scholarly journals Training future describers: A practice report from an audio description classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Magdalena Jankowska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Product Delivery ◽  
Academic Teacher

Over the past few years, we have been observing an exponential growth in audio description (AD). This has resulted in a growing need for trained AD professionals and, consequently, for AD training. While the ADLAB PRO project helped define the professional profile of the audio describer and produced a range of training materials, there is still considerable room for other AD training approaches to be shared with a view to inspiring AD trainers when creating their courses. Thus, this practice report presents selected exercises that I have been developing since 2009, when I first started teaching AD both at university and outside academia (e.g., during dedicated courses for broadcasters, NGOs and cultural institutions), presenting their learning outcomes and framing them within the ADLAB PRO framework of competencies for professional audio describers. All the activities offered in this article are based on my professional experience as an academic teacher and researcher and also as a professional describer and accessibility manager who overlsees the entire AD production process: from negotiating with clients through production (scripting, proofs, recording, quality control) to product delivery and on-site assistance.

Quality Assessment in Audio Description

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-177
Author(s):  
Louise Fryer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
European Research ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Research Project ◽  
European Research Project ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Partially Sighted

Audio description (AD) is one of the younger modes of translation. It shares many similarities with interpreting, although AD users have specific needs because they are blind or partially sighted. As quality is of concern in both fields, this chapter explores the overlaps to see what can be learned for AD from research already carried out in interpreting. Macro and micro criteria suggested for each discipline are compared, and describer competencies are discussed in the context of AdlabPRO, a European research project that seeks to define the professional profile of an audio describer and develop training materials and courses. The chapter concludes that assessment protocols and rating scales developed for interpreting might be adopted for AD, after appropriate adaptation to accommodate areas where the fit is incomplete. These include synchrony and the need for the AD to be considered, not in isolation, but in relation to the existing audio elements of the source text (ST).

Editor's Note

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Kaliel
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Red River ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relationship Of

The articles published in our Fall 2016 edition are connected loosely under the themes of public memory and the uses of identity in the past. We are thrilled to present to you three excellent articles in our Fall 2016 edition: The article "Dentro de la Revolución: Mobilizing the Artist in Alfredo Sosa Bravo's Libertad, Cultura, Igualdad (1961)" analyzes Cuban artwork as multi-layered work of propaganda whose conditions of creation, content, and exhibition reinforce a relationship of collaboration between artists and the state-run cultural institutions of post-revolutionary Cuba; moving through fifty years of history “’I Shall Never Forget’: The Civil War in American Historical Memory, 1863-1915" provides a captivating look at the role of reconciliationist and emancipationist intellectuals, politicians, and organizations as they contested and shaped the enduring memory of the Civil War; and finally, the article “Politics as Metis Ethnogenesis in Red River: Instrumental Ethnogenesis in the 1830s and 1840s in Red River” takes the reader through a historical analysis of the development of the Metis identity as a means to further their economic rights. We wholly hope you enjoy our Fall 2016 edition as much as our staff has enjoyed curating it. Editors  Jean Middleton and Emily Kaliel Assistant Editors Magie Aiken and Hannah Rudderham Senior Reviewers Emily Tran Connor Thompson Callum McDonald James Matiko Bronte Wells

Proctorship in Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 186-193
Author(s):  
Assad Zahid ◽  
Danilo Miskovic
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Colorectal Surgery ◽  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Specific Technique ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
The Past ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery ◽  
Teaching Programs

AbstractTeaching an established surgeon in a novel technique by a colleague who has acquired a level of expertise is often referred to as “proctoring” or “precepting.” Surgical preceptorships can be defined as supervised teaching programs, whereby individual or groups of surgeons (proctors) experienced in a certain technique support a colleague who wants to adopt this technique (sometimes referred to as “delegates” or “preceptees”). Preceptorship programs really focus on a specific technique, technology, or skill which is required to broaden, complement, or transform an established surgeon's practice.Within colorectal surgery, in the past 30 years, there is been an evolution of interventional options including open, laparoscopic, robotic, and endoscopic procedures. With each new emerging technology and technique, safe and effective uptake by established surgeons is best been attained by a period of proctorship by an experienced colleague. Formalizing this has been facilitated largely through industry support. There, however, remains a considerable chasm when it comes to standardization, quality control, and jurisprudence.This article aims to describe the requirements for a contemporary proctorship program, to examine instruments of quality control, and how to improve effectiveness.

The Management of Teaching in Online and Blended Learning Applied in the Project “Modern Competences of Academic Teachers – the Key to Modern Higher Education Institutions” – Acronym MOCAT

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-401
Author(s):  
Roxana Stefanescu ◽  
◽  
Mariana Iatagan ◽  
Cristian Uta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Teaching Competencies ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Academic Teachers ◽  
Academic Teacher

The management of teaching is connected and could be increased by using a wide range of different methods especially when we refer to Online and Blended learning. In the first part, the paper is aiming at reviewing the literature regarding the concepts and benefits of Online and Blended learning. Based on this considerations, 8 partner universities from 8 countries jointly developed the Project “Modern competences of academic teachers – the key to modern Higher Education Institutions (HEI)” – Acronym MOCAT. The paper underlines the goals and achievements of the MOCAT project that proposes a conceptual process to increase the management performance in teaching. The paper shows in an organized manner the main deficiencies that are altering the teaching competencies of academic teachers and in connection with this, the project offers solutions to improve the methodological competency of the teachers regarding the development and use of modern approaches. The outcomes of the project consist in the development and implementation of a Multicultural Model of an Academic Teacher Competencies and in 10 online courses that represent modern training materials in the field of teaching methodology. In the end are exposed the way the results of the project can be evaluated in time as well as the anticipated effects of the project implementation.

Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai

2022 ◽  
pp. 175069802110665
Author(s):  
Paul O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Coherent Body ◽  
Late Modern

Memory invariably involves sifting and sorting historical traces and reassembling them into societal representations of the past. Usually this has been done by social groups of different kinds or the cultural institutions associated with them, and has provided materials for the construction and maintenance of group identity. In what I term “spectacular memory,” however, the sifting and sorting of memory traces is performed by commercial and media institutions within a globalized cultural framework to create spectacles for mass consumption. Spectacular memory is enabled by the progressive breakdown of Halbwach’s “social frameworks of memory”—the association of memory with face-to-face relations within social groups. In late modern societies, “memory” as a coherent body of representations which is the property of more-or-less bounded social groups has largely devolved into a globalized store of representations curated and diffused through the media, advertising, tourism and entertainment industries. This article uses the example of the history-themed shopping malls of Dubai to characterize this form of memory.

scholarly journals Habent sua fata… ekslibris – informacje o ekslibrisach i ich kolekcjach w „Zbiorach polskich” Edwarda Chwalewika

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 258-272
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
The Past ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Source Materials

Edward Chwalewik (1873-1956) is a very important person for Polish culture. He worked many years with books and cultural products and he collected very precious source materials. One of the results of their elaboration is the publication “Polish collections: archives, libraries, offices, galleries, museums and other collections of memorabilia of the past in the homeland and exile” (1916, 1926-1927). The priceless publication is in many cases the only source of information about the once existed collections of cultural heritage. The author, collector and exlibris expert, also included information about provenances. In a few thousand descriptions of various cultural institutions and objects, including the library, recorded ca 300 entries about exlibris – collections and individual signs of books owners. The article presents characteristics of these data and selected examples.

scholarly journals Recirculating Aquaculture Technologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Espinal ◽  
Daniel Matulić
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Water Quality Control ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Control Processes ◽  
Recirculating Aquaculture ◽  
Recirculating Aquaculture Systems ◽  
Aquaculture Production

AbstractRecirculating aquaculture technology, which includes aquaponics, has been under development for the past 40 years from a combination of technologies derived from the wastewater treatment and aquaculture sectors. Until recently, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) farms have been relatively small compared with other types of modern aquaculture production. The last two decades have seen a significant increase in the development of this technology, with increased market acceptance and scale. This chapter provides a brief overview of the history, water quality control processes, new developments and ongoing challenges of RAS.

Quality Management in Textile through Noble Methodology and Six Sigma

2011 ◽  
Vol 332-334 ◽  
pp. 351-355
Author(s):  
Seyed Ehsan Hosseinipour ◽  
Mohamad Reza Ahmadzadeh ◽  
Bahareh Zanjirchi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Textile Industries ◽  
Textile Products

In recent decades, different concepts in quality management in textile industries have been introduced. Quality is a highly significant concept and also is the most basic challenge for textile industries. What we called controlling in the past, now has been replaced by “quality control”. Among these strategies, production and noble thought in order to recognize and remove not valuable resources on one hand, and six sigma in order to recognize and remove error elements in the process on the other hand, have developed the textile factories. Six sigma and noble methodology are two very strong strategies in for textile companies to reach success and have high quality products. Noble methodology causes a cut in the expenses through optimizing the process whereas six sigma is related to the customers’ expectations or needs. It also improves quality through measuring and controlling the deficits. This study is an attempt to improve textile products through two views: six sigma and noble methodology. Each of them this objective by its own .

Pharmaceutical Considerations of Nitroglycerin

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avraham Yacobi ◽  
Anton H. Amann ◽  
David M. Baaske
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Clinical Pharmacy ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Dosage Forms ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Pharmaceutical Uses

During the past few years, there have been rapid changes in the pharmaceutical uses of nitroglycerin. New dosage forms and new delivery systems have become available, which have resulted in potential confusion to all concerned with the proper use of these systems. The goal of this review is to prevent confusion and to bring all the relevant information together. The various analytical techniques available for quality control of the dosage forms and for the study of the pharmacokinetics are reviewed, with the intent of enabling the reader to identify pertinent references rapidly. The interaction of nitroglycerin with packaging and plastic delivery devices is also reviewed so that the reader can make informed choices. Finally, the clinical pharmacy and pharmacokinetics are reviewed so as to bring the reader up to date in that area. After reading this article, the areas of nitroglycerin research that still need to be explored should be apparent.

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