Wiki Campus Radio

Wiki Campus Radio is...
Wiki Campus Radio is a learning project to build a Web radio stylized webcasting service for Wikiversity community projects. It is a way to increase participation in Wikiversity while strengthening its community and extending its reach... more

Wiki Campus Radio is Free as in speech and Free as in Beer.

Participants
The userbase is always to be counted on for supplying requirements and specifications for hardware and software, creating audio content of all kinds and establishing how the WCR platform is built, operated and maintained.

Userbase
Add your name here!

User subgroups
All members of the userbase can select roles for themselves. See and edit the guidelines to discover where you might fit in or make a place for yourself if one has not yet been suggested.

User subgroups:
 * WCR/Custs - Wiki Campus Radio/Custodians
 * WCR/Devs - Wiki Campus Radio/Developers
 * WCR/Ops - Wiki Campus Radio/Operators
 * WCR/Tribs - Wiki Campus Radio/Contributors
 * ...add a subgroup...

You can require and specify what you want Wiki Campus Radio to be and do.

Anyone can be a part of the making of Wiki Campus Radio!

Learning Materials
For information on early test material see Early sessions

Sessions
While the Graphical User Interface (GUI) has served MediaWiki users well for all these years, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Internet Audio, Speech Synthesis, artificial intelligence, speech recognition and other once-futuristic notions have Netizens wondering, "What's Next?". Wiki Campus Radio may|might|shall|should|will|would|can|could provide the long-awated Sonic User Interface (SUI). The key is realtime control of user interfaces that deal with sound and speech.

Holiday Specials

 * Halloween Special: October 31st, 2008. Wiki Campus Radio aired a special schedule, see this page for listings.
 * Plans for similar specials - help wanted!

Planned sessions
The proposed Session: namespace may help put the io in Wikio – Audio Input/Output:
 * Session:Guitar Tuning see Guitar/Lessons for an example
 * Session:News Flash
 * Session:Interview
 * Session:Multi-Language
 * Session:Brainstorm
 * Session:Net Meeting
 * Session:Public Forum
 * Session:Test

Ideas for sessions and shows:
 * Daily News - a news report provided by wikinews and updates hourly
 * Across the Wikiverse - a "live" audio variety show hosted by Charley
 * Free Culture Roundtable - a talk show hosted by FreeCulture.org and Wikiversity
 * Discussion on various copyleft pod/*-casts, and ways to co-ordinate
 * Discussion about general production of audio material
 * New ideas for WCR - speaker's corner/voice colloquium, additional shows/topics
 * Interviews. Topics: technology and education.
 * a short infomercial about Wikiversity see Image:Wikiversity short.gif for a video version
 * Wikimedians about education - a live audio enquiry with Wikimedians from hole around the world about wiki and education
 * add a session idea
 * Discussion about common science fiction topics
 * Fiction writing, first discussion about Fiction writing support group and Science Fiction Challenge and a wiki novel: VirileMail
 * Music performances by users, using royalty free scores.
 * Replacement of phosphorus by arsenic in living organisms - audio chat discussion: example of NASA publicity gone too far?

Collaborative learning
WebcastAcademy.net Curriculum

Learning groups
Wiki Campus Radio is a major project crossing several areas of study:

Schools

 * School:Music
 * School:Speech
 * School:Sociology
 * School:Journalism
 * School:Linguistics
 * School:Public Affairs
 * School:Community Studies
 * School:Media Studies
 * School:Computer Science
 * School:Engineering and Technology
 * add a school

Divisions

 * Topic:Audio Engineering
 * Topic:Basic Blues & Rock
 * Topic:Internet Audio and Video
 * Topic:Announcing and Public Speaking
 * add a division
 * add a division

Departments

 * Topic:Licensing
 * Topic:Advertizing
 * Topic:Sound Recording
 * Topic:Music Production
 * Topic:News and Information
 * add a department
 * add a department

Resources
Whole Wheat Radio is an up-and-running "wikified" web radio station based in Alaska, USA with an international listenership. Their website uses an extensively modified version of MediaWiki and they have very tight real time communication which offers direct experience with online facilitation. Please check 'em out! • yeoman 16:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Categories
Active categories:


 * Category:Audio engineering
 * Category:Journalism
 * Category:Learning projects
 * Category:Webcasting
 * Category:Wikiversity culture
 * Category:Wikiversity School of Media Studies
 * 1) add a category

Propose a Category

 * Category:Multimedia Production