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 producing or managing a collection of digital images. The skills in the course can be used in education, cultural heritage and other roles, which requires image capture and delivery.
Read course description...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 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 is a free online tutorial to help you learn how to use the Internet to find video resources for your work quickly and efficiently.
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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.
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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...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...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.
Read course description...First impressions of the Samson Meteor USB microphone
Read blog entry...Storify summary and aggregation of yesterday's brilliant Turbo T.E.L. - Technology Enhanced Learning event in Bristol
A day of lightning talks on a huge range of e-learning related subjects organised by RSC South West. Very successful, informative and fun, and hopefully the first of many such events!
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...use your mic wisely.
Read blog entry...Tuesday the 7th of December 2010 sees JISC Digital Media launch the 12 Days of JISC Digital Media Christmas, a very lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek series of videos.
Read blog entry...A new advice document focussing on microphones which connect directly to computer via USB.
Read blog entry...A new guide to the different types of Portable Digital Audio Recorders, from digital dictaphones to professional field recorders.
Read blog entry...Setting up multiple USB microphones for multi-channel recording.
Read blog entry...First experiences of the new Samson Go Mic, a miniature USB microphone with built-in audio interface.
Read blog entry...Here at JISC Digital Media we've made a very brief (79 second) video to compare the Kodak Zi8 and Flip Ultra pocket camcorders with the considerably more sophisticated (and considerably more expensive) Sony Z5.
Read blog entry...Screencasting Workflow gives a detailed overview of the workflow for creating screencasts - videos of computer screen activity with voice narration and additional content.
Read blog entry...Our latest advice document is a Basic Guide to Field Video Recording.
Read blog entry...An overview of acoustic treatment methods and materials, and advice on identifying and meeting the acoustic needs of your room.
Read blog entry...A new JISC Digital Media screencast offering advice on microphone technique and choice for voice-over. Recorded for today's online surgery.
Read blog entry...Three new advice documents designed to assist you in choosing an audio interface for your computer system.
Read blog entry...New entry-level audio interface from industry heavyweights Apogee, aimed squarely at the podcaster, but boasting quality suitable for serious music usage.
Read blog entry...Steve Hull, one of JISC Digital Media's Technical Support Officers for moving images, gave a talk at this year's DIVERSE conference in Aberystwyth on the 25th of June.
Read blog entry...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...First impressions of the Voice Memo function in the new v3.0 iPhone software and comparison with an equivalent existing utility.
Read blog entry...A new video document has just been published. The Basic Guide to Videoing Groups is a basic guide to -- well, to videoing groups.
Read blog entry...It is exactly one month until the launch of the JISC Digital Media Audio Workshops, which kicks off with Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts.

As an accompanying piece to my installation next week of Steve Reich's Pendulum Music, I've been asked to provide an ambient sound bed, which will play between the 'performances' of the Pendulum Music which take place over the course of a week.
Read blog entry...As 5.1 surround sound finally enters the mainstream, with the ready availability of affordable consumer systems, the need for the ability to record audio in three dimensions has become pressing. Surround sound can lend an atmosphere to a recording where mere stereo (or, god forbid, mono) will struggle. However, surround recording has thus-far been an esoteric and technically (not to mention financially) challenging business.
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