All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'finding images'
Still images advice tagged 'finding images'
Using Blogs to Find and Organise Images
Blogs tend to be text-based but they often also include images. This advice document provides an overview of blogs, considering how they can be used as both sources of images and as tools for managing and presenting your own images.
Read full advice document...Using Wikis to Find and Organise Images
Wikis are websites that allow groups of users to collaborate on content creation. Although largely text-based, they can include images. This document looks at ways in which you might use wikis as a source of images for use in your own work. It also provides an overview of how wikis handle images for those who already use or are thinking of setting up a wiki.
Read full advice document...Photo Sharing Sites
This advice document looks at the most common features offered by a number of photo sharing sites, highlights the pros and cons of using such sites, and offers some practical tips for both finding images and organising your own images.
Read full advice document...Finding Images on Flickr
This document looks at the pros and cons of using the photo sharing site Flickr as a source of images.
Read full advice document...Can I Use Images Found on the Internet?
Answers to some frequently asked questions about using images downloaded from the web.
Read full advice document...Useful Books, Magazines and Online Publications for Digital Imaging
This is a list of books, papers, magazines, journals, online publications and mailing lists that JISC Digital Media thinks are useful to keep up to date with developments in digital imaging.
Read full advice document...Review of Image Search Engines
This is the fourth JISC Digital Media review of image search engines In addition to this review, we have published reviews of moving image and audio search engines.
Read full advice document...Case Study: History of Art, University College Cork
This short case study looks at how the newly established History of Art department at University College Cork went about building a collection of images to support its teaching. Although it would have preferred to create an all-digital collection, the constraints of time, money and copyright led the department to take a hybrid approach, using a mix of formats, drawn from several different sources.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'finding images'
Finding Subject-Specific Digital Media Resources
There are a multitude of websites providing access to a wide range of digital media resources (images, video and audio) covering many subject areas. This can be very bewildering if you are searching for specific resources to use in the lecture/classroom or for inclusion in a VLE (virtual learning environment). The purpose of this document is to provide a subject-specific guide to finding digital media resources with links to a number of useful websites.
Read full advice document...Finding Video, Audio and Images Online
There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it’s not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.
Read full advice document...Overview of JISC Digital Materials for those using Digital Media in Teaching and Research
This guide provides an overview of the JISC Digital Media website we think those staff wishing to use digital images within teaching and research materials will find useful.
Read full advice document...Graphical User Interface Design: Developing Usable and Accessible Collections
This paper looks at the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a digital collection. It takes a general view of facilitating effective access to a digital resource and then examines more closely the issues of usability and then accessibility. It is intended to be of use to collection managers wishing to grant access to a digital resource.
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Blog entries tagged 'finding images'
New online tutorials on finding video and audio resources
JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite (VTS) have launched two new online tutorials: Internet for Audio Resources and Internet for Video and Moving Images.
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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