Shawmut Education Video Blog

This week marked the kickoff of a new season of DITA meetings.

The first meeting of the season was held at PTC on September 10.

Here is a video of Tom Kinsley's opening remarks at the event.

You can also view the presentations of Jay Dupont and Paula Ploetz.

Another kickoff of sorts took place on Monday at DITA Island.

This is an excerpt of the previos podcast that features Shawmut Education Executive Director David Pearson providing an overview of web based social networking tools as well as a critique of a students My Space web page.

Here is the recently premiered Youth Voice Collaborative''s fresh and pipin'' hot youth produced media. You''ll see the premier of our latest Media Minds TV, a group produced short entitled "Domino Effect", and connect to the latest from our Media Minds web community. Help us celebrate the accomplishments of our peer leaders, and support YWCA Boston''s youth media.

Here is an excerpt of Tom Roulston's interview with Massachusetts State Representative Alice Wolf. This is an mov file so it will be interesting to see how this works given that all our other files are m4v. If it doesnt work we will update the file to m4v. We are still challenfged with losing enclosures of the previous podcasts. It also appears that there is still a problem with the server clock. The post styling is also still not in place. I am not quite sure what thats about. Lets also see what happens when we click te ITunes button on the right.

First we get the prompt to launch the external ITuns application and when ITunes pens up we see it is loading. Note screenshot.

Then after it is laded w see all the podcasts. The post podcast that is curent is selected by default.

When we press he play button the video plays in the little screen in the bottom right. Yes thats an mov so that works as well.

Here is the first promotional video for the Shawmut Education cable show "Homelessness With Hope".

Here is an excerpt of an interview with Shawmut Education Executive Director David Pearson conducted by Laura Montgomery on her "Lets Talk" cable program. The clip was edited and then shown as displayed here to one of the client track sessions at the 2004 NLADA Conference in Seattle.

Here is Tom Roulston's interview with Steve Gunn Esq. Steve is an attorney wth the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association (VLP). Shawmut Education Executive Director David Pearson serves on the Board of Directors of VLP.

Here is Tom Roulston's interview with Massachusetts State Representative Paul Demakis

Here is Tom Roulston's interview with Michael Sturdivant.

Here is Tom Roulstons interview with then State Representative Jarrett Barrios.