‘Outstanding ICT initiative of the year’ 2008
The University of Westminster has won JISC’s ‘Outstanding ICT initiative of the year’ 2008 for websites which build upon pioneering work using video to mark students’ work. Lecturer Russell Stannard used screen recording software to record himself walking through various Web 2.0 technologies with a voice-over, which were then uploaded to a newly-created website available at this link: www.teachertrainingvideos.com. The site, which is openly accessible, quickly proved popular and rapidly built into a bank of over 30 videos, with lecturers frequently requesting new topics.
Its success led to the creation of another resource: www.multimediatrainingvideos.com, which offers free training videos in using more complex multimedia programmes like Flash, Director and Photoshop. In its second month, the site received nearly 60,000 hits.
These are websites that I plan to incorporate in the various resources I’m putting together for the staff development workshop at Derby. I think this is an excellent resource that staff would be very interested in. It also makes me wonder if we can include some similar video training work in our POCKET collaboration area on LabSpace, particularly now we are beginning to work with more external partners.