I'm experimenting on this page with different ways of reorganizing the contents here: digital video resources.

I'm documenting the process because, if I understand correctly, the process I use for doing this kind of stuff might be useful to teachers setting up their own social networking classroom.

1. So here I have a page of resources that not only need to be recatagorized, but I think I'm going to be a little redundant in my methods for cataloging them. For instance, a link to something general like a "Digital Video Magazine," such as "videomaker.com" - would be stuck over in a "Magazines" list, while more specific links from within the magazine would also be linked to directly. For instance, in the "how-to" section.

This is a common situation on websites where there are basically good links in there, but because it takes so long for a student to find what they're looking for, they might give up quickly. I err on redundancy - meaning I like to organize links around a train of thought as much as an actual "category."

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So for "videomaker.com" - I will first list that alphebetically under "digital video magazines" (which might just become "magazines" - since it's already on a "Digital Video Resources" page. But since I don't actually know if there's even going to be a page as broad as "Digital Video Resources" when I'm through with things, I'm choosing to leave "digital video" in the title, till I know it's safe to take it out.

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Other categories of resources on this page include:

1) video editing resource websites
2) TOP 5 beginner resources (as we discussed)
3) software tools - (I always arrange these by platform and license - open source, etc)
4) videoblogging history and background
5) videobloggers to watch
6) articles on monetizing your site
7) collections of content available for reuse (like the IA movie archive)
8) idea: perhaps some licensing information in here - cc etc.
9) organizations
10) videoblogging advocacy
11) videoblogging distributors and channels

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The other thing we talked about was having a clear, one or two sentence description for each resource, which I think is really important.

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Another decision we need to make is whether we want to keep having these really long pages of resources that you need to scroll through - or if we want to break these into their own smaller pages for the new wiki. I have mixed feelings as I love to be able to scroll down the page and see everything available, but I also like to have an index of the categories contained on that page at the very top. I'm thinking about how we can do both.

k back to it! All feedback appreciated!