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Introduction to Spoken Word Iain Wallace
Spoken Word Services www.spokenword.ac.uk
Blackpool, January 2007
Outline for day - 10.15: Introductions - Spoken Word
Services - 11.30: Break- 11.45: Group work - discussion- 12.30: Lunch- 13.30: Library 2.0 presentation- 14.30: Break- 14.45: Learning Spaces presentation- 15.15 Group work - discussion & questions- 16.00 Finish
Who are we?JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the ClassroomDuration and Nature of the Project (TEL)
GCU teamProject Partners- BBC Information & Archives- Academic Technologies, Northwestern
University- MATRIX, Michigan State University
Pedagogy, Content and Annotation Tools
A National Agenda?Education Agenda- Personalisation, Inclusion, Flexibility,
Productivity
JISC Agenda – DLIC Programme – Spoken Word‘Transformation of Teaching and Learning’Bringing emerging technologies and available
digital content into core teaching and learning
BBC Agenda- Charter and licence payers- Opening access to content
What content do we have?Depth and breadth of the BBC ArchivesImportance of BBC – ‘Britain’s intelligent
conversation’Authentic, rich resources for learning and
teaching; currently not easily accessible
Copyright – Deposit Agreement and User License
Early focus on digital audio, now video too
CollaborationsTeachingTechnicalOrganisational
LocalNationalInternational
CollaborationsTowards an international Community of Practice ….
- English Language at Bologna- Political Economy at Glasgow Caledonian- Social work and Social Policy at Glasgow Caledonian- Anthropology (History of India) at Columbia- History (impact of technology since 1945) at
Northwestern- Law and Ethics at Edinburgh- Hospitality Management at Strathclyde- Biology (Ethics and Genetics) at Glasgow Caledonian- Women in British Politics at Kansas State
What are we trying to do?Spoken Word aims and objectives
Learning and teaching!(not primarily about technology, or
research)
JISC said ….‘Transformation of Teaching and Learning’
Transform what and why?
PedagogySome Traditional Values…Aspirations and
Ambitions
‘To induce students to think for themselves, work on their own …. and contribute to the work of groups’
But Elite Values and Mass Higher Education
Potential Opportunities and Advantages of C&IT
PedagogySome Contemporary Realities…
Social and Technological Imperatives Citizenship, Work and Leisure in an Ever-Changing World
Embracing the Socio-Technological World of the Modern Learner
Enhancing access to content
Spoken Word modelEnabling Pedagogical Pluralism...
Banks of content: the ‘essence’ (primary audio repositories)
Catalogues and finding aids (secondary and tertiary repositories)
User Applications (the ‘presentation layer’)
Metadata Fedora metadata repository
Standards and Mappings ….- BBC Infax to Dublin Core (EBU)- DC to UK-LOM Core- DC to MARC21- METS
- User generated metadata – e.g. annotation; tagging, folksonomies
Scholarly CommunicationDigital Libraries …Repositories have always been important;
standards have always been important
Tools for Scholarly Communication are changing ….
Open Archives – Open Source – Open Standards – Interoperability Standards (Technical and Metadata)
Library 2.0? Social learning
Social SoftwareSocio-technological world of the modern
learner
- Spoken Word sites in MySpace, Facebook and Bebo
- Ajax functionality - RSS and Podcast feeds for all repository
searches- Links through to Wikipedia, Google
Scholar- Tagging in Delicious
Accessing our resources 4 easy steps
- Go to www.spokenword.ac.uk
- Click on ‘Find Audio & Video’
- Sign up for a free educational user account
- Start searching
Padova live demo!
Media Annotation ToolsProject Pad – the vision- Let people work easily together with digital
media online- Provide powerful tools for critiquing and
sharing annotations of digital media objects online in real time
- Provide federated search and ability to shareannotated materials via repositories
Media Annotation ToolsProject Pad – the reality- Browser based annotation and
collaboration tool for images, audio and video
- Potential integration with repository and VLE environments
- Open Source- SAKAI tool or stand alone version- Developed in partnership with Academic
Technologies at Northwestern University
Project Pad screenshot- Designed for collaborative group work- Annotation of audio and video timelines- Flash client side; Java server side-Notes easily exported (as XML)
Some real world examplesWhat are the benefits of using Project Pad for
annotation?- Maureen Lister at Bologna : English language
teaching with BBC resources- Ken Alder at Northwestern: history teaching
with BBC resources- Jerry Goldman at Northwestern: teaching and
research using US Supreme Court audio testimony
Suggestions for further applications?- Annotating lectures?
Future developments?- Integration of Padova (finding aid) and
Project Pad (annotation tool)
- Re-using user generated metadata in Scholarly Communication ….
Range of SW servicesAdded value services ….- Audio recording and advice - Non-BBC media (e.g. GCPH; GCU Archives)- Provision of blog services- Advice on use of Open Source and standards- Interest in developing more fora for open
interactions with our colleagues e.g. rights awareness groups; TEL groups; reporting back from conferences to interested local groups
- Dissemination – local, national, international – raising profile of learning and teaching at GCU
Your input?We are very keen for our content and tools
to be used in many different contexts, and to have more users in FE
- Please publicise use of our resources- Let us know if you would like to
collaborate
Further Information
Much more information online atwww.spokenword.ac.uk