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NEW - ‘Creating an Audio Podcast’

Posted by Karla Youngs on Thursday 30 April 2009
Tags: e-learning | news | podcasts |

Creating an Audio Podcast - everything you need to know to get started with podcast audio for teaching and learning on your PC or Mac.

• Real life in miniature: tilt-shift video

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 30 April 2009
  Tags: photography | tilt-shift | time-lapse | video |

  A great piece of timelapse/tilt-shift video.

• April training update

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 23 April 2009
  Tags: news | training |

  Due to high levels of demand JISC Digital Media is putting on an additional course for Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts on the 3rd June.

• JISC Digital Media goes analogue

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 21 April 2009
  Tags: flickr | photographs | photography | pinhole | printing |

  Yesterday lunchtime a few of us got back to basics learning a little more about pinhole photography.

• Analogue isn’t dead yet…

  Posted by Steve Hull on Friday 17 April 2009
  Tags: analogue collections | music | sound recordings |

  The Tape Project is releaseing a series of recordings on 1/4 inch, reel-to-reel, 15 ips, half track, analogue tape.

• Gonna get myself connected

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 17 April 2009
  Tags: analogue collections | conversion | news | sound recordings | video |

  

• Free loudness optimiser for spoken word

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Thursday 16 April 2009
  Tags: audio editing | podcasts | software | sound recordings |

  From the Conversations Network, a free and incredibly simple tool for maximising the perceived volume of your recordings, and compensating for differences in voice levels in a recorded seminar, workshop or interview.

• Tip - Silence the phones

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 16 April 2009
  Tags: e-learning | sound recordings | tips | workflow |

  You're on a roll, you're recording your best piece of audio ever..... and then one of your phones in the room rings, throwing you completely off. Although it seems obvious, you would be surprised at how easy it is to ruin a recording by being thrown off due to the phone ringing.  Remember to turn off/silence/unplug your phones when recording. More recently this also applies to computer noises such as twitter/facebook alerts. If you hear the Microsoft Windows shutting down sound then you have probably lost your recording anyway! If you have any tips yourself, please do add them to the comments.

• Spare places on Finding Free Images course

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 15 April 2009
  Tags: finding images | news | teaching | training |

  Following a cancellation, we now have two spare places on next week's training course.

• Naught-to-Digital Media in Five Seconds: A Greener OS

  Posted by Stephen Gray on Wednesday 08 April 2009
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  ASUS have released a new generation of motherboards with ‘instant on' Splashtop feature. The user has the choice: wait for the full OS to load (Windows XP for example) or dive straight into photo management or web browsing in less than 5 seconds. Although only suited to basic tasks, a fully functional OS at you fingertips would seem to have its uses. Splashtop is a built in Linux-based operating environment and is being promoted as a green alternative: no boot up time = less energy consumed. Are immense electricity bills a necessary evil of digital media or should green issues always come first?

   

• Pedagogical Uses of Presentation Software

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 08 April 2009
  Tags: e-learning | news |

  We are pleased to announce a new advice document called Pedagogical Uses of Presentation Software which covers how to improve your PowerPoint/Keynote/Open Office presentaion files. If you have any suggestions for inclusions or would like to point to out your own examples please leave a comment.

• Flip launches an HD camera

  Posted by Steve Hull on Wednesday 08 April 2009
  Tags: cameras | hardware | podcasts | video | youtube |

  Flip has just announced the UK release of the MinoHD which, as you might guess, is an HD version of the Flip video camera.

• Audio blogging on the move

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 03 April 2009
  Tags: mobile | podcasts | software | sound recordings |

  A new 'audio blogging' service has launched which might be worth keeping an eye on.