Title

Cowboys With Cameras: An Interactive Expedition

Abstract

Utilizing the same technologies pioneered by the embedded journalists in Iraq, the University of Central Florida (UCF) teamed up with TracStar, Inc to create a small-scale, satellite-based expedition transmission package to accompany a university film and digital media professor into parts of Utah and the Moab Desert that had a historical significance to American Western Films. The expedition took the group to many locations where scenes from John Wayne and John Ford movies were filmed. Students along on the trip camped out and suffered similar tough conditions as did the original film crews, experienced the wilderness, and participated in lectures and interviews with locals, who supported the films and acted as extras and stunt persons. The project brought a live experience back to the university campus in which students personally interact firsthand with the people, places, things in as real a manner as what the remote travelers encountered. This article presents details about the experiences of the first implementation of the live broadcasts from the remote desert and the reactions of focus groups to the experience. One group watched archived broadcast, convinced that they were live. Their impressions and reactions were recorded and analyzed and compared to those who were part of a control group. Conclusions and recommendations for future trips are introduced. © 2007 Becta.

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volume

40

Issue

1

Number of Pages

119-134

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00807.x

Socpus ID

58049146465 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/58049146465

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