From a Jisc press release:
Over 14,000 items of archived TV footage from 17 European countries are now available via the EUscreen online portal for teaching, research and general interest.
EUscreen – the result of a collaboration between 36 partners across Europe – provides a rich insight into Europe’s television heritage with content dating from the 1920s to the present day.
The portal includes rare footage and commentary on key events in history, including a 1962 interview with Martin Luther King about racial discrimination in the US.
John Ellis, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway and principal investigator on the EUscreen project, said: “This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in social history or indeed TV history, as it brings together tens of thousands of clips from across Europe. The portal is available to anyone (not only academics) and it is very easy to get absorbed and spend hours browsing all of the footage.”
The expansive footage has also proved popular as a learning aid for foreign language students, with clips available in 14 languages.
By the end of September 2012, there will be around 30,000 items of digital content freely available on the portal as the European providers continue to add carefully selected material.
Explore the EUscreen footage
Open online seminar
Jisc are hosting an open, online seminar on ‘Making Assessment Count (MAC)’ on Friday 3rd Feb – 1-2pm. The presenters are Professor Peter Chatterton (Daedalus e-World Ltd) and Professor Gunter Saunders (University of Westminster).
The mailing for the seminar says” “The objective of Making Assessment Count is primarily to help students engage more closely with the assessment process, either at the stage where they are addressing an assignment or at the stage when they receive feedback on a completed assignment. In addition an underlying theme of MAC is to use technology to help connect student reflections on their assessment with their tutors. To facilitate the reflection aspect of MAC a web based tool called e-Reflect is often used. This tool enables the authoring of self-review questionnaires by tutors for students. On completion of an e-Reflect questionnaire a report is generated for the student containing responses that are linked to the options the student selected on the questionnaire.”
You can find out more ans sign up for the seminar at http://jiscmac.eventbrite.co.uk/
EC-TEL 2012
The EC-TEL 2012: Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills takes place on 18-21 September 2012 at Saarbrücken in Germany.
The focus for the conference includes:
- How can schools prepare young people for the technology-rich workplace of the future?
- How can we use technology to promote informal and independent learning outside traditional educational settings?
- How can we use next generation social and mobile technologies to promote informal and responsive learning?
The deadline for proposals is April 2.
Visitors and Residents
David White (University of Oxford) and Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC) have been attracting quite a stir with their JISC-funded work on Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?, being undertaken as part of the Developing Digital Literacies programme webinar series.
Slides, audio and a recording of the Blackboard Collaborate session where they presented some of the findings of their work can be found at http://bit.ly/jiscdiglitvr.
The keynotes, videos, radio shows and interviews from the ECER 2010 Conference in Helsinki:
Steven says: “The way I make a Slidecast is to fire up Camtasia and then go through my slides, narrating as I present them.”
I have treid making screencasts like this before. It is certainly efficient in terms of time – but I stopped doing it because I found myself thinking about the recording whilst making the presentation. at the end of the day I think live presentations and slidecasts are – as the great AKA Specials said ‘equal but different’. Each requires different forms of presenting. And that is why I do them seperately.
Sounds great!
That is really a nice idea. It does adds great value to presentations.
And I did like the definition of learning and he fact that the most used system for learning is google. It is indeed part of my universe. I google everything these days and just get amazed with wealth of info I get – relevant and irrelevant info too!
Indeed Lurking is not that. I lurk till I get comfortable to take part in it. It takes time to get involved. But active participation is much more Fun!
Thanks for sharing!
Great post, Graham, and very timely for me. What is the online tool you use please, ie the one to sync slides and audio?
Cheers
Terry
Just letting you know that I enjoyed your presentation Graham and have blogged about it. I think you are so right about the role of communities of practice in how we learn. Kerrie
Hi Graham,
Those workflows sound pretty painful – have you thought about exporting from Keynote to Garageband – see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Keynote/4.0/en/c9kn36.html if you don’t have iWork this ounds like it would make the price worth it.
Phil
Phil – thanks for that workflow suggestion. I have previous version of iWork. This might tempt me to upgrade.
Terry – online tool is slidecast option in Slideshare. Not too obvious as to where it is. Select edit button on your slideshow page and then click on slidecast tab. To my mind, the software for timings is the easiest I have used – although t is not microsecond accurate. The only other issue is that slideshare does not host the audio. You have to upload audio somewhere and then provide an http address. However the audio streaming is very fast – none of teh long run buffering you get on some services.
I think ProfCast (http://www.profcast.com/) does what you are looking for.