Click and Go Video

1. Click and Go Video Jim Strom Director: Advanced Telematics Centre University of Manchester

2. Click and Go Video • Click and Go Project • Streaming Technology • Case Studies • Resource Development

3. 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

4. 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

5. Click and Go Partners • UMIST • University of Manchester • Manchester Metropolitan University • Lancaster University • JISC/DNER Funding Aug 2000-Jul 2002

6. 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

7. Streaming Technology • 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)

8. Creative Tool

9. 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

10. 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

11. Teaching of Medicine-2

12. 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

13. The Buying Game

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. Contact Details www.clickandgovideo.ac.uk jim.strom@man.ac.uk