JISC Digital Media Blog

Weekly links 6th January 2012

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 06 January 2012 at 11:54am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• JISC TechDis Tuesdays
  TechDis Tuesdays are online fortnightly workshops that cover a short video conversation on a specific accessibility theme
• New technologies for e-learning in 2012 and a little beyond, Tony Bates
  Tony Bates looks at what is coming in 2012 "Keep running. The technology innovation treadmill grinds on with no sign of letting up."
• Recording student presentations using ReVIEW
  Loughborough University. Dr Dave Elder-Vass is a Lecturer in Sociology and a recent user of the ReVIEW automated lecture capture system. Here he describes his experiences and those of his students.
• Everything you need to know about buying a camera
  The verge continue to bring out great guides and this one on choosing a camera is worth a look

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Weekly links 16th December 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 16 December 2011 at 9:27am
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

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Weekly links 9th December 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 09 December 2011 at 9:30am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• JISC Regional Support Centres 
  The 12 sister services now have a new web home.
• Making and using clinical healthcare recordings
  This site contains guidance material aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording or patient data for learning and teaching.
• CMU Researchers One-Up Google Image Search And Photosynth With Visual Similarity Engine
  The researchers have determined an interesting way of comparing images.
• JISC e-learning programme webinars
  As part of the following JISC e-Learning programmes we shall be running several webinars that are free and open to interested parties:  Assessment and Feedback, Developing Digital Literacies,     Curriculum Design, Course Data,  OER
• Grading the Digital School: Online Learning, Personalized
  The NYtimes reports on the Khan Academy
• Living Books about Life
  The project will develop a sustainable series of co-edited, electronic open access books about life - with life understood both philosophically and biologically - which will provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences.
• Linking the physical to digital
  Steve Boneham from one of our sister services has posted about a recent session that included: QR codes, augmented reality and NFC.
   

Book now
Nex week we'll be running a FREE 1hr online session on guidance for shooting video - Wed 14th Dec at 1pm

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Weekly links 2nd December 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 02 December 2011 at 4:46pm
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• Call for proposals: Digital Infrastructure to Support Open Content for Education
  £10,000 - £25,000 per project
• Second in our new series of online surgeries [FREE]
  Making better videos: shooting your video - 14th Dec 2011 at 1pm
• EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio
  From European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.
• RSC South East advent
  Links to goodies and resources
• BBC Nature - video collections
  Lots of good footage that can be embedded in the VLE and on the web
   

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Weekly links 25th November 201

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 25 November 2011 at 2:37pm
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• ALT-C 2011 video sessions
  Keynote and invited speaker sessions from the 2011 ALT Conference, 6-8 September, 2011, Leeds.
• The Open Video Landscape
  90+ Web Sources You Might Have Missed
• OER Rapid Innovation Call: Preview
  A sneak peek at an opening funding call
• Dance archives
  DDA currently gives public access to five distinct collections from the National Resource Centre for Dance (NRCD), as well as Siobhan Davies RePlay (SDR).
   

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Weekly links 18th November 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 18 November 2011 at 9:41am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• Backup Your Flickr Images in Your Own Parallel Dimension
  In a nutshell Parallel-Flickr is a set of PHP scripts for backing up your Flickr photos and generating a database-backed website to display them.
• Advanced composition videos
  Dr. Cole Bennett’s ENGL 325: Advanced Comp students produced Literacies projects
• Why we needed EPUB 3
  An excerpt from 'What is EPUB 3' by O'Reilly
• The death of the PC?
  Dr Christine Sexton blogs about the growth of mobile devices may have a knock on effect for PC labs
• 7 compelling arguments for peer learning
  Donald Clark: I’ve been smitten by peer learning. The idea is to encourage learners to learn from each other. Compelling arguments?
• A World of Welsh Copper
  Interesting new web resource.

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Weekly links 11th November 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 11 November 2011 at 11:53am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• University Oxford Podcasts [resource]
  Oxford University has just relaunched its podcast site. They are providing OER podcasts under a Creative Commons licence, free for reuse and redistribution in education and research.
• RSC East Midlands newsletter
  Our sister service has launched an online version of the intouch newsletter, starting with a focus on mobile learning.
• UK told to increase digitisation investment
  The European Commission has called on the UK and other member states to step up efforts to digitise cultural objects through public-private partnerships and the adoption of national strategies.
• Open Attribute [tool]
  My personal favourite tool for grabbing and displaying creative License information.
• If Flickr had an ego
  Dave Winer suggesting that products/services could benefit with having an ego. Nice.

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Weekly picks 28th Oct 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 28 October 2011 at 8:30am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• 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
  I'll say no more
• 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.

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Weekly picks 21st Oct 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 21 October 2011 at 8:45am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• Screencast-O-Matic [tool]
  A free online screencast recorder that can export directly to Youtube. This tool may appease those of us who used the now defunct tool screentoaster. These online tools are great for basic screencast use so why not give it a whirl and let us know how you got on?
• Lecture capture? Harrowing! Scary!
  Clive Young from UCL reports on what sounded like an interesting webinar focusing on lecture capture.
• Podcast from JISC: Facing up to Facebook
  Listen to the recent podcast from JISC Legal about the implications surrounding social media and institution policy.
• Early Music Online [resource]
  Early Music Online is a pilot project in which 300 of the world’s earliest surviving volumes of printed music, held in the British Library, have been digitised and made freely available online.
• Maximising online resource effectiveness
  The reports, guides and case studies summarise the key principles in maximising your online effectiveness.

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Weekly picks 14th Oct 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 14 October 2011 at 9:00am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• Collections Trust Introductory Guides
  The Collections Trust have produced a series of PDF guides to introduce various offerings
• The Open Case by Steve Wheeler
  Steve questions the benefits of closed and open journals
• VideoJS
  Making it easier than ever to begin using the VIDEO element of HTML5 so that you don't have to rely on third-party plugins.
• MP3 Quickie
  An MP3 recorder for the Moodle VLE
• 101 Uses for Lecture Capture: #57 Pre-Arrival Advice
  Nice to see a different use for lecture capture and this 20min video elaborates further.
• SLR Camera simulator
  Found via Chris Brown, you change the camera settings and take a photo to see how different features alter the image
• janet Video conferencing user group event / 8th & 9th Dec 2011
  Join around 100 like minded individuals to discuss everything video conference related
• FOTE conference videos and slides
  Last weeks 1 day conference (attended by our Steve) now have the videos and slides available for all, enjoy.

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Weekly picks 7th Oct 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 07 October 2011 at 9:16am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• Adobe introduces Photoshop Touch
  Adobe has just announced a new version of Photoshop for tablets, starting with the Android operating system and followed by iOS. The cost should be under £10 and we'll give it a whirl asap.
• Upcoming RSC Wales events OCT/NOV
  Includes getting your email under control
• Data Monday: iPhone's Disproportionate Use
  Some great stats on iPhone usage including 2/3rds of Google's mobile search comes from Apple iOS devices.
• How to make an ebook
  A nice primer for anybody interested in making their own ebook from Smashing Magazine
• Podcast pre-labs for enhanced learning with Dr Roy Lowry
  It is always nice to see and hear about other peoples recording setup and Jason explains a recent session.
• EDUCAUSE Quarterly
  This time focusing on collaboration
• More features in JISC MediaHub
  Some new features have been rolled out in a bid to continue improvements to the service

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Weekly picks 30th Sept 2011

Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 30 September 2011 at 9:30am
Tags: Weekly Pickings |

• Let’s Get Real - How to Evaluate Online Success? [report]
  Culture24 has been working collaboratively on an action research project with a range of cultural sector organisations to help them define and measure their success online.
• fitvidsjs
  A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
• Using flip video to record design feedback visually
  A case study by Phil Henry
• The HTML5 Converter for Adobe® Captivate® 5.5
  An experimental technology that converts SWFs generated by Adobe Captivate 5.5 into HTML5
• Technology Horizons – e-Books and Accessibility
  Our sister service takes a look at e-books

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