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New date for copyright seminar

Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 27 October 2010
Tags: copyright | event | news | training |

Bringing together experts in digital media and copyright law this seminar created by the JISC Advance services, JISC Digital Media and JISC Legal, uses common real-world scenarios to focus on how copyright impacts on the use of digital media. The seminar will allow participants to gain an understanding of the common issues and challenges facing institutions in the current copyright landscape.

Following the sell-out London date, we are pleased to announce a new date and location: Thursday 2nd December 2010 at Taunton Rugby Club, Hyde Park, Taunton, Somerset.

To find out more and book a place please see JISC Advance - Digital Media and Copyright Seminar.

Image by opensourceway on Flickr - used under a Creative Commons licence

• New advice on the video enabled digital SLR

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 20 October 2010
  Tags: camcorder | cameras | equipment | hardware | news | photography | video |

  Video capture is an increasingly common feature in today's digital SLR cameras. While the controls are crude compared to those of a dedicated camcorder the video output has a cinematic look popular with many filmmakers.

• Blow up photographic studio

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 19 October 2010
  Tags: lighting | photography |

  Not the location for Antonioni's 1966 film 'Blowup' but a 20 foot long inflatable photographic studio.

• Mixed media by the RSA

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 18 October 2010
  Tags: animated graphics | animation | inspiration | video | youtube |

  Over the weekend I came across the video below, 'Changing Education Paradigms', that uses mixed media (digital video and live drawing) to produce visuals to support an audio talk. In this case, the drawings work to excellent effect for keeping my attention longer than I normally would.

• Using digital media in PDFs

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 08 October 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news |

  Our tenth and final document in the new series is on Using Multimedia in a PDF.

• Telling it like it is - a how-to guide on creating audio feedback

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 07 October 2010
  Tags: audio | news | sound recordings |

  Following on from the release of our document Audio Feedback, this accompanying paper Audio Feedback - A How-To Guide provides a step-by step guide on creating and embedding digital audio files for delivering as audio feedback.

• Free books online

  Posted by Steve Hull on Wednesday 06 October 2010
  Tags: digital collections |

  Most people have heard of one or two sites that provide free books for reading on the web, but EduChoices has come up with a list of 25 of them.

• Just say the word…

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 06 October 2010
  Tags: news | sound recordings | teaching |

  Audio Feedback is the eighth advice document in our series of ten. It provides an introductory guide to using digital audio files as a method of communicating feedback to students alongside, or as a replacement to traditional text based feedback.

• Sounding safe? How digital recordings are more at risk than your 78s

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 05 October 2010
  Tags: digital preservation | sound recordings |

  A new study released by the Library of Congress casts shadows on ignoring the issues of preservation in sound archives, stating that digital technology alone cannot be relied on to preserve sound recordings for the future.

• Providing live support to your community over the web

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 05 October 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news | web services |

  Providing Live Support to your Community over the Web is our seventh in the new series of ten advice documents.

• Introducing mobile learning

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 04 October 2010
  Tags: mobile | news |

  This document introduces the subject of Mobile Learning for Education purposes.

• Considerations for organising digital media in a VLE

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 01 October 2010
  Tags: e-learning | news | vle |

  The fifth of ten new advice documents highlights the major considerations needed when managing still images, video and audio within a virtual learning environment (VLE) and looks at practical solutions to help ensure you do this effectively. Organising Digital Media Content in a VLE