Eddie Izzard brings Old English to life

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Just two days before we launch  our Ancestral voices: the earliest English literature course as part of the Mosaic project, we are still finding excellent content we want to use.  As our author Sandie Byrne said, “I wish I had found this before”

Because of the specific approach we have taken to licensing and incorporating content into the course for JISC we are not going to be able to use this for this run, but next time we’ll do what we can.

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About Marion Manton

I amSenior Manager: Learning Design and co-manager of TALL with David White. Previous to that I was eLearning Research Project Manager. As well as the day to day running of TALL I am responsible for the ensuring that all TALL programmes are best practice examples of learning online for their audience. I work closely with course teams to specify the learning they want to achieve with their programme and to identify the best uses of technology to do this. I also maintain currency with the latest research in eLearning, to ensure that TALL is aware of and exploits the best current knowledge of what works in terms of effective eLearning. My particular interests are in effective pedagogical models for different learning scenarios and how best to facilitate these by the appropriate use of technology. As well as the development of effective tools and processes to help academics identify these and translate knowledge of their subject and teaching into high quality online learning.

4 thoughts on “Eddie Izzard brings Old English to life”

  1. “Because of the specific approach we have taken to licensing and incorporating content into the course for JISC we are not going to be able to use this for this run, but next time we’ll do what we can.”

    I think one of the things we need to be able to do in the new media age is the design of courses that will accommodate the inclusion of discovered materials, in terms of technically how we might incorporate them (e.g. embed codes, lightbox wrapped frames etc), and also legally, in terms of a simple to understand, “if you do it this way, you’ll be okay” rights’n’usage framework.

  2. PS so for example, you had no problem, technically, morally or otherwise, in embedding the movie in this post?

    Would the same be true if you wanted to use the clip in your course?

    It’d be *really* interesting if you do a post comparing how you ‘just used’ the clip in this post at a technical and legal/rights clearance level, compared with the steps you (believe you) would have to go through to use the same clip in a course?

    Are you any more likely to do such a post if I said “please”????? Please… 🙂

  3. If I may just jump in and give my perspective (as one of the web devs working on Mosaic)…

    One of the design goals of Mosaic is to physically include copies of the external sites and media within the Ancestral voices course, so we’d need a copy of the file and permission to use it:

    * we probably wouldn’t get this from YouTube (not within original terms of the user uploading the video), so…
    * we’d have to go to the user who uploaded it, but for many clips up there, the user doesn’t have the rights to give us permission, so…
    * we’d have to find the rights holder and get permission (and a copy) from them, perhaps incurring a fee.

    If we had found the clip earlier, we might have done that – assuming any licensing fees were commensurate to the value added to the course.

    It might be that we could just use a clip under Fair Use terms, but this doesn’t seem likely given the length of the clip, and that we’d be using it as content rather than, say, to illustrate a point about Eddie Izzard.

    Conversely, for this post we’re using YouTube’s standard embedding approach, which they encourage us to use: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=57788

    Using their embedding approach, we’re playing by their rules and supporting their business model (external embeds generating traffic towards their main site with adverts, perhaps).

    It’s a lot easier to embed and link out than to incorporate local copies, IHMO.

    Cheers,
    Dave.

  4. Excellent find! It’s marvelous how languages evolve and it is thrilling to see “living fossils” such as these. The language, that is, not the farmer.

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