INFORUM 2010

How Students and Faculty are Using Streaming Media in the Classroom: How Does a “Playlist” Become an Online Publication or Course?

Author

Eileen Lawrence, Alexander Street Press, United Kingdom

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Abstract

Eileen Lawrence from Alexander Street Press will show how customers using streaming audio (music, plays, spoken word) and streaming video (newsreels, documentaries, ethnographic field footage) have created online courses and personal playlists.

Attendees of this talk with see how to use simple online “clip-making” capabilities, and then assemble the clips into personal playlists, along with whole music albums, videos, Web content, and content from other publishers’ online collections.

We will show how these playlists become online courses, with specific examples of playlists that were created by both instructors and students. Annotation capabilities turn the playlists and clips into richly detailed projects that become “online publications.”

We’ll show how faculty and students around the world share these creations, copying them, adding to them, and using one another’s playlists as ready-to-go classes.

Attendees together will create a new playlist called “A history of Prague in sound and video” during the presentation. Come listen to the music, watch the video footage, and be creative together!

Author's professional CV

Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Eileen Lawrence has worked with academic libraries since 1980. She is one of the founders of Alexander Street Press, having previous served as Vice President of Sales at Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. Eileen has built sales and marketing teams, executed consortium, regional, and national purchasing agreements around the world, and helped to create the Alexander Street collections. Her commitment to creative pricing models and universal access has made it possible for users at all types of libraries to access to previously out-of-reach content. Eileen holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M. Ed. from Antioch University Graduate School of Education.

Before her work with libraries, she was a demonstration classroom teacher and consultant who trained education-degree candidates at the university level and was named one of the top dozen teachers in New England. She brings to Alexander Street her passion for the humanities and social sciences and her firm belief that a humanities education is the best preparation for a good life.