Keynote presentations

• Carol Skyring
  • Visual communication: from Zoopraxiscope to YouTube
• Obadiah Greenberg
  • Broadcast your university: YouTube and the global classroom
• Jon Baggaley, Claus Knudsen
  • The video-conferencing haves and have-nots: an online conversation between Professor Jon Baggaley and Dr. Claus Knudsen

Masterclasses

• Alison Walker, Stuart Henderson, Maldwyn Jones
  • Models of good practice in videoconferencing for learning and teaching
• Mark Childs, Imran Ali, Nigel Thomas
  • Using lecture capture systems

Pedagogy and assessment

• PA1: Geraldine Jones, Gabriele Edwards
  • Student digital media productions, take 2: assessment choice
• PA2: Carla Cornelissen, Ruth Romijn
• The use of video in an interactive learning environment
• PA3: Jeroen Bottema, Tom Visscher
• Video reflection in digital portfolios
• PA4: Hans Bronkhorst
  • Training distance learning tools at a distance
• PA5: Yvonne Crotty
  • The importance of assessment for learning when creatively using digital technology and web 2.0 technologies in a research based masters programme
• PA6: Eduardo Perez
  • The pedagogical role of asynchronous communication in face-to-face and distance education: a comparative study
• PA7: Palle Qvist
  • Video exams and the external examiners: results from a questionnaire
• PA8: Alena Hradilova, Libor Stepanek
  • The use of videoconference recordings database in academic writing classes
• PA9: Maria Hadjipavlou, Chris Comber
• Video conferencing in initial teacher training: does it make any difference in the construction of student teachers’ pedagogical knowledge?  
• PA10: Clive Holtham
  • Achieving the potential of web-conferencing:  lessons from media synchronicity theory
• PA11: Koos Winnips, Gert-Jan Verheij
• Didactic models for the use of videolectures
• PA12: Roy Williams, Regina Karousou, Simone Gumtau,
• Beyond text: interactive and collaborative reflective practice
• PA13: Mark Hoeksma, Ries Sieswerda
• Learning from practice to improve practice in various African cultures
• PA14: Tricia Thorpe, Jane Williams
  • How should we create video resources to enhance teaching and learning
• PA15: Bruce Nightingale
  • Much Ado About iPods: digital literacy and teaching Shakespeare

Tools and content oriented applications

• TC1: Dov Campbell, Kyle Beatty, Dan Crowley, Mary Fran Torpey
  • Strategies and tools for successful video-based projects 
• TC2: Frans Ward, Ivo Reints
• SURFmedia & SURFmedia Core: platform, architecture and features
• TC3: Mark Childs
• "I just don’t get it!” structuring learning in immersive virtual worlds
• TC4: Erik Boon
• Zoep: the engine
• TC5: Stephen Hull
  • Improving the quality of visual media in education, or anyone can make a movie
• TC6: Jan T.Goldschmeding
• Zoep: all your streaming content is only one click away
• TC7: Paul Bonnett
• The JANET Videoconferencing Service – milestones and new VC features for UK education
• TC8: Ton Uffink, Hans Maier
  • The use of an interactive screencas
• TC9: Sophie Alder & Carl Flattery
• Symbiosis (learning science through dance and learning dance through science)
• TC10: Michael Liebe, Mathias Fuchs
  • Ludic interfaces
• TC11: Johan Oomen
  • Video Active: European television heritage online

Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability

• PC1: Olaf Schulte
  • The Opencast Communit
• PC2: David Seume
• iPhone: cool tool for learning?
• PC3: Jean-Marc Dubois, Agnès Larcher, Philippe Isidori
• WebTV and strategic development: an opportunity for our University Media Centre
• PC4: Margunn Rommetveit
• The student as a facilitator in groupbased video conferences 
• PC5: H. Lori Schnieders, Sheila Buckingham
  • Using Skype for supervision of distance field placement with counseling and pre-service student teaching graduate students
• PC6: Hana Katrnakova
  • Communication technologies and acquiring academic and professional 
    communication skills: an interactive learning infrastructure and new methodology
• PC7: Deborah Arnold, Catherine Demangeon
  • Prolonging the enjoyment of light: VITRA and the contribution of audiovisual media to virtual training in glass art
• PC8: Kristi Jauregi, Lex Hermans
  • Video web- communication and 3D virtual worlds: two distinct environments which may contribute to enrich academic contexts for teacher training and foreign language learning and teaching programs
• PC9: Stewart Nixon, Catherine Chambers & Nicholas Watson
  • iTunes U at The Open University: developing an editorial framework and scaleable production workflows: a case study for an online platform
• PC10: Mathias Fuchs
  • Virtual knowledgespaces

People and technology: societal aspects

• PS1: Sally Reynolds, Mathy Vanbuel, Nikki  Cortoos, Helle Meldgaard, Ciaran McCormack
  • Results from the 2008 MEDEA Award
• PS2: Tess Maginess
  • Mentalentity: a preliminary evaluation of a film-based mental health project with rural men
• PS3: Grant Barclay
• Video: a fairy godmother in adult education?
• PS4: Maria Hayes
  • Drawing with light
• PS5: Tim Boundy
• The cultural and educational use of the JANET Videoconferencing Service by UK museums, galleries and archives
• PS6: Rudi Knoops, Sandy Claes, Veronique Vandekerchove
  • Enhancing the educational experience of a museum collection

PS2: Schedule

Mentalentity: a preliminary evaluation of a film-based mental health project with rural men

• Tess Maginess: Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Watch this presentation: link to Echo360 capture

I am hoping to share with you the results of a preliminary evaluation of a film based project called ‘Mentalentity’. The focus of the project is the promotion of positive mental health with men in rural areas in the south west of Ulster.

Research has demonstrated that men, especially rural men have not the best track record when it comes to articulating issues like mental health and illness. By taking a creative, hands-on approach, we are already gaining considerable success in engaging men. None of the men have ever been involved in this kind of project.

The men  are devising a short narrative film which confronts stereotypical attitudes towards mental illness and which also reflects current debates about ‘constructions’ of mental illness within a zeitgeist that diagnoses society  itself as a mad mad world.

‘Mentalentity’  was generated through a partnership between two local voluntary organisations, a statutory agency called the Southern Investing for Health Partnership,  a film training organisation, The Nerve Centre,  and Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Education (Open Learning Programme). The preliminary evaluation will chart the first stage of the project, commenting on the challenges faced. And how we have responded to them. Three short films are planned.