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Considering the delivery of digital media online

Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 30 September 2010
Tags: e-learning | news |

Image credit James Justin, found on Flickr, key word: delivery. Used under a Creative Commons licence

This document looks at some of the options for delivering digital media using the web as a delivery platform.

• JISC Advance - Digital Media and Copyright Seminar, London

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 29 September 2010
  Tags: copyright | event | news | training |

  Do you use images from the internet in PowerPoint? Are you struggling to get your head around the rights of your digital collection? Are you embarking on producing your own digital media resources? JISC Digital Media in association with JISC Legal is hosting a brand new JISC Advance - Digital Media and Copyright Seminar to help disseminate information in order to help you protect your resources and your institution.

• Viewing, using and producing digital media resources

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 29 September 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news |

  Introducing the third of ten advice documents: Common Methods for Viewing, Using and Producing Digital Media Resources

• Designing a learning experience

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 28 September 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news |

  The second of our ten new advice documents looks at Designing Learning Experiences.

• Ten new advice documents released

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 27 September 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news |

  Today sees the launch of the first of ten new advice documents from the JISC Digital Media team.

• YouTube cleared of copyright liability again

  Posted by Steve Hull on Friday 24 September 2010
  Tags: copyright | youtube |

  A Spanish court has re-affirmed the European ruling that YouTube is not responsible for any copyright infringement incurred by the posting of a video on its website.

• e-Learning: an introduction

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 20 September 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news |

  Coming soon - a fortnight where we will be releasing one new advice document a day!

• Playing with the Zumi

  Posted by Steve Hull on Wednesday 15 September 2010
  Tags: camcorder | cameras | equipment | inspiration | photography | video |

  I recently purchased a Zumi, properly known as the Digital Harinezumi 2++ and have been getting a lot of enjoyment out of it.

• Organising your images with Flickr

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 08 September 2010
  Tags: creative commons | delivery | digital collections | flickr | news | photo sharing | photographs |

  We've just released a freshly updated version of our advice document Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images.

• Finding free music online - SoundCloud’s new CC features

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 07 September 2010
  Tags: copyright | creative commons | finding audio | licensing | music |

  As mentioned in our new tutorial Internet for Audio Resources and our document Finding Video, Audio and Images Online, SoundCloud is a great resource for music that can be used in your institutional productions, and now finding music which you can use for free has become a lot easier.

• A Delicious for scholarly articles

  Posted by Steve Hull on Monday 06 September 2010
  Tags: web services |

  I just discovered CiteULike, a website for organising and sharing references to scholarly articles.

• NASA launches on Flickr

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 03 September 2010
  Tags: digital collections | finding images | flickr | photo sharing | photographs |

  This week NASA became the latest organisation to share its 'no known copyright restrictions' images via Flickr.

• New advice on accessibility issues for digital media

  Posted by Steve Hull on Wednesday 01 September 2010
  Tags: accessibility | news |

  JISC Digital Media has published a new advice document titled Basic Guide to Accessibility.