Education Media Online

Learning and Teaching Seminar

Thursday 27th January 2005

EDINA and MAAS are funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Welcome and introductions

Welcome

Housekeeping

Introductions

Timetable for the day

Timetable 10:15

Refreshments on arrival

10:30

Welcome and introductions

10:45

Overview of the EMOL Service

11:00

Demo of EMOL film clips

11:30

Comfort break

11:40

How to incorporate film clips into teaching and learning

12.30

Lunch

13.30

Discussion session

15.30

Close

Introduction to MAAS and EDINA

JISC

EDINA MAAS

Origins

MAAS

Established by JISC in 2000

A partnership service of the British Universities Film & Video Council (http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/) and the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/)

Two arms: the Managing Agent and the Advisory Service

MAAS

The Managing Agent“to acquire and promote the use of electronic

moving picture and sound resources in the JISC Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) - or Information Environment (IE)” 

The Advisory Service “to provide information on the technical aspects

regarding delivery of these resources”

MAAS’s work

Selection

Acquiring rights

Digitisation and encoding

Cataloguing/metadata creation

Raising awareness

EDINA

http://edina.ac.uk

1983: Founded as small data library at University of Edinburgh

1995/6: Appointed a JISC national data centre in 1995/6 – with BIDS (Bath) and MIDAS (Manchester)

Selected by JISC in 2002 to host and deliver 300 hours of film/video - for download

EDINA

Guiding principles:

• Accessibility

• Outreach

• Interoperability

EDINA’s work

Hosting

Design and development

Delivery

User support

What’s in EMOL?

Currently 13 collections of film and video

About 300 hours consisting of c1,200 titles, increasing to c500 hours by the end of July

Films are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments

What’s in EMOL?

Collections containing life sciences, physical sciences and engineering titles include:

• Biochemical Society• Films of Scotland• IWF Knowledge & Media GmbH• Sheffield University Learning Media Unit

Subscriptions, Access and Support

SubscriptionFree of charge to UK further and higher

education institutions (until further notice)

Requires completion and signing of institutional sub-licence document

Service site representative and technical support contact must be nominated and details submitted

Institution can then nominate local support staff as required

Institution's Athens representative notified to cascade access to all local accounts

Exception for restricted medical material: http://www.emol.ac.uk/restricted.shtml

Individual access via Athens login and IP access; restricted medical material only available via Athens login

Login via front page of service website: http://www.emol.ac.uk/

Prospective user must abide by Terms of Use: http://www.emol.ac.uk/terms.shtml

Access

Support and FAQService Support: http://www.emol.ac.uk/support/

(includes user guides, service demonstrations and download testing)

Requirements for Local Support: http://www.emol.ac.uk/support/local_support.shtml (duties of site representative / technical support contact)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): http://www.emol.ac.uk/support/faq.shtml http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/maas/technology

Video editing softwareUlead in Education:http://www.ulead.co.uk/edu/Microsoft Movie Maker (Windows XP only)http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspxhttp://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2iMovie (Mac only)http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/QuickTime Pro (Mac/PC)http://www.apple.com/quicktime/upgrade/

Contact details and URLsEducation Media OnLine Websitehttp://www.emol.ac.uk/

EDINA Helpdesk - please direct queries herehttp://edina.ac.uk/

Email edina@ed.ac.ukTel. 0131 650 3302Fax 0131 650 3308

MAAS Media Onlinehttp://www.bufvc.ac.uk/maas/