Import into One Shared Space
Mediathread allows a small community – such as a class or a research group – to collect different media items (video, audio, images) from across the web and share them. Once they are collected in Mediathread, selections of these items can be created, tagged, and annotated.
An easily-installed browser extension allows visitors to external sites to collect items into Mediathread.
Make Selections
Mediathread supports close analysis and targeted reference of multimedia through its ‘create selection’ feature. A selection of any item collected in Mediathread can be created, saved, and shared -- and easily incorporated into compositions and discussions.
Annotating functions in Mediathread help users document their thoughts about a selection and tag it so that it can be organized, retrieved, and linked to other selections.
Substantiate and Illustrate Claims
Mediathread provides several contexts for producing analysis: discussion, composition, and sequence. When authoring in any of these contexts, users have easy access to the full Mediathread collection, so that selections can be easily incorporated into written analysis.
A selection is inserted into a composition so that it can substantiate a claim with quoted source material.
Create and Track Assignments
Instructors who use Mediathread with a class are able to create a variety of assignments, designate due dates and visibility for each assignment, track student responses, and provide individual feedback to these responses. Assignment dashboards help instructors and students organize their work.
The Mediathread assignment index helps students track upcoming due dates, submission status, and instructor feedback on their submissions.
Browse and Organize Collections
Once collected in Mediathread, items and selections of them are available to the whole class or group. They can be searched by title, owner, tag, term (for groups using controlled vocabularies), and date. Users can search across all items in Mediathread, or limit the search to just the items they’ve imported or worked on. In this way, Mediathread balances communal sharing and discovery with individual collection-building.
A number of search filters in Mediathread allow users to quickly find media they’ve collected or discover items and selections made by others.