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:
Well inspired by Dirk’s twitter, I thought I might actually come to this event.
I clicked on the url, found the website but had no idea how to navigate it and no idea how I could make a contribution. I clicked randomly on words I didn’t understand but it kept asking me to log in. I tried that because I thought I had to create an account to say anything. When I tried to do that I just kept getting a message saying I didn’t have an account so could not contribute anyway.
One of the things I wanted to comment on was that it is described as an event designed by researchers for researchers yet the focus is on practice. I can’t get my head around this. Is it going to be another event where researchers talk to researchers about what teachers and trainers should be doing? Or is it for practitioners as well? Anyway, I thought I might do something on that – like what the issues are.
The reason I have never been interested in attending e-learning events is because they all seemed out of reach of ‘the rest of us’. Since working for Pontydysgu, I decided I ought to take the plunge.
So, the first thing I tried to join was some on-line conference thing a few weeks ago but the technology broke in the first few minutes so depressed and with confidence shaken, I gave up.
Thoughtfest was only the second thing I tried to get involved in and I’m now even more depressed. Maybe I am just dull – tho’ I don’t suppose any more so than other ordinary teachers and trainers I know who might be interested in discussing e-learning – but so far this event is totally inaccessible to me.
It might be OK for the ‘community of practice’ that is already involved but as sure as hell it is not welcoming for those who are just dipping their toe in the water. Both the web site and the ideas are impenetrable to a newcomer.
Have a nice conference!