#JiscDigLit

Knowledge Exchange Day for JISC Digital Literacies Programme

Storified by Dr Bex Lewis · Wed, May 16 2012 05:32:42

Finally, necessity has forced me to get to grips with iMovie, and this video gave me enough tips to get going on the editing…

I’m currently trying to export the video, so let’s see if it becomes viewable…

Workshop running at University of Winchester today:

Updated screenshots on YouTube for a workshop available this morning:

Workshop being run at The University of Winchester today:

A session that I’m running this afternoon:

Workshop that’s running at 10am:

Workshop I’m just about to run, with the following outline:

Why put your presentations online?

Placing your precious academic work online has always been seen as a danger to Intellectual Property, but with the option to apply ‘Creative Commons’ to your work, you can upload presentations in the public space, encourage interest in your academic work, and engage with the wider intellectual dialogue surrounding it. Putting such work online makes your ‘findability’ by Google much easier, and your academic reputation grows as a result.

Prezi: is a flash-based presentation tool, hosted online, which allows multiple authors to contribute (no large email files). Considered by many as the next step on from PowerPoint (but is in fact just another tool), Prezi ‘allows the speaker to encourage a dialogue, and visualise ideas as if you were drawing a mind map for your audience’.

Slideshare: is an online document hosting service where documents (in this case PowerPoint) can be uploaded, viewed, inspire others, and commented upon. Conversation is encouraged between interest groups, and slideshares can be embedded into blogs.

What will I learn in this session?

This session offers a brief overview to the two types of software, allowing you to make an informed choice as to which fits your needs most appropriately. The practical training will focus upon Prezi.

By the end of the session participants will have had:

• An opportunity to investigate/sign up on both accounts
• An opportunity to develop your first Prezi presentation
• A brief look at Creative Commons licensing

“No one would want to be a shambling, rotting corpse,” said Marcus Leaning, senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Winchester. “Yet since the early 2000s, there has been a proliferation of zombies expanding out of traditional media. I am interested in the meaning of zombies to producers and fans.”  (Times Higher Education)

‘You should study popular culture if you want to understand society. Zombies reflect the anxieties and concerns people have. One idea is that it’s due to austerity, another that it stems from the ‘‘climate of fear’’ after al-Qaeda. No-one really believes in zombies but it’s a way of thinking about big scary things such as a terrorist attack. It’s cathartic.’  (Metro)

“We’re living through the hardest economic times in most young people’s memories,” Dr Leaning said. ”Maybe zombies speak to austerity Britain in a way other monsters don’t.” (BBC)

• Times Higher Education story
• Telepolis (German)
• BBC coverage of the conference (1)
• BBC coverage of the conference (2)
• BBC Radio 4 interview (no longer available)
• Metro coverage of the conference
• Piled Higher and Deeper Comic
• Times Higher Education: Teaching Intelligence: Monster Mash proves highly infectious
• University of Winchester information
• Z-Rated: Protect your home from Zombies

Where have you seen Zombies in popular culture? I’m thinking of the Mini Cooper advert…