Introduction to Spoken Word
Iain Wallace
Spoken Word Services
www.spokenword.ac.uk
Blackpool, January 2007
Outline for day
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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 Classroom
Duration and Nature of the Project (TEL)
GCU team
Project 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 Archives
Importance 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
Collaborations
Teaching
Technical
Organisational
Local
National
International
Collaborations
Towards 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?
Pedagogy
Some 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
Pedagogy
Some 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 model
Enabling 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
Communication
Digital 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 Software
Socio-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 Tools
Project 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 share
annotated materials via repositories
Media Annotation Tools
Project 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
examples
What 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 services
Added 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 at
www.spokenword.ac.uk