May 2009 Presentation at Texas Tech
Posted by time on May 17th, 2009Categories: Research
Here is the presentation I gave at Texas Tech in May.
The Embedded Online Video Conversation:
Humanness and the Semi-Synchronous Situation in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
It discusses the use of Viddler in the online, asynchronous classroom, including an account of data collected through a student survey. This, is getting closer to my dissertation topic, but not quite exact.
Enjoyed the presentation-in-presentation approach. Fitting for the topic. Any luck finding this term that you’re looking for–interactive, synchronous, video? That term “participatory” is something that Henry Jenkins talks a lot about participatory culture. He says that the haves vs. have nots in _Convergence Culture_ is really those who can participate and those who can’t. In a way, people can participate/interact in a much different way. Pretty much everything is archiveable, but searchable is another matter. That, too, is changing; soon people will be able to search for key terms in places within larger videos or recorded audio.
I sort of am progressing toward finding the term. I am slowly moving into a different frame of mind on this: the term is not so important as a perfect, all-encompassing entity “x” that will enable me to say “X is missing/different.” I will likely find or create a term, but I can also just list out the factors to which I’m referring in a short list (e.g., physical presence, ability to see and hear others, synchronicity, immediacy of feedback, etc). I have not fully got into Jenkins’ book (CC), yet. However, I certainly will discuss “participatory.” Actually, I’ve been using that term over “interactive,” after reading Pierre Levy’s discussion on the fact that everything is interactive (including the individual stagnating on the sofa in front of the television, interacting to some level). I’ll get To Jenkins prob in August.
Everything could be archiveable, but not everything is archived (such as a FtF discussion). That it is archiveable is a benefit over the casual, unplanned conversation and over original video conferencing. However, I am realizing that far more important is not the ability to do so, but that it is actually done (archiveable vs. archived).
There are some people working on searchable audio and video(phonetic audio indexing), but I don’t think it is where it needs to be. Check out GAudio. Also, Viddler’s interactive timeline that I’ve discussed does have the ability to add tags. So, there is at least that technology for now(to manually add searchable text tags).