Podcasts - Computing and ICT - e-Dance Project: Choreography meets e-Science

Choreographic video annotation demo
Duration: 00:06:09
Date: 09.09.2009
Choreographic video annotation demo
In this video, choreographic researcher Sita Popat (U. Leeds) takes us through a demonstration which illustrates how the Open University's "Compendium" tool can be used to annotate video footage as part of choreographic scholarship.

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Choreographer and Programmer
Duration: 00:01:01
Date: 09.09.2009
Choreographer and Programmer
The e-Dance project did rapid application development through asynchronous collaboration between the partners, punctuated with intense day long workshops. At these, the choreographer would demonstrate how she used (or wished she could use) the Compendium e- science tool. The software developer would then code changes for feedback.

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Transition Points
Duration: 00:02:13
Date: 09.09.2009
Transition Points
The choreographer explains how and why she requested a feature to create Transition Points in video footage.

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Image Rollover
Duration: 00:02:05
Date: 09.09.2009
Image Rollover
The choreographer explains the value of placing images into key moments in a video, as supplementary material that she can use to support discourse in scholarship or teaching.

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Triple Movies
Duration: 00:01:35
Date: 09.09.2009
Triple Movies
The choreographer explains the value of being able to lay out an arbitrary number of videos on the canvas.

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Juxtaposition
Duration: 00:02:37
Date: 09.09.2009
Juxtaposition
Following the last clip, the choreographer discusses opportunistic and planned juxtaposition of video.

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Learning and Teaching
Duration: 00:18:35
Date: 09.09.2009
Learning and Teaching
The choreographer considers how hypermedia annotation tools such as this could scaffold students' project work and reflection as they track and communicate their work.

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Example Analysis
Duration: 00:04:00
Date: 09.09.2009
Example Analysis

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Linked Video Projects
Duration: 00:01:00
Date: 09.09.2009
Linked Video Projects
Following the last example, the choreographer shows how annotations in one context can co-exist in multiple other projects.

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Project Reflections
Duration: 00:17:12
Date: 09.09.2009
Project Reflections
The researchers discuss to what extent a hypermedia tool such as this might shape practice, and reflect on other aspects of the project.

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