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Weekly links 16th December 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 16 December 2011
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

 

• Making better videos: shooting your video
  Our 2/3 free online surgery was held this week and the recording and resources are now available.
• Video Production - lecture capture
  A guide to setting up video and audio for lecture capture. Viewers are asked to reflect on camera positioning, framing, sound recording and safety.
• jiscPUB report: Digital publishing landscape, exemplars and recommendations
  The paper provides background on the state of ebook publishing today, and concludes with a set of recommended projects that aim to improve digital scholarly publishing in the UK.
• Developing Digital Literacies: final JISC national workshop
  A free workshop from the JISC e-Learning Programme on developing digital literacies is taking place on 22nd February 2012 in Edinburgh.
• Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews
  A 7min video demonstrating various lighting techniques
• The pirates of YouTube
  Cory Doctorow Guardian piece on how companies are pirating Youtube videos
• Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now
  Interesting article from the creator of the widely used JW Player for embedding video on why we encode how we do
• JISC Netskills Workshop News
  Spring programme is now online and open for bookings

Image credit: cherries / Jessica Lucia  / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

• Webinar Wednesday on video production

  Posted by Steve Hull on Monday 12 December 2011
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  On Wednesday 14 December at 1:00 pm, JISC Digital Media will run the second in its series of three live, free, online one-hour webinars on video creation.

• Weekly links 9th December 2011

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 09 December 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'

• How Green is Your Digitisation?

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 06 December 2011
  Tags: news |

  As digitisers we often talk about the sustainability of our digital resources from an economic and technical point of view: maintaining access to our valuable and treasured digital resources for the longer term.

  But what about environmental sustainability?  Do we know as the creators, users and preservers of digital resources what impact digitisation has on the environment? 

  A new article released today by JISC Digital Media looks at these very questions in "Digitisation and the environment".

   

• Using medical recordings an online guide

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 05 December 2011
  Tags: e-learning | finding audio | finding images | finding moving images | news | standards |

  New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings for learning and teaching has been launched today as the output from a great collaboration project funded through JISC's Strategic and Content Allience and is hosted here on the JISC Digital Media website at Making and Using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching.

   

• Weekly links 2nd December 2011

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 02 December 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'