Weekly picks 28th Oct 2011
Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 28 October 2011
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Weekly Pickings |
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Photoshop express editor [tool]
Free and simple online image editor that doe's the job for most people - hit the get started button and have a try -
Freestudio media converter review [tool]
Jason Truscott has written a nice review of this video/image converter that is worth reading before trying. -
Links for the origins of podcasting
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Producing better audio for mobile - Gareth Jones
In this 5min video Gareth provides some handy tips for getting the best from mobile for audio -
Generate step-by-step tutorials for Photoshop
Adobe have created "Tutotial Builder" which allows you to build tutorials from within Photoshop. This sounds quite interesting and if you get a chance to have a play please do let us know how you got on. -
Podcasting is (still) dying
Dr Alan Cann questions if using podcasting is dying or if he is "just a bit jaded?". I left my comment in response.
Image credit: cherries / Jessica Lucia / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Joint Event with DPC - Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation
Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 25 October 2011
Tags:We are very pleased to annouce a day long event in collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition in tackling current and upcoming trends in digital preservation and how issues of Intellectual Property Rights affect these.
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EdMediaShare Boosts Views
Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Tuesday 25 October 2011
Tags: digital collections | e-learning | video |As www.edmediashare.org enters its fourth week, higher than expected view rates demonstrate the potential for the new web service.
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Launch of our BTEC Professional Certificate course in Digital Imaging
Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 21 October 2011
Tags:From the 21st to the 23rd of November we are launching our new BTEC accredited course in Digital Imaging for the introductory price of £850 for the three days, this is more than 20% discount off the normal rate of £1,100.
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Weekly picks 21st Oct 2011
Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 21 October 2011
Tags: Weekly Pickings |These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
Previous 'Weekly pickings'
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Audio recording on Android
Posted by Karla Youngs on Thursday 20 October 2011
Tags: audio | mobile | open source |Following a little research into audio recording on an Android device, a couple of observations...
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Institute of Physics - Audio Production
Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 19 October 2011
Tags:This is a podcast we produced for the Institute of Physics.
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OU Pretty Things
Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 17 October 2011
Tags: e-learning | mobile |Figures show Open University's iTunes U success driven by mobile learning and iOS.
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Weekly picks 14th Oct 2011
Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 14 October 2011
Tags: Weekly Pickings |These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
Previous 'Weekly pickings'
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Weekly picks 7th Oct 2011
Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 07 October 2011
Tags: Weekly Pickings |These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
Previous 'Weekly pickings'
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My Moodle - the official iPhone Moodle app
Posted by Karla Youngs on Monday 03 October 2011
Tags: e-learning | mobile | sound recordings | vle | moodle |The new official Moodle app for iPhone offers some very interesting media capture and embedding functions, and many other features for accessing and uploading to Moodle on the move...
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EdMediaShare now live
Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 03 October 2011
Tags: news | online surgery | podcasts |Today we are happy to announce the launch of our new project EdMediaShare, a place to share and find educational video.


