September 19, 2007
Click On Series 2
The first programme in the second series of Radio 4's IT magazine programme Click On aired at 4.30 pm on Monday (listen again here), and will be filling that slot for the next few weeks.
As with all OU/BBC co-productions, there's an Open2.net website too: Open2 Click On Website.
To support the series, the Open2 folks are rolling a multipart tutorial on getting started with Netvibes: Open2.net Web 2.0 Workshop
The first programme featured a story about the huge IT project behind the Beijing Olympics, as well as the use of GPS tracking for monitoring bird migration. The final item - on the nature of web search - is something we might be even able to use to set up a couple of topics in our Beyond Google info skills course.
The audio for series 1 of Click On (broadcast earlier this year) is still available from the Radio 4 Click On website, or via a Grazr widget (if you have a Real Audio browser extension installed): Click On Series 1.
I'm still trying to decide whether or not it 'works for me' when embedded in FaceBook - that is, whether I really want to consume content in the FaceBook environment? (Speaking of which, Martin posted some interesting thoughts about Facebook stickiness earlier today...)
If I get a chance this weekend, I'll try to revamp that feed with a bit more content from OpenLearn, and elsewhere.
One of the things that's be carefully considered in our current internal broadcast review is how to recapture something of the traditional teaching related broadcast model, where broadcast programmes were used as part of course delivery, as well as being free to view by anyone who happened to tune in at the time.
Hopefully, Click On will provide some relevant, related listening for some of our IT programme courses, and maybe even a clip or two we can link to from within them?
(For a taste of fondly remembered, late night/early morning OU BBC2 broadcasts, there are one or two classic OU clips on YouTube (and here are some spoof OU shorts... What I'm waiting for is the techno 'pa pah, pa pahh' remix of classic OU idents ;-)
Posted by ajh59 at September 19, 2007 11:21 AM