EduTubePlus News
KlasCement Extends Online Materials to Include Video Resources
Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 - 20:04
EduTubePlus partner KlasCement in Belgium launched its call for video resources created by teachers in March through a request in its newsletter.
Site visitors have been asked to share pictures, video and audio clips, educational clips, samples of SchoolTV, interviews, video reports on activities, instruction films and any other multimedia resources that might be of use to other teachers. KlasCement also plan to make available pictures from the KlasCement library and to share resources about how to make video material for classroom use. In order to encourage teachers to submit video clips,...
Publications around the use of video in learning
Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 - 19:04
Kevin Burden and his colleagues at the University of Hull have recently made a number of conference presentations at various national and international venues.
These include the Ascilite conference (Melbourne in 2008) and the EdMedia Conference (Vienna in 2008). You can read the associated papers for each of these conferences at Kevin’s academic profile web-site:
Beyond Content: Developing Transferable Learning Designs for Video Archives (EdMedia, 2008) http://hull.academia.edu/KevinBurden/Papers/77103/Beyond-Content-Developing-Transferable-Learning-Designs-with-Digital-Video-Archives...
BETT Show, 2009
Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 - 17:35
Staff from the University of Hull attended the annual BETT show in London, one of the largest technology shows of its type in Europe.
Video featured heavily in many of the exhibitions and there was considerable initial interest in the concept behind EduTubePlus. In January 2010 staff from the EduTubePlus project will take a stand at BETT to share developments and look for potential recruits. You can read more about the show at: http://theok.typepad.com/digital_signposts/2009/01/just-what-is-it-about-bett.html
NewsFilm Online Launch: 3rd October 2008
Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 - 09:19
A team from the University of Hull (Kevin Burden; Theo Kuechel and Simon Atkinson) attended the official launch of the JISC funded Newsfilm Online archive containing over 3000 hours collection of News item (60,000) clips dating back to 1900 (www.nfo.ac.uk).
As you would expect, the clips cover the great and significant moments in 20th, and (some 21st century history), but perhaps even more importantly illustrates, visually, a snapshot of the 'everyday'; the impermanent transience of life and society at that given time. The team from the University of Hull were responsible...
EduTubePlus Partners Active in BETT09
Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 - 16:18
The world’s largest educational technology event BETT09 took place on 14-17 January 2009 in London and attracted almost 29,000 visitors.
Two EduTubePlus partners, lesite.tv and University of Hull were amongst the 600 exhibitors, lesite.tv were featured on the French stand and University of Hull on the MirandaNet Stand.
Launch of MEDEA Awards 2009
Wednesday, 22 April, 2009 - 16:02
EduTubePlus partner ATiT announced the launch of the MEDEA Awards on 31 March.
These annual awards aim to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media in education and to promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources at all levels of education. Closing date for entries is 30 September. For more information visit http://www.medea-awards.com/
Design of the EduTubePlus platform and E-Services Architecture Now Available
Tuesday, 31 March, 2009 - 16:17
EduTubePlus technical partners participating in Work Package 4 have been working intensively on the initial design and specification of the EduTubePlus platform and e-services architecture and have published the first public report of this work in the deliverable “Design of the EduTubePlus Platform and e-Services”.
This report includes an outline of the methodology followed, a description of the existing technical solutions provided by project partners, the process of acquiring and analysing user requirements, the decisions taken, the representation of the overall functional...
The EduTubePlus multilingual curriculum-related ontology: Decisions
Saturday, 28 March, 2009 - 15:42
The development of a suitable multilingual ontology of curriculum-related terms was considered an important aspect of the EduTubePlus system, as it would enable teachers and pupils navigate and find multicultural video resources using terms related to their national curricula in their native language.
After an extended survey of the existing controlled vocabularies and school-based thesauri conducted by CEDETEL and RACTI, EduTubePlus project partners decided to use the EUN LRE Thesaurus as a basis for the EduTubePlus ontology. This controlled vocabulary of school-based terms, currently...
Finnish Teachers Reactions to EduTubePlus Service
Friday, 27 March, 2009 - 10:30
Juha Paasimäki from Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius organised a workshop on 27th March for the Finnish teachers who will take part to the implementation of the EduTubePlus service in Finland.
Here are some of the remarks these teachers made during the workshop:
The teachers felt that EduTubePlus is a good idea. Video material is hard to find as it is distributed in different places on the web.
EduTubePlus will give added value for learning as it will lead to more authentic ways of making illustrations
The type of web-based video service that the EduTubePlus represents is...
Video content providers meeting
Wednesday, 18 March, 2009 - 12:02
Video content providers of the EduTubePlus project met in Madrid, Spain (UNED premises) on March 11th 2009 to begin discussions and plan the work for WP5.
During the meeting, the content providers presented their selected video-clips; all selections were discussed in detail, while University of Hull (UofHULL) provided an overall analysis of results as well as comments for each video-clip selected. Almost all content providers have supplied full inventories of their existing resources. In addition, most content providers have already supplied details of existing inventories for their video...