Slides for a presentation promoting the use of "BoB", an online repository of TV and radio programmes for education. This presentation was given at the Education in a Digital Age event at the University of Lincoln, UK, in November 2017.

1. Education in a Digital Age (November 2017)
Dr Chris Willmott
Dept of Molecular
and Cell Biology
University of Leicester
cjrw2@le.ac.uk
As Seen OnTV: Using broadcast
media in university teaching

2. Using TV for University Teaching
Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos
http://tinyurl.com/Homage2OU

3. Overview
• Multimedia (esp visual media) can be integrated
into teaching in variety of ways
Use of
broadcast clips
Video
production
News
analysis

4. Overview
• Multimedia (esp visual media) can be integrated
into teaching in variety of ways
Use of
broadcast clips
… Especially using BoB

5. BoB (bobnational.net)
• “On demand” service, archive of TV and radio
broadcasts from over 65 UK (& International)
channels
• Already contains over 2 million records, growing daily
• Available for subscribing institutions (inc Lincoln)
• Currently user must be in UK
(issues re overseas DL)

6. BoB: Guide

7. BoB: Search

8. BoB: Search

9. A Child Against All Odds
http://tinyurl.com/PGSanalysis
Example (1): Documentary

10. Die Another Day
http://tinyurl.com/BondGeneTherapy1
http://tinyurl.com/BondGeneTherapy2
Example (2): Scene-setter

11. Example (2): Context and use
• Introduction to Year 2 lecture on Gene Therapy
• Used precisely because it is so wrong
• Set scene for more accurate discussion on the
approach (including another clip, from Horizon)

12. Holby City: “Better The Devil You Know”
http://tinyurl.com/HolbyXeno1
Example (3a): Discussion

13. • Pete has kidney failure and is being offered the last
opportunity of a transplant, using a kidney from a pig
• What ethical arguments might there be for/against
this operation?
• What scientific concerns might there be about an
operation of this sort?
• If you were Pete’s friend
would you suggest that he
accepts the doctor’s offer?
Why/why not?
Example (3a): Discussion

14. Example (3b): Discussion
• Video from Brainiac: Science abuse
• Used in a Year 1 tutorial on Experimental Design

15. • Students watch short clip describing an experiment to
investigate whether you can smell if someone is afraid
• Having watched the clip, they discuss:
- what was good about the design of the expt?
- what was wrong with the experiment?
http://tinyurl.com/terrorface1
Example (3b): Discussion

16. Brainiac Science Abuse: The Smell of Fear
http://tinyurl.com/SmellOfFear1
http://tinyurl.com/SmellOfFear2
Example (3b): Discussion

17. Example (3b): A better version
• students then asked to work with those sitting near
them to design a better experiment looking into
whether it is possible to smell fear
http://tinyurl.com/armpitsniffing1

18. A more scientific approach
Prehn-Kristensen et al (2009), PLoS ONE 4(6): e5987
http://tinyurl.com/anxietypaper

19. The Cell (2): The Chemistry of Life
http://tinyurl.com/ChemOfLifeEp2
Example (4): Full programme

20. Example (4): Context and use
• Year 1 double lecture session (video lasts 60 mins)
• A beautiful walk through the history of expts that
identified DNA as the molecule of inheritance
• Students provided with a structured worksheet to
aid note-taking during episode

21. Example (4): Context and use
• Difficult to fit full episode into lecture slot?
• Not best use of F2F time?
• BoB raises potential for requiring students to watch
programme before lecture or tutorial
• Flipped classroom
• “Viewing lists” as well as “reading lists” for module

22. Biology on the Box
• Recommendations for TV (and radio) footage that
can used for enriching bioscience teaching
• Primarily designed for use in conjunction with
Box of Broadcasts
• Programme tips equally valid without BoB, just
harder to get hold of
• Sharing best practice
- metadata & keywords
- describe usage
• A collaborative project
- students as producers
- different institutions

23. Biology on the Box
• Biologyonthebox.wordpress.com
• Started September 2014
• Post of various styles

24. Various styles
Awareness of
digital availability…
… plus notes

25. Various styles
Clip within programme…
… plus structured
activities

26. Various styles
News story
News overview

27. Various styles
Radio
Re-posting

28. Posts by Students AudioVisuals In
the Disciplines
(AVID)

29. Posts by Interns

30. Posts by Colleagues

31. [Other discipline] on the Box
• Other subject areas starting to develop similar sites
• e.g. Englishonthebox.wordpress.com
Historyonthebox.wordpress.com

33. Acknowledgements
• University of Leicester Teaching Enhancement Fund
• University of Leicester Graduate Gateway Fund
• Thanks to authors

34. Any Questions?
E-mail: cjrw2@le.ac.uk
Twitter: cjrw
Slideshare: cjrw2
Delicious: chriswillmott
Blogs: www.bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com
www.biologyonthebox.wordpress.com
www.biosciencecareers.wordpress.com
www.lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com

35. TRILT
www.trilt.ac.uk
• Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
• Run by Learning on Screen (formerly British
Universities Film and Video Council)
• Learning of Screen also offers range of other
services including DVD back-up service for missed
programmes, and Box of Broadcasts

36. TRILT
www.trilt.ac.uk offers:
• Weekly e-mail alert advising about programmes
coming up in next two weeks that match your
keywords
• Searchable database of transmission history
covering broadcasts since 1995, in which all
programmes are given an ID code
• Latter can frequently be used to identify
recordings available through BoB and/or BUFVC
back-up service (inc all terrestrial TV since June 1998)