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:
Yeah!
Liked it a lot. Authentic reflection. Really liked the wrap up – great Hymn to change: Changing the culture in schools and in companies.
Can’t agree more.
Today I was thinking it is really hard for instance to squeeze a triangle inside a square. Have you eveer thought about that? It can be quite uncomfortable and cause stress, anxiety, lack of interest, because it doesn’t fit, but if someone tells you to try or else… You will do it!… And that is exactly what our education systems have been trying to do: to add something to the existing reality instead of re-thinking it completely. Educators might wnat to cahnge it but if they don’t get official support, most will struggle with it, some feel very frustrated, others will just try to ignore it, etc…
Only if we are able to replace the old frame work (the square) will there be a be space for the change (the triangle).
I can’t see a major change happening until the curricula are dramatically re-designed (maybe even cease to exist!), classrooms stop being organized in rows (maybe we even stop having classrooms as such) and until teachers are demanded not to assess according to unpersonalized criteria (maybe we have to ban the “teacher role” and convert them in storytellers and mentors!.
One thing is for sure: it has t be a dramatic change to achieve learning (r)evolution. We need to choose if we need the square or the triangle, or maybe even something else. We cannot expect teachers to follow national curricula, prepare kids to succeed national exams and do all of that using a 21st skill approach when certification, handbooks and curricula across the world have been developed to accommodate the chalk and talk methodology.
This takes us to another issue then: professional development: it is recognized everyone learns more outside the school, that networking and interacting as part of a CoP is a more efficient way of learning and further development. SO true. I know it. I have experienced it for years now. But we are still too few perceiving that and doing that that way!! And that is because most people have never experienced it, nor have they give it a chance because they don’t know better. Most time when they need to prove to their bosses they know something they enroll to this course which will grant them that certified paper. They go to boring classes, read those long papers, memorize stuff for their exams, and after that they try to keep away from those school walls till they need to prove something else. Then they will have to play the get-another-certificate-to-keep the-boss-happy- game again!
Thanks for that. You got me thinking here!
Hi Graham and all participants:
first of all congrats for the pod…;-)
Unfortunaly I had to leave on the fly…
Is there a follow up on the plattform you mentioned??
Kind regards
Uwe
PD: Great music, what is it??
Ah – the music – I should have credited it – it is Anas song – from a creative commons remix competition on the jamendo.com web site -= great site for free music.
Sorry being a bit late with the follow up material – hectic here at moment – but will be up soon – and don’t forget the Evolve on-line event on Friday -see my blog for details – will pick up some of the themes we talked about
Susan and I will be there – and we will be accompanying my daughter, Joan and her husband Jim.
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