Recording research seminars and conference presentations is an effective and inexpensive way of capturing and sharing knowledge.\u00a0 Since 2006 Iriss has been disseminating these recordings as podcasts, either direct from the Iriss website or from the iTunes Store.\u00a0 This is cost-effective for Iriss and, importantly, for our contributors, whose time commitment to the process is relatively small compared to other ways of sharing knowledge.<\/p>\n
In June 2012 we re-launched the podcast series as Iriss.fm internet radio for Scotland\u2019s social services<\/a>, the intention being to extend the scope of the podcast beyond the traditional lecture or conference presentation to include discussions and debate.\u00a0 This move also aims to encourage and stimulate all stakeholders \u2013 practitioners, carers and people who use services \u2013 to contribute, both assisting the development of the evidence base and embedding the use of the evidence. Iriss.fm is also available as a podcast on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n While Iriss.fm is designed to a high standard we also encourage stakeholders to embrace the use of other kinds of audio sharing services such as Audioboom<\/a>\u00a0 and Soundcloud<\/a> , both of which may be used free of charge but which also offer inexpensive enhanced services.<\/p>\n Video can also be an effective way of disseminating evidence of all types and we have created a wide range of material in this medium<\/a>.\u00a0 Video streaming services such as Vimeo<\/a>\u00a0 have dramatically reduced the cost of distributing video by offering affordable rates and managing all technical aspects of video formatting.\u00a0 Given that social services have an oral rather than knowledge-based culture (Barratt 2003) which often results in staff valuing direct practical experience rather than other forms of learning, the production of audio and video recordings can be seen as a cost-effective response to this culture.<\/p>\n In addition to producing audio and visual recordings, Iriss worked in collaboration with the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival<\/a> to create MindReel<\/a>, a selection of films submitted to the Festival since its inception in 2006. While some of the films are available commercially, many were made by independent film-makers and were not readily available to wider audience.\u00a0 IRISS negotiated licensing terms that allow the films to be freely used for educational purposes, creating a valuable and valued educational resource from videos that were, for the most part, unavailable.\u00a0 These films can play a vital part in improving our understanding of, and reducing the sigma attached to, mental ill-health.<\/p>\n An important component of MindReel is its use of Vimeo to host and distribute the films.\u00a0 Before the advent of streaming video services, it would have been necessary to invest in a server (say \u00a35000) and the associated technical support.\u00a0 In contrast, at the time of writing, our Vimeo subscription is about \u00a3160 per year, allowing us to provide access to just over 100 films.\u00a0 Vimeo takes care of all technical format issues \u2013 including the enormous task of testing playback on the increasing variety of mobile devices – to ensure that the videos will almost certainly play on any device or browser.\u00a0 This kind of service makes MindReel economically viable and cost-effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recording research seminars and conference presentations is an effective and inexpensive way of capturing and sharing knowledge.\u00a0 Since 2006 Iriss has been disseminating these recordings as podcasts, either direct from the Iriss website or from the iTunes Store.\u00a0 This is cost-effective for Iriss and, importantly, for our contributors, whose time commitment to the process is … Continue reading Audio and video recording<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[28,30,31,29,32,27],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/iriss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}