Evidences collection Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004 ERT production of educational formats

1.Context Organizational and Cultural context Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Context Organizational and Cultural context Audio-video tools is a course organized by the Training Office of the University of Siena for the technical and administrative staff. The course has been designed on the basis of the questionnaires distributed among the personnel in 2003 within the DiDà project Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Physical characteristics 2.Significance Spaces Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

2.Significance Spaces 1.Physical characteristic Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 Audio-video course is held in a classroom with seats put in a circular way. First floor, Certosa of Pontignano University of Siena.

2.Significance Spaces 1.Physical characteristic Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 Certosa of Pontignano is wonderful certosa located in the Chiantishire and restored by University of Siena. It usually hosts conferences, seminarios and summer schools. The classrooms are often used for professional training classes The room is organized to held the activity A cloister at the entrance of the complex lead to the classroom On the Chianti road landmarks available

2.Significance 1.Physical characteristic Spaces No Clear signs about the dedicated function of rooms Seats and tools are distributed in the room in order to allow a cooperative work The tools themeselves afford the focus of the activity Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 The room is organized to held the activity A cloister at the entrance of the complex lead to the classroom On the Chianti road landmarks available

1.Aims 2.Objectives Aims and objectives Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Aims Aims and objectives 2.Objectives The istitutional aims are available at Essentially practical nature Basical theoretical notions Knowledge of the functioning of technical systems for movie recording, direction and editing Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Aims Aims and objectives 2.Objectives At the end of course, the students should be able to properly use tools and softwares for audio and video editing Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 Essentially practical nature Basical theoretical notions Knowledge of the functioning of technical systems for movie recording, direction and editing

1.Action pattern Actions Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004

1.Action pattern Actions one teacher starts the lesson briefly introducing the theory of shooting students listen and takes notes the practical part of the course starts students fix the camera the teachers help them one teacher explains how does the fixing work Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004

1.Action pattern Actions students and teachers together think the screenplay Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004 students and teachers together prepare the set: montage of the lamps,…

1.Action pattern Actions … placing of the seat and plugging the tools Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/ choose of the right light one teacher explains the good setting of the light

1.Action pattern Actions Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004 students set the camera parameters guided by the teachers last discussions before…… the ciak

1.Action pattern Actions Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004 they watch the product: their clip

1.Method 2.Role Teacher Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Method Teacher 2.Role Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/ Essentially practical and interactive - Basical theoretical introduction continuously explecated by pratical sessions - Two working groups

1.Method Teacher 2.Role Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 Not a unique teacher, but a staff formed by teachers, tutors and technicians in order to better answer to emerging questions of the participants

1.Method Teacher 2.Role Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 advisortutor monitoring verifying instructorexplainer facilitator

1.Externalization 2.Activity traces Traces Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Externalization Traces 2.Activity traces During the class the students cooperatively produce a short clip in order to practice the knowledge they have acquired Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 At the end of the day the class is full of notes and supporting materials provided by teachers which have been left there by students The clip the students have produced is stored on a VHS

1.Number of students 2.Grouping 3.Roles Social Orchestration Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Number of students Social Orchestration 2.Grouping 3.Roles Students sign in the register with thier names during the break Students names are available on the office web-site. Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Number of students Social Orchestration 2.Grouping Students are asked to sign in the register with thier names during the break Formats: Apprenticeship and discussion. The activities involve all the participants both in theoretical phase (discussion) and in the cooperational production of the clip (apprentoceship). 3.Roles Bio-Informatics: Propedeutic class 28/09, Sequence class 07/10 Students names are available on the office web-site.

Social Orchestration 1.Number of students 2.Grouping 3.Roles Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Subjects 2.Content situating Content Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Subjects Content 2.Content situating The course themes are described on the official program which has been sent by mail to all the participants, teachers and tutors Main themes - Basical theoretical knowledge about audio video tools - Basical elements on video shooting and editing - Technologies of video shooting and editing - Laboratory: practical experiences on shooting and editing The content of this course has been directly asked by several staff members within the questionnaire on formative needs distributed in 2003 by Didà. Participants selection has been managed with the university division administrators which should well know the skills of their collaborators. In order to better know their particular knowledge, the participants have filled a questionnaire on their technical skills at the starting of the course Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Age 2.Special needs Student information Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Age Student information 2.Special needs The staff acces the university personnel database to find all the information about who is attending a training course The class has been quite eterogeneous Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Age Student information 2.Special needs Looking at the profiles the students filled on didà web site is possible to inderctly desume the age of the students No formal ways of accounting for special needs were observed; students asked questions concerning organizational issues to the teachers, tutors or Training Office staff The staff acces the university personnel database to find all the information about who is attending a training course Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Duration 2.Steps Time Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Duration 2.Steps Time Register filled in by teacher accounts for who holds lessons and which are the topics treated Both duration and steps of bio-informatics classes have been sent to the participants by official mail by the Traing Office The classes are organized in four parts Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

Assessment And Evaluation Bio-Informatics: Propedeutic class 28/09, Sequence class 07/10 1.Assessment method 2.Evaluation

Assessment And Evaluation 1.Assessment method 1.Evaluation At the end of the training course students fill in evalutaion form Assessment session are arranged at the end of the course and it is provided by the students involved in practical activity. Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

Evidences collection ERT production of educational formats Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004

1.Objects in use 2.Status (open or closed in terms of questionability and negotiability) 3.Availability Artifacts and Materials Audio-video tools : Class 08/10/2004

2.Status (open or closed in terms of questionability and negotiability) 3.Availability 1.Objects in use PC VideoCams Tripod Projector Mic Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/2004 Artifacts and Materials Scene lampWhite board

2.Status Functional to activity but not directly used by participants Individually used by users. Videos shared with the others Support for videocams use Used for sharing videos [closed +-][open +-][closed +-] 3.Availability from [closed++] to [open ++] Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/ Objects in use Artifacts and Materials Individually used by users. Sound shared with the others Integrated to the activity [open +-] PC VideoCams Tripod Projector Mic Scene lampWhite board Support to the teacher lesson [closed +-]

2.Status 3.Availability two vieocams available one white board available Audio-video tools: Class 08/10/ Objects in use Artifacts and Materials PC VideoCams Tripod Projector Mic Scene lampWhite board [closed +-][open +-][closed +-][open +-] [closed +-] one PC available to activity one microphone available two tripod available for camera two professional scene lamps available one pojector available