Getting started with

Digital Media

Steve Hull, JISC Digital Media

Images Video Audio

One of the characteristics of learning

through digital media is the ability to

crowdsource content, ideas and artefacts

and to promote and participate in global

discussions. Steve Wheeler, “what is learning”

1. Examples of digital media

2. Finding

3. Creating

4. Resources

Common Examples of Digital Media

• demonstrations of contextual images

• images with clickable parts (an image map) that link to further information e.g. Google maps

• video recordings of teaching sessions

• media-enhanced feedback

• recordings of special events such as guest lecturers

Why?

• Flexible

• Scalable

• Measurable

• Affordable

Examples

• Course design

• Recording demonstrations

• Capturing a session

• Interviews

• Walking through scenarios

• Discussion

Images and Graphics

Digital photographs, icons, scanned materials, maps, charts & graphs

Moving Images

• Motion graphics

• Video

• Time-based media

Audio

• Voice

• Sounds

• Music

FINDING

1:9:90 rule* consumers

creators

curators

* Made up stat that is probably true!

What’s Out There?

• Plenty

• BUT beware of rights issues

• Creative Commons

CREATING

Daunting

• MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WMA, WAV, B-Wav, RF64

• Keep it simple! (MP3, H.264)

University of Nottingham • Podcasting kits

The Student Experience

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/side-by-side-comparison-of-kodak-zi8-sony-z5-and-flip/

Media-Enhanced Feedback

• Timely

• Peer review

• Self-generated

Media-enhanced feedback

The ASSET project

Uses include: Reflection, Formative and summative assessment

SCREENCAST

Screencasting

• Lecture capture

• Support material

• Media enhanced feedback

• Student submission

http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/wp/podcasting/

http://handbrake.fr/

Measuring Success

– Quantitative tools

– Learning analytics

Horizon Report

http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project

Steeple project University of Oxford

References and resources

JISC, Images, Video & Audio. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/topics/imagevideoaudio.aspx.

Bates, T. (2012) Pedagogical roles for video in online learning.

Bates, T. (2012) pedagogical roles for audio in online learning.

Crook et al (2010) Using video for feedback provision. University of Reading. http://www.reading.ac.uk/videofeedback/

Chiang, I. (2010) Optimising Audio Feedback Assisted Learning for Student and Staff Experience. Aberystwyth

University

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/ltig/afal.aspx

JISC infoNet, Tangible Benefits of e-Learning.

Robinson et al. (2011). STEEPLE: investigate, develop and document sustainable institutional infrastructure to support

university wide educational podcasting. University of Oxford. http://steeple.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Laurillard, D., 2012. Teaching as a design science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology. London:

Routledge.

Middleton, A. (2009) Beyond podcasting: creative approaches to designing educational audio

http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/10871

Waycott et al (2012) Making science real: photo-sharing in biology and chemistry. Research in Learning Technology

2012, 20: 16151 - DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16151

http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/16151

Salmon, G and Edirisingha, P. eds., 2008. Podcasting for Learning in Universities. New York: Open University Press.

Littlejohn, A. ed,. 2003. Reusing Online resources: a sustainable approach to e-learning. London: Kogan Page.

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