JISC Digital Media Blog Archive
November 2009

Five new training courses for 2010

Posted by Dave Kilbey on Tuesday 24 November 2009 at 9:48am
Tags: news | staff training | training

We’re very pleased to announce our training programme for January to April 2010… and we have no fewer than five brand new courses in the schedule!

Photo from Musée McCord Museum on Flickr: The Commons - No known copyright restrictions

The new courses are:

• Digitising Analogue Audio
• Digital Media Restoration
• Digitising Grooved Discs and Open Reel Media
• Managing Digital Media Collections
• Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course

To see the full programme of courses please visit our Training page.

Jon Moore is JISC Digital Media’s new service manager

Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 23 November 2009 at 12:14pm
Tags: news

Jon Moore has recently joined the JISC Digital Media team as Service Manager.

Commencing his career in traditional print, Jon progressed to magazine publishing production at Future Plc in the early nineties. One of the early pioneers in the area of production, digitisation and colour management of still images in print, he later broadened his expertise into content management, metadata and workflow while managing service delivery and a diverse technical team. After a successful 16 years at Future and prior to joining JISC Digital Media as the Service Manager, Jon founded a tourism based video broadcast business (City TV).

Video Assist deadline is looming

Posted by Steve Hull on Monday 16 November 2009 at 2:04pm
Tags: news | staff training | video

The deadline to apply for the next round of Video Assist consultation is less than two weeks away.

Video Assist is JISC Digital Media’s new scheme for bespoke consultation in the area of video production.  Two FE or HE institutions are selected each term to receive 4 days’ worth of consulting on a specific project that they propose.  Applications (MS Word doc) for the next round of Video Assist must be received by Friday the 27th of November.  Successful applicants will be informed by the 18th of December and will receive their Video Assist consulting from the 4th of January to the 26th of March.

Digital preservation cartoon strikes again

Posted by Antony Theobald on Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 4:12pm
Tags: animation | digital preservation | migration | youtube

Hot on the heels of their second adventure, Team Digital Preservation are back!

This is the third cartoon in a series from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) - watch them all on DPE’s YouTube channel.

Free workshop on finding free images

Posted by Antony Theobald on Friday 06 November 2009 at 12:51pm
Tags: event | finding images | news

Our training coordinator Dave Kilbey will be running a short workshop on Finding Free Images Online at next week’s RSC Northern event: The North East’s Got Talent: A Showcase for Best Practice in e-Learning.

We will also have a stand within the exhibtion area, so if you are at the event do come and say hello. The other JISC Advance services will also be exhibiting.

Photo by Ninja M on Flickr - used under a Creative Commons licence

JISC Legal webcast TODAY

Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 05 November 2009 at 11:18am
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At 1400 today JISC Legal, one of our sister services is hosting an online webcast.

From the website: “This webcast aims to highlight and clarify relevant legal issues pertaining to the creation and dissemination of Open Educational Resources. We will offer a combination of presentations and question and answer sessions with a view to providing practical and helpful guidance for institutions involved in OER work. Presenters include Naomi Korn, one of JISC’s IP consultants, who will be discussing Creative Commons licences and their application to OER projects.”

Visit the webcast