TV: RSC Northwest's own channel

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We currently have, running on Auto-pilot, this month's storyboard of video clips (Looping approximately every 15:21 min) The clips are...

  1. A Vision of Students Today (04:44 min)
    - a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University
  2. testing...testing (00:37 min)
    "A little bit of silliness" (their words not ours) as Gloucestershire Adult Education try out a camera for some RARPA fun.
    Our thanks to Tracey Morris (e-Learning Advisor ACL JISC RSC South West)
  3. Digital Rhetoric 2007 Class (02:21 min)
    An overview of an Autumn (Fall) 2007 class at UC Irvine about social media and persuasive games. Elizabeth Losh made this YouTube video for her "DIGITAL RHETORIC COURSE" so that students who signed up for it would know that this course in "social media and persuasive games" would involve some media production as well as media theory. You can read Elizabeth's reflections on teaching Digital Rhetoric at https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-December/003015.html.
  4. Evolution in Five minutes (05:45 min) The theory of evolution in action in only five minutes.note: a really good video
  5. South Park Mac vs. PC (01:50 min) A parody of the Mac vs. PC commercials with South Park characters. Created as the final project for a multimedia production class at California State University Northridge (CSUN). There's an error in the credits: South Park studio is at www.sp-studio.de Software used for animation: Flash 8 Pro Software used for voices: Cool Edit 2000

Why not take a look yourself and go to http://www.rsc-northwest.ac.uk/acl/RSC_TV/index.html and watch the RSC-Northwest's TV channel

RSC-NW TV Channel, will aim...

to provide news of...

  • funding,
  • current projects,
  • initiatives and examples of good practice in eLearning
...to offer ideas and support for the Higher Education, Further Education, Personal and Community Development Learning (ACL), 6th Form College, Work Based Learning and Specialist College Managers & Practitioners etc., that are supported by the RSC here in the Northwest.
...and to produce videos of events and/or training and to show them...
...as a loop and/or
...live
...so that those who are unable to attend face-to-face events, will be able to experience martini learning (any time, any place...)

Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Produced and edited by John Dalziel (eLearning Adviser) JISC RSC-Northwest - Lancaster University