN, visit www. ostn.tv. |
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