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:
If I may, I would really like to comment on the situation in Greece,inspired by the article by (my teacher) Maria Perifanou.
Although the situation across our country may seem surreal, the fact that the youth of this hypnotized country fight back is fairly encouraging. The citizens of Greece have been thus far(from the very first day the governmental party was elected)witnesses of consecutive scandals,all of which incriminate members of the government. All of us students have endured the constant attempt toward the deterioration of our studies,of the value of our degrees and of our lives,consequently. We are watching peacefully as the unemployment increases and the governmental funds destined to be spent on education are becoming meager and meager. In addition to all of this, a 15-year-old is getting shot in cold blood by an incompetent police officer.
Subsequently, the reaction of the entire society is at least reasonable. What we are experiencing right now is the opposition to Police, the most conservative institution of our society. It is, moreover, an opposition to the incapability of the goverment to do the only thing they are supposed to, and that is to govern.
However,it is also the opportunity for some to destroy everything they can, proceeding to actions with absolutely no political meaning. Two of the saddest things that occurred during the riots was the fire that set ablaze the library of the Law School of Athens and the theater Aegeon(if i’m not mistaken). The destruction of places of cultural and artistic interest is probably the only thing that won’t justify Alex’s murder and simultaneously the only thing that will help disorientate the tv spectators (especially from abroad) from the real meaning of this revolution.
Anyway, goodbye to Alex, condolences to his family, but even more, to all of those who stand indifferent and wait for the tv program to return to normal…
Buonasera Maria e Romane
My comments to these destruction are many.Everything in our country have been demolished.Probably the cause of all these is the incapacity of our government to act.Meaning that they have done nothing for this country.People except many things and didn’t got nothing.Our economy go through difficult situation.Billion of euro had been spent from our politician to make their bellies bigger and their pockets heavier.At the same time families survive with low salaries and huge accounts.Ministers like Vouglarakis,Magginas etc,have gigantic bank accounts and live as kings .Of course in order to do that they steal the fonts from Europe that given for education ,agriculture ,economy,isurance.In the last 5 years Greece lived very difficult.It make sense these reaction from the people .Our people indignant.The depts are very heavy and our country can stand no more.We need change and need it right how
YK: Maria tuo amico sono pazzo .Ma che fa il uomo, non ne paura dei terroristi,non so.Ahh
per ieri ma che cosa era la secreteria telefona a me la sera per annullamento la classe.La notte avuto di telefono alla secreteria per completano.Finalle le lessione sara.
Hi Romanis and Kostis…thanks very much for your comments. It is a difficult situation for you. One thing that has encouraged me is to see so many young people prepared to go to the streets and protest and not just accept their situation.
Sadly in much of the English speaking press the protests are presented just as the actions of a small minority of anarchists. there have been very limited attempts to explain why the protests are happening. the more the voices of students are heard, the more such understanding may grow.
I also think it is important on an education based web site like this one, that we understand not just technology but how the social and political issues that young people are engaged in. For me learning is not just absorbing knowledge or adapting to our environment, but the ability to co-shape and change our environments, be that in school, in the workplace or in wider social spheres.
Thanks a lot, Graham! I appreciate your comments and your overall contribution and interest. I’m not sure if many people understand, but it’s crucial that we explain the world and clarify the situation. I can’t say we did not expect that the media around the globe would try to present the riots as the destruction-aimed action of a group of anarchists-terrorists. When a disruption similar to ours breaks out, governments, through their mouthpieces(radio,tv,newspapers) garble the situation intentionally to convince people that the culprit is some marginal minority.
Anyway, this is not the case here. What kind of a minority can that be, when riots and demonstrations are organized across Greece, even in small towns, just like the one I’m coming from?
I also agree to the last part of your comment and especially on our obligation to take part in the evolution of our societies and environments.
Thank you, finally, for providing us with the opportunity to express our feelings and thoughts and especially to communicate them to a well-educated audience, who can transmit the information to even more individuals, as well as families and classrooms all around Europe..