Enhancing the Teaching and Learning Experience with TV & Radio

ProgrammesMarkeda Cole, BUFVC

Anna Goatman. The University of Manchester

Tom Butler, Croydon College

JISC Digifest 11th March 2014 ICC Birmingham

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• A brief background to BoB National

• Engaging students with AV (Dr Anna Goatman)

• Saving time, space & money with BoB (Tom Butler)

• Q & A

BoB National 3.0 features

• View and record over 1 million TV and radio programmes

• Access ten foreign language channels• Create clips and clip compilations• Create playlists and share • Record missed programmes (30 day buffer; 7

days in advance)• Search rolling transcripts / view thumbnails

BoB National 3.0 features

• Embed content on VLEs• Share content via Twitter• Comment on programmes• View on all handheld devises (iOS compatibility)• Reference programmes in your work using the

BUFVC AV Citation Guidelines• Easy to use, intuitive website

Anna GoatmanSenior Lecturer in MarketingManchester Business School

The University of Manchester

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting” (Plutarch)

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“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either” (McLuhan)

Croydon College Library

Tom ButlerHead of Libraries and Learning Resources

Before and After• Check Radio Times and existing

holdings – 60 mins/week• Set up Digital recorders for each

programme – Up to 30 mins/day• Dub down programmes from

records to DVDs and burn (1:1), checking occasionally to monitor process

• Catalogue DVDs – 5 mins per disk• Process DVDs – 5 mins per disk• Shelve and keep tidy

• Log into BoB• Select Programme

Before and After• 1.5 FTE Learning Resources

Assistants – About 60% of duty time

• 1 FTE Senior Library Assistant – About 30% of duty time

• 1 FTE Cataloguer – About 30% of duty time

• Outsourced to the customers

We didn’t expect that…

Any Questions?

Markeda Cole, BoB National & Off Air Recordings Administratormarkeda@bufvc.ac.uk

020 7393 1514

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