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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>From: Dick Feldman <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7878 SCOLA streaming service
All,
We held the workshop about downloading, editing and uploading SCOLA
files for student viewing. Teachers were very enthusiastic and asked
me to try to extend the service. Since then we have refined the
tools we offer teachers for the upload to our server. Also, we have
dealt with SCOLA quite a bit on glitches in editing files and viewing
live on Macs. The problems are mostly resolved now, though not
entirely seamlessly.
It really doesn't take very long to download, review a broadcast
quickly (the most time-consuming part), decide on a segment of
interest, make a clip of that part and upload it for student viewing.
With an hour's training, I would say that could be done in 15 minutes.
Most of the questions are pedagogical ones: how to incorporate this
into the flow of class work, how to design appropriate tasks for the
material, what levels to use it at, whether to show it in class or
just as homework. Playing the files in class remains a challenge for
many of our teachers, as they mostly do not have laptops even if the
room has a projector. We have 4 or 5 teachers ready to do this.
We are considering dropping our satellite reception of SCOLA, since
in our case we cannot rebroadcast it around campus (no wiring) and it
is available on local cable. SCOLA is more useful to teachers as
digital files they can manipulate and view in their offices than as
videotapes they have to get from us. I do not find the digitized
quality too much worse than the satellite broadcast; the downloaded
files are adequate for intensive viewing.
Do others have experiences/reactions to this?
Dick Feldman
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>>From: Dick Feldman <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: SCOLA streaming service
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>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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