Click and Go Video

Jim StromDirector: Advanced Telematics

CentreUniversity of Manchester

Click and Go Video

• Click and Go Project• Streaming Technology• Case Studies• Resource Development

Need

• Use freely available streaming technologies• Make the set up process quick and non-

intrusive• Automate the capturing, archiving and

playback• Use streaming video to provide an engaging

and compelling learning environment

Click and Go: Aims

• Establish a methodology covering all the information needed to integrate video lectures with other resources and to present them over the Web

• Produce a set of tools to ease the creation of video-streamed multimedia presentations

• Generate ‘How to do it’ guides, easy-to-follow tutorials and guides to learning and best practice

Click and Go Partners

• UMIST• University of Manchester• Manchester Metropolitan University• Lancaster University• JISC/DNER Funding Aug 2000-Jul 2002

• 36 projects running August 2000 - July 2003 • £10.5 M• divided into 6 clusters:

– moving image and sound, images, museum content, enhancing JISC services, improving access to L&T resources and virtual environments

• which are:– Creating tailored learning and teaching

materials– Providing access to digital collections– Enhancing JISC Services

DNER Learning & Teaching Programme

• Free players

• Free encoder software ($QuickTime Pro)

• Free server software ($Real Server Plus/Pro)

• Multiple streaming formats and codecs

• Simultaneous streams (Real: licence limitation)

• Data rates ranging from Kbps to Mbps

• Support for SMIL (RealVideo + QuickTime)

Streaming Technology

Creative Tool

Case Studies

• Real-time and on-demand streaming of lectures integrated with slides and ancillary video

• Bookmarking key events in the video stream and providing hyperlinks to supporting learning material

• Providing video-based demonstrations to support student-driven assignments

• Linking desktop videoconferencing and application sharing to support collaborative learning

• Using micro video clips to illustrate specific practical activities

Teaching of Medicine-1

• Manchester Royal Infirmary, University of Manchester

• Irritable bowel syndrome• Lectures available for students on-demand• Building a video knowledge base for consultants

Teaching of Medicine-2

Fashion Marketing

• UMIST Department of Textiles• Fashion show

- video diaries• Buying game

- video scene setting + tips from some real buyers- students play at being the buyers (+VC/Excel)- videoed student presentations

The Buying Game

Case Study: Cookery

• Tourism and Hospitality Department• Manchester Metropolitan University• Supporting kitchen practical work

- reducing amount of repetition by teaching staff

• Short high quality instructional clips- available before, during and after the event

Implementation Issues

• Lack of video equipment available to departments• Gaining co-operation of technical support staff• Balancing live capture with prepared video

material• How best to capture practical videos

- storyboard it or show a skilled operator working from raw materials- losing the colour texture of food

Resource Development

• Web Site• Tools – SMIL wizard, etc• ‘How to do it’ guides• Technology demonstrators• Guides to learning and best practice• Case studies • Workshops

Contact Details

www.clickandgovideo.ac.uk

jim.strom@man.ac.uk