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Panoramic video on your phone

Posted by Karla Youngs on Tuesday 28 June 2011
Tags: video |

A clever little gizmo known only as the Dot, which attaches to the iPhone 4, enables the phone to capture a single 'wrapped' 360° video file which the accompanying app will reformat into a fully user navigable 'surround' video panorama. This, the makers suggest, is among other things an ideal tool for documenting educational group sessions, workshops etc. While this kind of functionality has been available for a while - including from the Lucy system, by Dot's designers Kogeto - this is the first time we've seen it on a mobile phone.

Using a small convex mirror mounted above the lens, users can capture a kind of 'fisheye' video; the app then stretches and squeezes a section of this image to provide a more'normal' looking image, which can be panned around at will. Sounds confusing? The promo video explains all:

• How do light meter Apps measure up?

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 27 June 2011
  Tags: equipment | hardware | photography |

  I know a few photographers who can quite accurately predict the correct exposure to use under a variety of challenging lighting situations, most of us however require a little help from a light meter.

• MEL SiG - Promoting Media Enhanced Learning in HE and FE

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 23 June 2011
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  Members of JISC Digital Media are affiliated with a wide range of bodies, special interest groups and projects. One group, which are hosting another free event later this week at the University of Glamorgan, is the Media Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (or MEL SiG, for short),which this blog post provides a brief introduction to.

• Online Reading Rooms?

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 21 June 2011
  Tags: analogue collections | digital collections | digitisation | news |

  The British Library has annouced plans to work with Google to digitise and make available thousands of texts dating back to the 18th century.

   

• Initial thoughts on Avid Studio

  Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Tuesday 21 June 2011
  Tags: editing | video |

  Avid Technology has recently promoted the launch of its new consumer-oriented video editing application - Avid Studio. As a long time Avid enthusiast, I was at first excited by the announcement, and then disappointed - but have since come round to what looks like an impressive contender.

• Samson Meteor USB microphone

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 20 June 2011
  Tags: audio | microphones |

  First impressions of the Samson Meteor USB microphone

• Turbo charged - Turbo T.E.L. ‘11

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Thursday 16 June 2011
  Tags: e-learning | event | microphones | presentations | screencast | vle | moodle |

  Storify summary and aggregation of yesterday's brilliant Turbo T.E.L. - Technology Enhanced Learning event in Bristol

  A day of lightning talks on a huge range of e-learning related subjects organised by RSC South West. Very successful, informative and fun, and hopefully the first of many such events!

   

   

• Four interesting studies about using video

  Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Monday 13 June 2011
  Tags: e-learning | finding moving images | teaching | usability | video | youtube |

  I have been looking through recent studies published online and have found some interesting papers. My criteria for selection are studies that have been published since 1 January 2011, that explore developments in technology, and that discuss the use of video in learning and research.

• Building fluid images

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 09 June 2011
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  Anybody who has the task of creating webpages that use images and video should find Ethan Marcotte's Alistpart article 'Fluid images' a revelation.

• Microphone recommendations

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 08 June 2011
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  After picking up a follower's question on Twitter about microphone suggestions, here is our answer in full.

• Turbo T.E.L.

  Posted by Karla Youngs on Tuesday 07 June 2011
  Tags: e-learning | news | screencast | teaching |

  Upcoming Technology Enhanced Learning event organised by RSC South-West

   

   

   

   

   

• YouTube editor meets Creative Commons

  Posted by Steve Hull on Friday 03 June 2011
  Tags: creative commons | licensing | video | youtube |

  It is now easy to assign a Creative Commons licence to videos you upload or edit on YouTube.

• Tips, tricks and resources #4

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 02 June 2011
  Tags: tips |

  These tips, tricks and resources will help you learn new things, find helpful resources and make you more productive.