Dinner for two, or more...teaching and learning with digitised resoruces

Paola MarchionniJISC Digitisation Programme Manager

Paola Marchionni, JISC Digitisation Programme Manager – 24 March 2011

Dinner for two, or more…teaching and learning with digital content

1. Starter:guidance and support material

• “How to” guides to help use digital content in teaching and learning Welsh Journals Online – pdf British History Online - screencasts

• basic guides for students and teachers, web pages or pdf• links to Welsh journals archive• links to further reading

• more sophisticated way of delivering support• more immediate, but possible technical drawbacks

2. Raw:digital assets, digitised content

• Mainly primary sources: images, text, moving images, sound recordings, maps, data

• Some secondary sources, eg journals• Spanning centuries• Different subject areas: history, society, politics, arts

literature, medicine, theatre and entertainment

InView - BFI• 2000 non-fiction TV films from 20th C• covering: education, society, politics, history, entertainment …

British Cartoon Archive – University of Kent•100,000+ socio-political cartoons from British cartoonists

3. Rare:Structured aggregation of digital assets

• Freeze Frame: historic polar images 1845-1982 thematic aggregation of images within the

digitised collection for browsing and presentation some degree of personalisation from the user

• thematic aggregation of images for presentation and navigation purpose (ships, Ice and iceberg, penguins, Air transport etc…)• Create your own grouping

4. Medium:Learning objects/resources

• Stand-alone resources, objects, tutorials background information about a topic - tutorial,

essay digital assets and contextual informationdeep links to other digital items in the collection some degree of user interaction and manipulation

Vision of Britain through time – University of Portsmouth •Maps, statistical information, historical descriptions, resources •1801-2001• stand-alone tutorials on a variety of subjects

Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource - Birmingham m & Art Gallery• Over 3000 works of Pre-Raphaelite art• Stand-alone thematic learning resources linked to the digitised images to support teaching and learning

•learning resource on Wood engraving: images and commentary by specialist • images metadata• zooming function• create your own learning resource to integrate in teaching and learning• discussion group•glossary of terms•links to external resources

5. Cooked:Interactive learning activities

• First World War Poetry Digital Archive high degree of interactivity focused on a particular task

First World Ward Poetry Digital Archive – University of Oxford• interactive timeline• plot WW1 events and poets’ life, diaries, manuscripts• select what you plot• links to metadata and images of manuscripts

• stand-alone tutorial/learning path• can manipulate content (zoom, print, download)• can add content from the archive and from the Web• can add notes to images and path• can compare manuscripts• exemplar tutorial and “create your own”

5. Really well cooked: structured activities for specific

outputs

Eg: Cabinet Papers 1905-1972 – The National ArchivesEssay writing tool: The writing frame

•interactive writing frame to help structure essays• guidance on how to interpret different sources • links to digitised documents• exemplars and “make your own”

6. Buffet: linking to or aggregating other

resources, user generated content

• Eg: Visualising China, OurWikiBookspersonalised experiencelinking to external resourcesaggregating content in different waysvisualisationsUser Generated Content

•search across different China collections• search external platforms (Flickr, Google books…)•User tagging and comments• workbench•Visualisation tools

• co-creation of computer related learning resources between teachers and students• bringing together already existing resources• creation of a wiki book