The project has been pulling together all the work done over the last few months and is starting to collate final reports, deliverables and case studies. When it comes to the open content released (235 items today and I’d guess > 300 items by end of project) I think we’ve exceeded all our expectations. The quantity and quality of content released is due to the hard work by supporters in the departments and crucially the podcasting team ( Steve and David in particular ) who have been fantastically busy over the last weeks. At Oxford we have very short terms of just 8 weeks and for OpenSpires that has meant many parallel recording activities done over a very short period. My favourite comment that shows the frenetic pace at the moment was a member of the team forgetting they had recorded the ex-Prime Minster of New Zealand the week before because it was squeezed between three other lectures.
In terms of recording and editing, here’s a quick rundown of what the podcasting team have been up to over the last 8 weeks nearly all connected with OpenSpires and published online under Creative Commons for reuse in education. This doesn’t include material done totally by departmental staff. Where possible we’ve tried to involved the student media team. Remember this is only a shortened version of the things the podcasting team have been filming and recording, it does not take into account the many hours of editing the video and audio captured or sent to us or the hours reviewing, uploading and publishing material or the teaching, training and support work they also manage to accomplish. And then there is the legal paperwork ….
Some highlights this term …
- Dorothy Hogdkin Chemistry Memorial lecture
- Philosophy – Radical Atheism event
- A series of dialogues on Classics
- China and Christianity lectures
- Climate Impacts Program
- Post-Copenhagen Climate change conference
- What next for Climate Change reporting
- Oxford Climate Forum
- Interviews on Environmental Change
- Classical Archaeology
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Ashmolean Museum
- Art History – Leonardo Da Vinci
- English – School of Journalism
- Politics – Haiti
- Development – Former PM of New Zealand and current UN administrator for Development
- English – Philip Pullman
- Indian Traces Literary Event
- JISC project videos
- Tolkien
- Open Access – Disseminating Oxford’s research