Oxford Mid Summer 2024 one

 start of a drama maybe

Oxford Mid Summer

Situation for a drama. Pub garden in countryside near Oxford. At least two characters - police officer and local journalist - maybe more. They discuss news from London but never go there. Recently an accidental death of student jumping off bridge into shallow wter in river. Reminds them of similar accident a while ago and unreported hit and run in country lane. They hear about events in London including MPs, think tanks and newspapers. They hear that the student who died in the hit and run had been an intern the previous summer hand delivering documents from a think tank to newspapers. Conversation continues. there is no murder solution if there ever was one but a richer picture of a social situation becomes more clear for the audience.

Notes for drama show on social media

During May looking at Futurelearn MOOC about being an online educator. This is ahead of June visit by the Standup Philosopher and EduExe events. From #THEdigitalUK event it is possible a digital university is based on one campus. Education through social media could be similar to promoting performance bot specific events and mre general understanding. It turned out videos from OU course were already on YouTube with Creative Commons licence. ( Search on Residents and Visiters jiscnetskills )

Recently the Drama Show on Phonic has had more short pieces that promote live performance. Also short stories read aloud though intended for print. There is more awareness of social media. This could go further though. couple of years back there was permission to broadcast climate stories from COP but not at end of last year. There are previous ones also. There are now many posters in Princesshay and the mural near the library is still expected. So maybe there are possibilities around this. There is a wide range of content available on climate but working out how to relate to the university is important as they have a significant interest.

Creative Commons is an option on YouTube but rarely chosen . One advantage is that sound can be played on radio. We can work out ways round this with agreements to recognise copyright but get the results Creative Commons is designed for.

Over the summer various experiments are possible. Starting with music where remix on radio is fairly well accepted. There are Phonic FM benefits coming up in the autumn. Also Sonic Whip will be visiting Devon.

Moving dates for May

 I had thought a Futurelearn MOOC about online learning did not start for a couple of weeks but it turns out to be available.I will try to start it and share bits online during May. This is ahead of the EduExe festival next month. I have propsed trying to link radio shows but this is now a bit vague. Depends what happens in May.

Also I am shifting te weeks around for the MOOC. Chris Norton will be away the last two weeks so next week Wild Show will be include chat about "Innovation and Accessibility" . We have also covered voice interface to computers / phones on the We Don't Know show with Jon Mahy. This week starts with "Who Am I Online?" . It turns out the OU borrowed some video from JISC. Creative Commons so no problem. Still very relevant a decade later.

There are three in the series. 

Also David White has a more recent video on Vimeo.

This covers AI and design of courses to move online. From  a business school in Sydney so there are links to management issues.

Also on the 22nd May there is an event at the Forum about STEAM - Arts in context of Science, Tech, Engineering and Maths. The idea of a STEAM village in central Exeter follows visits to BETT.

15 minute STEAM Village

 These notes are a basis for tweets with clips of the route. there may be other 15 minute STEAM villages, This one is in central Exeter.

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15 minute STEAM Village

Last week on Drama Show I left for a visit to Tech Exeter breakfast at Innovation Hub. Both trips there and back were under 15 minutes so the timing scope is a possible space.

BETT at ExCEL had a STEM Village based on Micro BIT. But the STEAM Village is gone ( Arts into Science Technology Engineering and Maths ) . Related terms? - Creative Economy as part of Innovation . 

Tech Exeter featured a music discovery project - DISCO - itsdisco.com - based on sharing tracks and comments. But no mention of radio. How to connect with Phonic.fm ?

Thursday may be a good day for Creative Industries at the Innovation Hub so another visit possible or exchange via Twitter etc.

Topics could include relating BETT to central Exeter / how to promote performance through radio clips and social media. Phonic is a music channel usually. Not obvious how to represent drama through clips and remix.

This week Janey Godley is at the Northcott. Promo includes many clips online. Study this for clues on method.

There are Adobe courses at the Phoenix. At BETT launch of Express, cloud based AI. What to think?

Micro BIT can be borrowed from the library.

There will be another #EdTech show at ExCEL - Learning Technologies in April. Same time as one on digital universities in Exeter. Can they be compared? Is HR part of HE ?

MOOC scene seems viable for Tech and Business. Can online work for Humanities and Social Science ?

Digital Humanities has a podcast studio. Is there still a role for radio in real space ?

Tweet bundle ahead of next year

 This text became three tweets. Here in blog as one chunk. To be expanded /  repeated next year.

( April exists now as part of the mix )

News is that Times HE will launch a table next year for online universities. Starts in April, close to a conference in Exeter. Same dates Learning Technologies show at ExCEL London. Coursera and Udemy will be there, just about mentioned in blogs about HE and #EdTech. I think the training / company end of online learning is interesting as it shows something is possible. HR has moved courses online /hybrid faster than the campus. ( impression from last year, needs a check ) Meanwhile climate continues, relates to science and storytelling. ExCEL could be under water on certain scenarios. Topic for BETT as well.

Six month plan

Starting with reality, main events outside Exeter are BETT in January and Learning Technologies in April, both at ExCEL in London. Issues around online learning can be part of discussion already, including voice computer interface. Climate topics connect to the mural near Phoenix that will appear in the "Spring" , date unknown. 

Moving on the fiction / drama there are stories from Exeter University as part of the mural project. Also stories from Widsith and Deor / Climate Hub.

The Drama Show tries to promote live performance in the same style as music radio / sound samples with edit / remix. this is not well established for drama but may work better with "musical theatre" . Phonic FM is now on DAB in Plymouth were "musical theatre" is studied. 

The Drifters Girl is in Plymouth 13 -17 Feb and there is a CD of London version. In Exeter,  Motown in Jan /Marvin Gaye in Feb. These are performances, there is no "book" but still a good reason to play tracks.

Other examples may appear. Previous talk clips on creative commons and content marketing can be repeated as time allows.

Education moving online raises similar issues. How can a MOOC approach be funded ? How to promote courses that are paid for as part of this ?

Notes around drama , BETT, Plymouth DAB 2023 / 24

To be expanded later. BETT is edtech show in Jan '24. Phonic FM will be on DAB in Plymouth by the end of '23.

Drama Show ( Thur 8 -10 ) has included stories from Exeter University on climate. Issues around copyright, recording, creative commons determine the scop of what can be broadcast. Links online can be promoted.

BBC clips can be put on YouTube for example STEAM from Today. 

https://youtu.be/bsvczv2rxvY

School in Bournemouth has Arts as well as STEM. Some words

Science  Technology  Engineering  Arts  Maths

from schools this could relate to universiy topics via

Digital Humanities  Communication

drama may be part of communication but not mentioned on this video

https://youtu.be/slJO1DOo7xs?si=8nkPNS8v4SbXJOuR

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/communications/comms/#course-content

When drama show is available in Plymouth maybe other forms of drama course and performance can be found. Link suggestions welcome. Also for BETT.

https://www.livingstone-aspirations.org/bournemouth-universitys-led-wall-provides-exciting-opportunity-for-livingstone-academy-collaboration-to-benefit-careers-of-students/

PC Pro has reported on how trade shows will soon offer digital locations. Possibly at personal computer price levels. Universities may have studio resources as at Bournemouth. Phonic FM has a reasonable sound studio. Digital Humanities Lab  might be a radio studio in some ways. AI now has possibilities, campus budgets best option over next year or so.

Stephen Heppell is on YouTube with Creative Commons licence so could be replayed

https://youtu.be/FvFE8MI2lvY?si=k3l2ZQE99i5OYqLL

Since lockdown the option for learning to move online has gone away from campus discussion. Everything back to normal for the student experience. So it seemss, comment welcome. Is there a "golden generation" of school students who learnt during lockdown? What options exist for HE ? 

Russell Prue and NetSupport radio may be able to get an interview with Stephen Heppell to ask about what is happening around the time of BETT. 

Gutenberg Parenthesis another update

 During a week of holiday I have started to read "The Gutenberg Parenthesis2 by Jeff Jarvis. that is i started abouthalf way through and concentrated on the ideas about what to do next. So I still have only a vague idea of the chronology. I have another sort of holiday, a fortnight, coming up soon so will try to read it from page one to 250 . Depends on the rain, I may be moving about.

This is not just a copy from the storytelling version of Gutenberg Parenthesis as in the MIT video you can find on YouTube. There is reference to cafe society in London as described by Habermas. Jeff Jarvis seems to defend the internet and social media as we experience them today by casting doubt on just how civilised the London cafe was in reality. Some mean speech, low gossip, bad jokes apparently. 

Continues on Thursday in Wild Show. Main problem for the show is how to combine a radio studio and a cafe. Voice is anothertopic that seems stronger in the storytelling video. Audio books may not be doing as well as sometimes claimed but  there is a dynamic there. I am still puzzled about scale and timing. The closing of the parenthesis is a different date for different places.