All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'finding images'
Training courses tagged
BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days
The course would suit a candidate that requires a broad introduction to creating, editing using and managing a digital image collection. The skills covered could be used by anyone who is involved directly or indirectly in digitising or managing a collection of digital images. The skills in the course can be usefully employed in the education and cultural heritage sectors, or wherever a standard-based approach to image capture and delivery is required.
Read course description...Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching
Making and using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching contains guidance material aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording or patient data 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 made available for learning and teaching. Learn about the ethical principles that underpin the guidelines.
Read course description...Internet for Audio Resources
Internet Audio Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find audio resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources
Internet for Video and Moving Image Resources is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find video resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
Read course description...Internet for Image Searching
Internet for Image Searching - would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently?
Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills.
Read course description...Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course
This course is intended to instil basic competence in the many areas of knowledge that are needed to produce good video work. A hands-on approach is taken, such that during the two days of learning about video techniques the participants will actually produce two short videos. All equipment and facilities will be supplied.
Read course description...Introduction to Metadata
This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your digital collections, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Read course description...Managing Digital Media Collections
This one day course will offer a model of digital collection management, based upon open source solutions. Attendees will gain hands-on experience of planning, building, managing and delivering a digital media collection.
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Blog entries tagged 'finding images'
Turning a Resource into OER
The OER IPR Support project has released a very helpful 9 step video (5min) that guides you through the key considerations for making OER resources.
Read blog entry...Using medical recordings an online guide
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.
Read blog entry...New Google image feature
Google has just launched a new feature for image search.
Read blog entry...Mediahub: new video, image and sound resource on its way
This week I attended the RSCtv online presentation on the EDINA image and multimedia collections.
Read blog entry...NASA launches on Flickr
This week NASA became the latest organisation to share its 'no known copyright restrictions' images via Flickr.
Read blog entry...Online tutorials on finding still images, video and audio resources
JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite (VTS) have produced three online tutorials.
Read blog entry...Presentation slides on where to find images, video and audio
Here are the presentation slides from the session Sue and Ant gave on where to find images, video and audio at last week's RSC Wales event: Learning in a Digital Wales. #ldw2010
Read blog entry...Using images for educational purposes
We've just updated two advice documents on using images in education.
Read blog entry...Where to find video, images or sounds?
Our latest advice documents look at the most useful sites for finding digital media resources online.
Read blog entry...Free-to-use images from US National Archives
Another great selection of images is now available for all to use without restriction via Flickr.
Read blog entry...Free workshop on finding free images
Our training coordinator Dave Kilbey will be running a short workshop on Finding Free Images Online at next week's RSC Northern event: The North East's Got Talent: A Showcase for Best Practice in e-Learning.
Read blog entry...Find me an image that looks like this one
UPDATE: The day after we posted this, GazoPa announced that it is now in open beta - available to the public without login. GazoPa is a new 'similar image search' service that finds images based on the visual content of any image you supply.
Read blog entry...Blogs, wikis and photo sharing sites
We've just released three newly updated documents in the Still images advice section.
Read blog entry...Microsoft’s new visual search engine
Microsoft have introduced a new 'visual search' option to their Bing search engine.
Read blog entry...Flickr’s new search results page
The new layout for Flickr search results is now live.
Read blog entry...New digital restoration course among autumn training dates
The keen-eyed among you will have already noticed we have just released details of our new training programme for September to December.
Read blog entry...Newly updated Flickr advice
We've just released a completely updated advice document on using Flickr to find images.
Read blog entry...Free-to-use historic photos via Flickr
In the 16 months since Flickr launched The Commons, the photo sharing site's partnership with publicly-held photography collections has seen close to 30 institutions signing up.
Read blog entry...Free webcast on digital copyright
Steve will be giving a short talk as part of JISC Legal's free live webcast this afternoon.
Read blog entry...Video, image and audio resources
We've just released a new advice document: Links to Video, Image and Audio Resources.
Read blog entry...Spare places on Finding Free Images course
Following a cancellation, we now have two spare places on next week's training course.
Read blog entry...Web photos may never look the same again…
A new service that overlays 'product information' hotpoints on web images has launched.
Read blog entry...Launch of Europeana, the European online library
There’s a nice news post about it on the BBC website.
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Training courses
- BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days 17 June 2013
- Video Production: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course 24 June 2013
- Introduction to Metadata 17 July 2013
- Managing Digital Media Collections 10 October 2013
