Presented by Carole Drury, College Director and Dan Hodge, Lecturer in Digital Media, from Kendal College. This webinar will be of particular interest to practitioners and Teaching and Learning Curriculum Managers though others will find it useful.

Wednesday 19 December 14.00-14.30

Overview

With a shortage of good quality learning materials available for plumbing students, Kendal College has developed new materials using Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Find out more about how they did it, the difference it has made to their plumbing students and how the College is developing these materials for other subjects. This project has been funded by the JISC Advance Further Education and Skills (FES) Development and Resources Programme.

What you will take away from the session

• Identify learning objectives that can benefit from the introduction of Augmented Reality linked to relevant areas of the curriculum
• Establish a protocol for the development of the skills "segments" that will form part of the Augmented Reality sequences
• Use tablets to refine and implement technology for learners by a specially selected pilot group and then integrated into other student communities
• Engage your College students to develop and pilot 'raw materials'
• Produce and implement an impact survey of the pilot materials to inform further development of the technology
• Access the materials for use in your own work and different contexts.

To book your free place email stacey.bennett@jiscadvance.ac.uk

Discover more about this project here.

The FES programme is funding 32 projects operating in a large variety of professional contexts, across Offender Learning, Work Based Learning, Community Learning, Further Education, Specialist Provision and more. The projects focus on a wide range of different technologies and their applications, including Mobile Learning, Audio feedback, the use of Student Owned Devices, Remote (and automated) assessment and many others.

This guide brings together examples of real-world uses of audio across the sector and points you to further information for making your own materials.

We hope you enjoy this guide and if you have any helpful examples for us to add then please get in touch.

Amy provides administrative support to the JISC Digital Media team, her responsibilities ranging from maintaining the 'helpdesk' service, booking travel and accommodation, purchasing equipment to organising training; taking delegate bookings, ordering catering, printing course materials, invoicing and sending joining information to delegates.

Working alongside her colleagues Amy is not only benefiting from their experience, gaining job specific skills, but she is also attending college on a weekly basis where she is undertaking a Level 3 NVQ in Business Administration.

Amy Bryant - the JISC Digital Media Apprentice

Amy said "the team have been welcoming from the start of my Apprenticeship… they are happy to share their experiences and knowledge which I really appreciate, I feel as though I've learnt quite a lot!  When I first started with the team, words such as 'metadata' and 'screencast' didn't mean anything to me but they do now!"

"I've been given the chance to use equipment and 'have a go' at things that I've never done before.  The experience I will have gained by the end of my year with JISC Digital Media will be invaluable and I believe having this Apprenticeship on my CV will certainly impress any future employer.  I'm really enjoying my time here and I'm glad I've had the chance to get to know the team; I have a lot of respect for them.

And what is the best part of working with the JISC Digital Media team?  "No day is the same – I love the variety of work I am doing and have really enjoyed getting to know the team…oh and Monday tends to be 'cake' day!"

JISC Digital Media Director, Karla Youngs says, "Amy, has rapidly gained a good understanding of our service and provided a great deal of support to both myself and the team, she has in the words of the Apprenticeships organisation been 'good for our business.'"  

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".

Photo Credit: JISC

The article examines the literature and research already available  on the subject of Green ICT to establish just exactly what the environmental implications are for those involved in digitisation.  It looks at Government policy on carbon reductions; the scope for digitisation to reduce emissions by lessening our dependence on carbon intensive products and activities like travel and use of paper; and goes on to assess the green implications of an ever increasing quantity of digital data created for learning, teaching and research.

The article argues that as digitisers we have a responsibility to involve Green issues in our discourse and to adapt our digitisation methods, processes and workflows to maximise the possibility of an environmentally sustainable future for digitisation.

The article was launched at the first ever national webinar on Green issues, hosted by the JISC RSC  London on the 5^th of December 2011.  A download of the conference, where you can hear the paper being introduced, will be available from their website shortly.

Read "Digitisation and the Environment".

Clinical images, videos and other recordings are vital to good teaching and learning within the health care professions. Increasingly these are originated outside the institution that wishes to use them. This raises a number of legal, ethical and other issues relating to their re-use and this new online guide has been created to ensure that guidance on good practice is easily accessible in the community.

The materials have been created by a collaboration of cross-sector organisations and individuals, including the General Medical Council (GMC), Wellcome Trust, Institute for Medical Illustrators, University of Bristol and  Newcastle University.

The materials aim to help users of clinical healthcare recordings to:

• Understand how to deal with consent issues in using recordings of patients in learning and teaching resources;
• Understand the difference between copyright ownership and licencing and how to use resources shared under licence;
• Demonstrate best practice in ‘digital professionalism’ and manage risks when creating sustainable teaching resources;
• Be better placed to share resources with colleagues.

The guidance is aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording for learning and teaching.  It will also be of interest and use to other clinical and healthcare workers as well as to university staff where patient recordings are being made available for learning and teaching.   

The new advice and guidance materials were launched at a workshop in London at the Wellcome Trust, which will be followed by a free lecture from Sir Donald Irvine on the importance of patient centred medical education.

The advice and guidance materials will be available online from today, visit Making and Using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching.

The first in the series is The Little Guide to Finding Digital Media Resources (PDF). 

The second in the series is The Little Guide to Copyright (PDF).

The third in the series is The Little Guide to Cloud Computing (PDF).

The fourth in the series is The Little Guide to Podcasting (PDF).

The fifth in the series is The Little Guide to Screencasting (PDF).

We hope you like it and if you would like to suggest a 'Little Guide' subject area, or have a query, please contact us via the comments below, our Helpdesk Service or call 0117 331 4447.

Our first case study looks at how we assisted the University of Bristol's Education Support Unit (ESU) to create a set of screencast user guides and FAQs which would help orientate users to a new version of Blackboard the University's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), and supplement their existing written guides and Helpdesk service.

Photo credit: Zak and Tim during the live web session

Earlier today we ran a 30min web session to introduce EdMediaShare, a new JISC Digital Media web service:

• View videos that are linked to pedagogic use and subject
• Allows the community to share videos
• Chosen by educators for you
• Collects videos from around the web such as YouTube and vimeo

The recording from the session will be made available later this week.

So please head over to EdMediaShare and give it a try - feedback is very much encouraged to either myself or Tim.

If you use video under specific contexts please consider using the 'SHARE' feature so others can also use the videos.

The British Library will be making some 250,000 out of copyright works available free of charge via the Library and Google websites. Google will cover the costs of digitisation.

Dame Lynne Brindley, British Library chief executive, regards the project as an expansion of the Library’s role in providing access to knowledge. She says ‘Our aim is to provide perpetual access to this historical material, and we hope that our collections coupled with Google’s know-how will enable us to achieve this aim.'

Does this signal the end of the Bristish Library Reading Room? Well, probably not for the foreseeable future. While a quarter of a million works will be made available let us not forget that the British Library collection totals more than 150 million items.

Next week on Weds the 15th of June the JISC Regional Support Centre for the South-West is putting on a free event in Bristol featuring lightning talks on a whole host of subjects relating to Technology Enhanced Learning (T.E.L.) - Turbo T.E.L.

I'll be giving two turbo talks - 6 minute infobarfs on Screencasting (6 minutes - 6 Quick Wins), and USB microphones, with the chance to discover what they do, how they work, discuss relative merits and get your hands on a couple of different mics. There should be the opportunity over the day to discuss many different aspects of technology in teaching and learning with a range of practitioners, enthusiasts and experts.

All sessions are free, and you can go to whichever take your fancy on the day, though you do need to book a place at the event itself (also free!) - but best be quick about it, last call for bookings just went out. Hopefully will see some of you there...