sharing out to the world with itunes u
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This presentation was given to University of Leicester academics on 19 June 2013, as a way for the university as a whole to discuss how we might be using iTunes U for learning with our current students.TRANSCRIPT
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Sharing out to the world with iTunes U
Terese BirdLearning Technologist & SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning Innovation19 June, 2013
What will we talk about?• Who’s looking at iTunes U and
why
• Examples of Leics material & how to make them– Sound (Martin Parker)– Video (Jeremy, Dylan)– Text (Clinical)– Full iTunes U Course
(Manufacturing Pasts)
• Bad examples, how to avoid
• Discussion: how might you use iTunes U?
Photo courtesy of womensnet_gallery, Flickr
Facts about iTunes U
• Way back in 2005…
• Recorded lectures and a VLE, sort of
• Over 1300 universities, plus museums, schools
• Available in all countries (except maybe Sudan)
• Windows & Macs
• iPad
iTunes U v YouTube, Apple v Android
Why we launched it, at Leicester• Open Educational Resources movement & project
• Signed with Apple– Told us to ‘just show your particular good stuff’– Offered us free server space & made it easy to
launch
• ‘Could OER be used to attract students?’
• ‘Is it marketing or is it teaching?’ Both!
• Public, except for some iTunes U Courses
• Launched on 16 March 2013
• Richard III was number 2 on April Fools Day
Criteria for iTunes U team choices
• Each item self-contained good learning content
• ‘Live teaching’ is good, just look after the quality
• Why audio?
• Why video?
• Inaugural lectures, public lectures
Who’s looking at it and why
• Age groups from stats
• Countries from stats
• What China does– (Windows laptops plus iPhones)– Their own app which they translate
Examples of student voices
• ‘Where are the sample lectures?’
• ‘I would have happily listened to all the lectures but what I got was ‘Management for Dummies’’
• ‘Lectures on YouTube? I wouldn’t even have checked there, that’s for kittens on a treadmill’
• ‘I searched for pharmaceutical lectures and listened to them on waterproof iPod while swimming’
• ‘I like to learn certain topics. I don’t like audio-only.’
Examples from Leicester - Sound
• Martin Parker research talk
• Ruth Page Twitter lecture
• How did I make these? And how can you do it?– Good digital recorder– Audacity – show a picture of good sound– I add top and tail
SoundCloud
• Like ‘YouTube for Audio’
Examples from Leicester - Video
• Jeremy Levesley
• Dylan Williams – campus, but moving to distance
• How: Adobe Presenter
• How: Narrated Powerpoint, change to .mov or mp4
• ScreenR
• Use University of Leicester Powerpoint templates
Examples fro Leicester - Text
• Clinical
• Institute of Learning Innovation
• Epub – Calibre (free, all platforms)
• .ibooks – iBooks Author (free, Mac only)
Examples from Leicester – iTunes U Course
• Manufacturing Pasts
Copyright
• Aiming for Creative Commons – Attribution – NonCommercial
• Flickr or Google images – Creative Commons!
Discussion
• How might you wish to use this channel in current teaching– Distance– Campus
• We have students here! What do you think?
• How might you use this channel to share out research? (Martin Parker, Criminology research presentations)
Want to try putting some material onto iTunes U?
Contact Terese Bird [email protected]
• Thank you!!!
