streaming media

The DIVERSE Conference held this year in Aberystwyth University in Wales from 24 to 26 June brings together an active community of practitioners all engaged in developing innovative visual educational resources.

This year the sharing of educational video material was really high on the agenda with Obadiah Greenburg from YouTube describing YouTube EDU, Olaf Schulte from ETH Zurich presenting the Opencast community and the Matterhorn project and the team from the University of Amsterdam talking about ZOEP - this is the space to watch for how, and perhaps more importantly,  where educational videos in higher education will be found in the future.

Taking place in the lovely and surprisingly warm surroundings of coastal Wales, this community of practitioners provides a rich resource of know-how and expertise in the field of educational technology and multimedia production. You can follow the conference live here.

eStream, which is a European funded programme focussed on the use of streaming media in education, has recently published its fourth report, entitled "Transnational Exchanges of Streaming Material" This publication was written by ATiT staff members Mathy Vanbuel and Mieke Bijnens and can be downloaded from the eStream website or here.

The report about the eStream workshop, hosted by ATiT in Leuven in May, is now available on-line from the eSTREAM web site. This report contains the presentations given as well as notes from the individual sessions. Photos taken at the seminar are also available form the same site.

ATiT hosted a lively Best Practice Seminar on Video Streaming in Europe in Leuven from 26 - 28 May in the context of the eSTREAM project which attracted over 40 participants from all over Europe.

Karolien François recently finalised a short movie demonstrating how streaming works. The flash movie is aimed at the education and training community as part of ATiT's contribution to the eSTREAM project. View it on the eSTREAM website in Dutch, English, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

Next to the tailor-made training, ATiT also offers five three-hours workshops with the following titles:
1. How to use streaming media in a classroom/training context?
2. How to use videoconferencing in a classroom/training context?
3. Things you should know if you would like to participate in a European project
4. How to integrate ICT in training: an overview
5. Choosing the electronic learning environment that answers your needs

The first results of the EU-funded eStream project are ready! The publication called "Streaming Media in the Classroom" gathers best-practises and endeavours both technological and pedagogical issues around the educational use of streaming media. Download it here.

Mathy Vanbuel and Helena Bijnens attended the eStream project meeting on 11 and 12 March in Halkida (Greece). The EU-funded eStream project aims to explore and advance the use of streaming media technologies in education. The first results of eStream will be published at the end of March 2004 and will consist of a publication of best practise and case studies.