SLIDE 1 An online media analysis and collaboration tool for research and education
The Clipper Project
28/04/2016
- 1. City of Glasgow College; 2. The Open University; 3. ReachWill Ltd
The Big Red Button:
A Video Toolkit for Open Education - project report
John Casey 1, Trevor Collins 2 and Will Gregory 3
SLIDE 2
Workshop overview
» About Clipper › Why? › Clipper in a nutshell › Clipper project roadmap & activities » Demo, Hands-on & current activities » Feedback and discussion › Video and audio for learning & assessment? » Contacts and further information
SLIDE 3 Why?
» Digital video is now a ubiquitous part of our daily lives yet
it remains underused in education – especially for assessment purposes
» The nature of the media itself presents problems - large
files that are difficult to navigate, reference and share
» The Big Red Button toolkit aims to overcome these
- bstacles by enabling users to identify and share extracts
from video resources in the form of ‘virtual clips’
SLIDE 4
Why? # 2
» Works on tablets, smart phones and PCs » capture and share authentic evidence of knowledge and
skills in workplace and community settings and submit for assessment.
» More flexible and inclusive forms of assessment » Evidence for; improving employment opportunities,
meeting regulatory requirements, recording personal development and supporting career advancement.
SLIDE 5 Clipper: In a nutshell
» Clipper 1. 2. 3.
- 1. Clip: Create a virtual clip
(i.e. source file, start and stop point)
- 2. Organise: Annotate and
store clips and cliplists
- 3. Share: Cool URIs for sharing
playable clips and cliplists
“making video and audio as easy to work with as text”
SLIDE 6 Clipper project roadmap
» Proof of concept » Dissemination and
engagement
» Feedback » Identify needs » Prototypes and code » Community engagement » User requirements » Legal implications » Technical standards » Research focus
Phase 2: Co-Design
Prototypes
Phase 1: Market Research
Ideas
Phase 3: Co-Development
Pilot projects
» Pilot projects ›
EUSCREEN
›
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
›
Roslin Institute (UoE)
›
BUFVC
» Community adoption » Transforming workflows
SLIDE 7 Phases 1 and 2: Community feedback
» Phase 1
› “it’s genius, it’s just what we need”
–
Gill Hamilton: Digital Access Manager, National Library of Scotland
» Phase 2
› “with these sort of annotations on the clip, then I would be using nothing
else for the rest of my life”
–
Peter Hohenstein: Group Leader, Developmental Biology, Roslin Institute
› “getting that 360 degree picture of a research output would be really useful
if it was easy and not the pain that it is today”
–
Marc Silberschatz: Theatre Researcher, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
SLIDE 8
Phase 2: Overview
Phase 2: Co-Design
SLIDE 9 Phase 2: Activities and outputs (2015)
» Prototypes
› 3 coding cycles (Sept - Nov)
» Community Workshops
› National Library of Scotland
(Sept 28th)
› Manchester School of Art
(Oct 12th)
› British Library Labs (Oct 26th) › Coventry University (Nov 20th)
» Institutional Meetings
› The Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland (Nov 5th)
› Roslin Institute, University
› EUSCREEN (Nov 25th) › Open University (Nov 27th) › British Universities Film and
Video Council (Nov 23rd)
SLIDE 10
Phase 3: Pilot projects
Phase 3: Community Adoption and Ownership
SLIDE 11 Phase 3: Overview
» Clipper consortium
› City of Glasgow College › Open University › Reach Will Limited
» Pilot projects (adopters)
› The Royal Scottish Conservatoire
(Hilary Jones)
› EUSCREEN (Erwin Verbruggen) › The Roslin Institute (Colin Simpson) › BUFVC (Gabriel Hernandez)
» Industry / technology
support (collaborators)
› Microsoft Research / Azure (cloud
services - Kenji Takeda)
› Digirati (data model standards -
Tom Crane)
› Software Sustainability Institute
(coding standards - Iain Emsley)
› Nature Journals (scientific data -
Andrew Hufton)
SLIDE 12
Phase 3: Activities and tasks
» Toolkit development
› Clipper consortium
» Data model and
standards integration
› Clipper consortium › Digirati
» Cloud deployment
› Clipper consortium › Microsoft Azure
» Pilot projects
› RCS -The Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland (institutional)
› EUSCREEN (tool integration) › The Roslin Institute (cloud) › BUFVC (service integration)
» Publisher data policy review
› Nature
SLIDE 13 RCS pilot: Demo & Hands-on
http://clippertube.com/rcs/dip
clipper30
SLIDE 14
RCS pilot: Demo & hands-on
» RCS Pilot Scenario
› re-use of cultural media collections in open education
» Workflow
› create and open a new project › add multiple source files to the project › preview the files and create clips › add annotations to clips › sharing clips to cliplists
SLIDE 15
Discussion & feedback
» Reactions?
› Uses? Pros? Cons? Usable? Improvements?
» Implications for academic practice? › Overcoming the limits of traditional textual and numerical
information in education – in the context of assessment of practice-based learning.
› Makes audio-visual information as easy to cite, reference
and quote as text in academic discourse
› Transgresses the hegemony of the written word in
academia …
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The Big Red Button: Next steps
» Including education and training in our focus » Phase 3:
› Rebuild prototype from scratch › Mobile first › Modern , open and scalable tech › Free open source code
» Post Phase 3 - New projects and funding…
SLIDE 17 The Big Red Button: Prototype demonstration
http://clipperati-jc2.azurewebsites.net
SLIDE 18
Clipper: Contacts and further info
» Contacts
› John Casey (john.c.casey@googlemail.com) › Trevor Collins (trevor.collins@open.ac.uk) › Will Gregory (reachwill@gmail.com)
» Further information
› Blog: http://blog.clippertube.com › Demo: http://clippertube.com/rcs/dip › Twitter: #clippertube @clipper_rdm