New uses for shooting and sharing video seem to arrive every few days, and one would be hard pressed to come up with a comprehensive list of all the practical, and not so practical, applications involving video. Our communication toolbox is becoming dramatically more powerful and changing our “human landscape” in myriad ways; for learning the core concept of “Flipped Classroom” has been enlarged and expanded by additional media creation and consumption approaches.
While some media production will be a totally DIY and casual level “learn by teaching” thing….. where being involved in creative production supports learning….there will also be needs for higher and more “expert” level production skills and capabilities.  PSA has undertaken to be an organization supporting various approaches, but falling somewhere notably short of the professional level studio with Hollywood level production values.
How short we ask? Hard to say, because in addition to all the cloud tools becoming available, the production equipment that is based on circuit boards is quickly becoming affordable, much as the old room size computers are now more powerful, and wearable on our wrists. IOW, you don’t need Hollywood levels of financing to produce very high quality video.
It’s not just production methodologies and techniques and levels of equipment however,  but also the art of presenting content via storytelling and narrative and the art of drama and cinema…and so one needs to develop capability on a number of fronts. We’ll have more to say on the “art of creating effective content” as we develop our core concepts for “What is Learning Today” video; this post is more about the technology and techniques than the art.
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One of the “How to do media production well” resources for DIY, prosumer, and professional….is Larry Jordan, who seems to be all over the web promoting “digital production” and does some very popular tutorials available online.
 Here’s a link to one of his sites for a network of resources he calls “Digital Production Buzz”… the “Official Podcast of NAB” and which he describes as “Talk Radio for Digital Production, Post Production, and Distribution Worldwide“.
Which, while quite ambitious, seems a bit strange, because “talk radio” and Digital Production seem to come from different planets.
They say old technology never really dies, it just gets repurposed. Which isn’t quite true because a lot of old technology does die….it’s more that we are sometimes surprised that not all of it dies. But worth noting that since aural is one of our available inputs, we will likely continue to use it for learning, when that suits us better than “watching something”.
So, using Podcast to talk about visual media is not all that weird.