Day 2

9:15-10:15AM- James Skidmore, UW: “Prof Moments: a video alternative to lecture-casts”

Before Prof-Moments

• taking notes from an oral Skidmore lecture- Nietzsche contra Wagner
• difficult to just take notes orally; podcasting audio may not be sufficient
• Learning Styles important
• created "Prof Moments"
• with the consultation from the LT3 centre

Example of Prof Moments

• example lecture with "Prof Moments" (video & handout); text in [uwace.uwaterloo.ca UW ACE], some readings available:
• edited videos himself using Camtasia Studio, tablet computer, speak to slides, record with minimal editing, exported to "swf" (flash video)
• notes are taken on "handout pdf" of powerpoint
• Skidmore: feels the repetition of listening, watching and notetaking increases learning; in "contact" with the information
• difficult to multi-task (rollerblade and note-take)
• assignments- virtual field trip; off into web sites - achieve tasks - they are getting a good introduction
• provides structure for students
• 9 units, 40 "prof moments"

Results

• course evaluations indicate the students like humour, informality,
• vice into virtue

Questions

• How much time does this take?
  • has 6 TAs to assist
  • each semester takes a bit of time to get it ready
  • took a lot of time to get permissions
• Have you considered teaching this blended, hybrid mix of face to face and then showing the prof moments
  • yes, perhaps. Has not taught the course face to face for a while. Is keen on letting students taking control of their learning
• What was different between face to face that DE didn't get?
  • showed similar but different examples
  • posed questions, in class group work (some students resist group work)
  • attendance drops off in all large lecture classes near the end of the term
  • not much value-added to meet face to face?
  • perhaps expand or elaborate; still searching
• Did face to face to students do better than DE?
  • No, they did the same
  • difficult to control
• Where do you see your self on the "techno-saaviness" scale?
  • Not a real adventurer, but perhaps better than the "average". Tend to stick with what's there; easily available; using UW ACE; able to assist peers
• Had you seen "prof moment" content that inspired you?
  • Les from UW gave an example of Breeze, introduced James to the idea
  • download Word, markup with Word with a tablet, resubmit back as a PDF
• Little effort vs. Time consuming?

For more information mail: skidmore(AT)uwaterloo(DOT)ca

10:15-11 Andre Quenneville from ORION - IPTV

Director of Public Affairs, Ontario Research Innovation Optical Network

What is Orion?

• Owned & operated by not-for-profit entity comprised of college & uni presidents
• Next generation research & education network
• equipment in 21 cities, hosted at college & uni campuses
• private network apart of a global grid of R&E networks (CAN- CANARIE) and internationally
• supports high bandwitch, low latency applications, i.e. HD quality video conference, multicasting, etc.
• Lakehead has deployed Google Apps for Enterprise Education

Context for ORION

• unconstrained bandwith
• supporting virtual classrooms
• sharing large datasets (terabyes
• collaborate real-time
• 75 members and growing, traffic up 600%
• new initiatives;
  • e.g. medical imagine,
  • virtual classrooms,
  • distributed computing
  • student television (affiliated with Internet2, Case Western, Cleveland, Ohio)
    • streamed live over a channel, multi-cast enabled
    • content, news, documentaries, performance works, lectures, podcasts, news, sports events, entertainment programming etc.
    • http://www.orion.on.ca/orionstudenttv.html

discussion paper URL available at:TBA

Vision for an IPTV platform

• something like this exists already- OSTN (US)
• ORION took the lead in developing a Discussion Paper and online survey (serve as a catalyst)
• Sheridan agreed to partner with ORION to stage a workshop and provide support
• Institutions were asking, "why can't we have our own media streaming, animation, film programs, etc"?
• A lot of content being produced but not shared
• Ontario has some of the world leading film and animation schools, leverage to showcase and provide a platform to make available internally and externally to industry, parents and the community
• Provide students, educators, researchers, teaching institutions and partners with a broadly accessible tool for posting, distributing and sharing
• enhance the platform with interactive and web 2.0 capabilities
• platform for collaboration

Benefits

• network of channels
• global showcase for Ontario's and Canada's excellence in producing digital media, film, TV

-R&D platform delivering test-bed capabilities for reseach in advanced media technologies and application, i.e. content for mobile devices, next-generation interactive media

• living lab environment

Current Situation

• looked at what schools are doing today
• what happens to content
• reviewed 20 initiatives, variety of approaches and objectives,

Content and programming

• campus-wide student activities
• tools to create content relevant to student experiences
• programming information that students need about campus event and activities
• lecture content on web, studies and exam prep, engage deeply in coursework
• broadcast, film, animation and media programs need to keep apce with rapid avanes in the industry like http://youtube.com
• research into content creation
• content for wireless devices
• support for internal and external marketing and recruitment and outreach activities
  • e.g. Fanshawe college allowing students to post information about the college

Technology, Platform & infrastructure

• Hosted websites
• Proprietary broacast platforms, G-Channel, V-Brick, etc.
• Broadcast through local cable
• Publicly available apps, like iTunes, Ustream, etc
• INUK Netorks
• Open Student Television Netork (OSTN)

Operations, management & funding

• critical mass?
• resource challenges?
• production facilities
• appropriate rights management framework?

Survey Findings

Highlights

• seems to be sufficient support
• 39 institutions participated
• 67% have or plan to distrubete student , faculty and/or inst. generated content
• 72% feel it would be valuable

Workshop at Sheridan

• Hosted at Sheridan - June 18, 19
• Over 100 people participated, representing colleges, unis, industry, gov, and otehr stakeholders
• showcase and exhibitors June 18
• looked at practical applications
  • content and programming
  • platform and technology issues
  • operational issues and sources of funding
• Sheridan, Ryerson, Waterloo presented

Technology/INfrastructure

• standards.protocol
• staffing
• management philosophy & protocols

Outcome

• 20 people signed up
• struck a 6ppl steering committee
• focus on developing options going forward, including recommendations
• would like to see pilot/proof of concept within 12-18mos
• up to 10institutions
• deploy a shared platform
• able to program, upload, stream and archive content
• introduce interactive social networking of web 2.0 capabilities

Next Steps

• consult on optmal design, format and platform

Initial Steering Group (student) Brock, (prof) Ryerson, Sheridan,(AD) (Chair)Fanshawe, Royal Ontario Museum, ORION

Learn More

• Discussion Paper
• Workshop findings
• Future updates

http://www.orion.on.ca

http://www.orion.on.ca/iptvworkshop

ORION SUMMIT

• http://www.orioncanariesummit.ca/index.html

Plenaries

• Former U of T president and celebrated physicist Robert J. Birgeneau opens the Summit!

Read more about the current chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley...

• Bestselling author Dr. John Kao gives Summit delegates a crash course on innovation!

John Kao Former President & now chancellor at xx? November 3-4, 2008 Toronto Convention Centre

Questions

• Can you solve the last mile
  • Not really within ORION
  • Andrew- often it is the institutional policies, i.e. packet shaping

11:30-12:30 Best Alternatives for Lecture Capture & Delivery: Panel Presentation

Linda Murphy-Boyer

• see Linda's wiki notes
• introduced to podcasting by James Skidmore
• UofT ran a podcast pilot
• Brought in a lot of guest speakers: 60 profs were interested
• prepared report on status of lecture capture systems
• have 53,000 students in Blackboard posting video (but not streamed)
• looking at formats

Taxonomy of Delivery Modes

Event Podcasting

• Push out video/ moment/ event/lecture
• "talking head" video
• something outside the classroom, e.g. "learning objectives" - 3min video
• fun & engaging; can illustrate difficult concepts, record demonstrations

Lecture Capture

• simultaneously record video, audio and powerpoint
• can be synchronously and asynchronously
• business model and physical appliance model affects system choice
  • appliance can be permanently fixed in a classroom or moved room to room
  • web-based services, can be hosted on-or off site
  • best systems are one-touch systems; business-as-usual- "do you want to record this lecture"; push the "easy button"; link is sent to prof, prof posts to Blackboard, etc.
• gave a handout of survey of lecture capture systems; asked not to redistribute

Nick Marquis of McMaster

Learning Technologies Consultant Fo Social Sciences, office of the Dean and Associate Dean

• North American universities increased enrollments without funding
• teaching more students
• 19,000undergraduate, 3,000grad students
• 125-600 students at any given time
• approach taken
  • learning impact, cost effectiveness, instructor impact
• pilot test phase of course/lecture capture,goal enhance student undergrad learning
• had to consider many "enterprise-ready" systems over 18 month research schedule
• looked at many of the same systems Linda mentioned
• had evidence that lecture capture had positive learning outcomes
• needed $ to sustain post-funding
• $50 per class
• help of campus partners, VP provost, University Library- automated lecture capture- using existing equipment
• early stages of adoption with enterprise solutions
• retrofitting 3 classrooms with appliances this September
  • appliances are capable of capturing audio input, VGA, Doc cam, video cam
• will only use desktop capture, go to server, distributed automatically to course sites
• focusing minimizing presence of the technology
• provided a variety of work-flows, mp4, flash, etc
• can be controlled remotely
• ECHO 360 system has API to be controlled by Crestron podium lecture control systems
• appliances do processing of rough data, connects to 10-100 ethernet drop, pre-compressed format, does not bog down the network
• plug-ins for a variety of course management systems integrate well; Angel, WebCT, Blackboard, directly to iTunesU as a mode of delivery
• keeping formats standardized and formalized on campus; reduce IT support nightmare
• closed captioning options, which allow greater accessibility options
  • one of the measures- accessibility in the choice of system
• will watch to see what the rest of the campus moves to
• costs are ongoing, given funding models in academic institution
• looking at open-source initiatives, i.e. open-cast at Berkely
• mainly through F2F research, student perceptions, learning outcome evaluation, instructor expectations to address challenges
• successes pedagogy based on evidence to enhance learning
• interested in seeing working ECHO 360 solution, or discuss research outcomes, please feel free to contact Nick Marquis marquis(AT)mcmaster(DOT)ca

Diane Naughton, UofW

• takes video outputs to digital format, similar to the past; still need a camera, still need to get it to students
• looked at VBrick
  • has two output sources: MPEG4 (Quicktime, REAL Player, VBRick decoder), Windows Media Encoder (on Windoze)
  • very easy to use
• Connecting the Equipment
  • video, audio
  • finds its own IP, use of IP to connect to VBrick (browser-based); password protected
  • change output settings custom
• could be used with "easy" button
• could be archived automatically to FTP
  • used to broadcast though out classrooms (closed circuit- Sytek) but was discontinued
• as campus increased, needed to look at different solutions
• portable
• hardware
• not a computer
• virus free
• doesn't crash
• learning curve (very curvy)
• did lots of testing, couldn't find anything to make it unreliable

=problems

• bandwith, firewalls, software
• needed streaming server

reflector services

• UW pushes one feed to powerstream and they rebroadcast it using their servers
• 500GB = $875

Event Broadcasts

• Bill Gates visit, pushed to MSN website

DE

• Larry Smith, broadcast live classes to distance students
• add in VP Presenter Software to add-in powerpoint
  • was concerned about-
    • uncomfortable with tech
    • class size issues
    • missing students?
• Video Clip*