This session will highlight the opportunities for using ebooks in education. We will provide an overview of the current ebook landscape, with a focus on looking at the benefits, implications of use and how to get started. The session will be of interest to anyone curious about the potential of ebooks, a technical background is not a requirement.
Guest speaker: Sue Burnett, Facilitation & Publishing — Blended Learning and iTunes U, University of Glamorgan
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Anyone who works in UK further education (FE) or higher education (HE) who would like help with digital media. If you are unsure how to create podcasts, need to improve your image capture, digitise that stack of VHS under your desk or need to use digital media for teaching and learning, then these sessions are for you.
Register for the upcoming session and we'll send you confirmation and links to join the session. On the day, once you have joined the session (allow approx 5mins), introduce yourself and then sit back and enjoy the session. You can ask us questions at any point using the text chat tool. You will need speakers to listen to us.
Below are previous sessions with topics covered, session recordings, notes and any resources used during the session.
Topics will include, planning, consent, location checking, scripting, how to get good results from low cost equipment, low or no-cost production, post production and encoding tools.
Facilitator Tim O’Riordan has over 25 years experience in Broadcast TV and Educational video production.
This session will introduce EdMediaShare by providing an overview of what the service aims to do.
View session detailsThe topics covered included: types of feedback, examples of uses, formats and delivery considerations
View session detailsIn this session we covered both instituion lecture capture tools and do-it-yourself setups
View session detailsTeaching and learning uses for screencasts
View session detailsTopics covered included: screen capture; screencasts; iTunes U; podcasts for learning
View session detailsTopics covered included: audio, or video and screen capture in VLEs
View session detailsTopics covered included: copyright and use of off-air recordings in VLEs; ERA and ERA plus licences; embedded image metadata; separating audio from video files.
View session detailsTopics covered included: colour management; video formats for online delivery; portable audio recorders and audio editing software; metadata migration
View session detailsTopics covered included: choosing a recording space
View session detailsTopics covered included: microphone technique; live webstreaming.
View session detailsTopics covered included: podcasting with GarageBand; permissions/consent requirements when photographing people; photography in public places; sources of free images for use in education
View session detailsTopics covered included: digital storage media and strategies - DVD-R and other optical media, hard drives, networked storage, online storage
View session detailsTopics covered included: webcasting; screen capture; video editing; presentation software; copyright issues; ERA licences.
View session detailsTopics covered included: video production and editing; backgrounds and lighting for photography; music copyright; storyboarding; copyright for screengrabs.
View session detailsTopics covered included: promoting your collection; recording audio for presentations; and reducing noise in audio recordings.
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