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>Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:09:21 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Joel Goldfield <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #7878 SCOLA streaming service

Dick Feldman asks some useful and provocative questions related to goals
and workload in thinking about the new SCOLA materials.  One might want
to pursue this line of inquiry by discussing:
1) What are the profiles of faculty using audio or video on a regular basis?
2) Do most faculty have time, given the available analogue or digital equipment,
   to modify in any way the audio/video material available--to tailor it
   their students' needs?
3) Or do many faculty who use audio/video prefer to simply
   cue up ready-made materials, in whatever medium?
4) Do faculty have technical or other *support* available for the creation and
delivery
   of tailored or teacher-annotated materials?
5) Do faculty have institutional incentives (compensation, credit toward
teaching, service,
   etc.) to engage in such activities?

Any "No" that might answer items 2-5 could break the link to using audio and
video materials.
Many of us I'm sure would be interested in comments on both Dick's and these
more
general questions, both from those who are creating materials or using them
in the classroom or asynchronously and those who are not.

Sincerely,
Joel Goldfield, Chair
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Director, Culpeper Language Resource Center
Fairfield University
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>Subject: SCOLA streaming service

Friends,
We just subscribed to a trial period of SCOLA's "streaming" service.
This allows viewing of all
<http://www.scola.org/eoneCommerce/Portal?Dsp=40&PCR=1:40&ACTN=80000&channel=1&s
cheduledisplay=program&R=6030>four
SCOLA channels on the web and access to a 7-day rolling archive of
half-hour mp4 digitized files from all four channels of broadcasts.
We are working on supporting these resources for teacher use, both
edited sections on the web for homework and in-class presentation.
Actually, in-class is the more difficult, as most teachers here do
not have laptops.  How to present a digital file in class?  LaCie
Silverscreen?  DVD-R?  Other ideas?
For the web for students' homework, we expect teachers will download
the files, review them, select portions with iMovie and upload them
to our server.  We then have a media workbook tool they can use.  Are
others using this service?  How are teachers using the digitized
files?
We have a workshop in May, where teachers will try all this out and
we'll discuss classroom presentation equipment and issues.  I'll post
results of this if people are interested.
--
Dick Feldman, Director
Language Resource Center
Cornell University
http://lrc.cornell.edu
607-255-8685

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