{"id":245,"date":"2010-10-28T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/?p=245"},"modified":"2011-01-28T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T10:37:02","slug":"introduction-to-the-me2u-project-echo360-personal-capture-for-student-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/2010\/10\/28\/introduction-to-the-me2u-project-echo360-personal-capture-for-student-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to the Me2U project – Echo360 personal capture for student learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In August 2010, a proposal submitted by a team from the University of Sussex, UK was awarded funding as part of the Echo360 grants programme<\/a>. The project, called ‘Me2U’ (on reflection, a title perhaps too close to the\u00a0 Chuckle Brothers<\/a> catchphrase), has set out to investigate the ways in which the personal capture version of Echo360<\/a> (PCAP) can be used to support student learning. Echo360 PCAP can be installed on a laptop and will record what is displayed on the screen, an audio track and a video feed from a webcam. It then produces the recording in three files formats – flash, m4v and mp3.<\/p>\n

One of the advantages that we see with Echo360 PCAP is that its interface is very simple and it does not require any specialist knowledge about converting a recording into an appropriate file type. The process by which a recording is published is exactly the same as that used in the Echo360 lecture theatre set up. Users do not, therefore, require any further technical guidance, freeing them to focus on the pedagogic aspects of the recordings.<\/p>\n

What we are really interested in finding out is how short recordings can, for example:<\/p>\n