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show or hide details for this item Multi-media and WLP Blog Entry 1 reply 11-July-2006 Graham Attwell
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At the London workshop we had a very short discussion on how we might use multimedia in the project. This entry develops on those initial ideas.
I would suggest there are three ways we can usefully use multi-media as part of the WLPO project.
  1. As narrative content. What do I mean by that? Multi-media can be used to make our web pages more vivid - to explain the ideas of the project. Often a short video or slide presentation may be far more compelling and immediate than pages of text. That is not to say it replaces more tradtional web content. Instead it should form a natural part of the web pages. I have some doubts as to how long video clips should be. We have tended to say they should be (very) short. But, used as a part of a narrative discoures for research and information about workplace learning parterships, I think we might use longer clips - if the material is relevant. For instance, much of interview materials I recorded last week could be used in this way.
  2. For promotional or dissemination puproses. This should be quite short - say 5-7 minutes and should seek to convey the central 'story' about the workplace learning partership project. It may be a mix of interview material and 'stock' film. It should - needless to say - be vivid and compelling. Whilst video is timeconsuming to produce, it may be worth looking at slidecasting as an alternative - combining slides with an audio commentary. This is fairly quick to produce and can also make for compelling content.
  3. As 'how-tos'. Thsi is probably the most important. We should produce a series of short 'how-tos' taking people through the use of social software for learning. As a first idea I would suggest 2 'how-tos':
  • Using RSS in teaching and learning
  • Using Delicio.us in teaching and learning
These should be designed  as practical resources. Technically they will be a mixture of screencasting and video.

OK - that's all for now - I would welocme any feedback.

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A good analysis and a great plan! Discussion Topic 0 replies 11-July-2006 Mike Malloch
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Thanks for posting this Graham... I might have a few elaborations of detail to make, but otherwise this looks like a great plan to me.

Graham and I had a very rewarding (for me :o) chat on the phone early this morning which touched on these issues (see Graham's post in his personal weblog for some more general issues which emerge from the WLP project collaboration as a process).

I completely agree with this analysis of where the best application of effort can be made. I think there is some room for elaborating on the plan for the how-to screencast/video materials (for instance, perhaps a series of short video how-tos on RSS instead of one longer one, taking the user from raw beginner to more advanced practices for using RSS in learning; ditto same for del.icio.us).

Let's plan to have more telephone or SKYPE meetings about the details, and hope to have Jamie up here in Bangor for more intensive planning sometime soon.

I would emphasise what Graham says:

...These should be designed  as practical resources

Cheers! --- Mike