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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
Flickr revamps its service
As part of a redesign by its owners Yahoo to keep up with competition from other sites such as Instagram, Flickr are offering the ability to post longer video clips than previously, as well as higher resolution photographs.
Read blog entry...New case study highlights improvements in using online archive content
Our latest case study (Using Newsfilm on JISC MediaHub) on the use of archive newsfilm in learning, teaching and research at the University of Manchester and Leeds Trinity University, published today, coincides with important announcements from EDINA and the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC). Last week EDINA announced major improvements to its JISC MediaHub service and the BUFVC recently launched new citation guidelines for moving image and sound.
Read blog entry...Top Tips for Photography
The typical digital camera is highly automated and can enable novices to produce usable images with the minimum of effort. However, despite the excellent technology cameras often fail to give good, repeatable results.
Read blog entry...Digital Agenda for Europe survey
DG Connect hopes to make everybody in Europe digital.
Read blog entry...Webinar disseminating the developing digital literacies projects
Each webinar will last up to an hour and will discuss an aspect of the programme’s work. The webinars are free and open to all. Sign up.
Read blog entry...Using SVG image file format
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) has been around since 2001. It uses XML to display the image within a browser which gives it some interesting properties that we leverage. Effectively the browser renders SVG images "on the fly" (coordinates and instructions), enabling us to view the image in all modern browsers (Google chrome, Firefox, safari and Internet explorer 9+) including smartphones and tablet computers.
Read blog entry...National Recording Preservation Plan
The plan is the result of over a decade of work by both the Library and National Recording Preservation board, comprising of 32 recommendations, both short and long term. The recommendations within the plan include a national discography, university based degree programs in audio archiving and an audio-preservation resource directory.
Read blog entry...First filming shoot through the eyes of an intern
As a new intern at JISC Digital Media with a fair but limited amount of knowledge and experience of filmmaking, an opportunity recently arose to gain more of both. So last Thursday, after frantically attempting to dig my car out of what looked like the result of a small avalanche after the recent snowfall, I accompanied JISC Digital Media video advisor Steve to a local house where filming was to take place. The filming in question, was of actors performing a series of good and bad interview scenarios and techniques for medical students at the University of Bristol.
Read blog entry...Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content
JISC and Ithaki S+R release new report "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content".
Read blog entry...New top tips for video editing guide
Today we'd like to share with you our new guide: 'Top Tips for Video Editing'.
Read blog entry...Closed due to adverse weather conditions
Please note that we will be closed on Friday 18th January from noon due to the poor weather conditions.
Read blog entry...Announcing the MediaMosa Foundation
Today sees the creation of the MediaMosa Foundation, an organisation to oversee the continued development and promotion of MediaMosa.
Read blog entry...JISC Digital Media - Now in 3D!
This week saw the long awaited two-day conference '3D Scanning: Artefacts from the past, for the future', organised by Dr Phillip Lindley and hosted by Cambridge University.
Read blog entry...Free Augmented Reality webinar
JISC Advance are hosting a free online webinar session on Wednesday 19th December about using augmented reality to develop new materials.
Read blog entry...Using audio in teaching and learning guide
Today we'd like to share with you a new guide from us 'Using audio in teaching and learning'.
Read blog entry...Camtasia 8 tips
A collection of Techsmith resources to help you make high quality screencasts using Camtasia 8.
Read blog entry...New Digital Media Ecosystems for Learning
About 40 people attended our online surgery yesterday to find out more about the use of popular online digital media tools in teaching and learning, how we can evaluate them to ensure they actually deliver the educational goods, and to discover how a popular online social networking platform is used at an FE College.
Read blog entry...Tutorial for capturing Skype Calls and Webinars
TechSmith, the makers of Camtasia screencasting software have produced a tutorial that guides you through the recording of your skype calls and other online sessions.
Read blog entry...Notes from Janet Streaming the Arts and Humanities Workshop
Janet, the UK’s research and education network, showcased a group of exciting platforms and education that are set to revolutionise distance learning in the Arts and Humanities.
Read blog entry...New guide: digital media in teaching and learning
Today we are pleased to announce a new guide for people interested in finding out how digital media can be used in teaching and learning.
Read blog entry...Notes from REC:all Lecture Capture
Earlier this month the Recording and Augmenting Lectures for Learning project (REC:all), held a well-attended webinar which set out their draft pedagogical framework for lecture capture.
Read blog entry...Successful bids from JISC Advance funding programme
Today we are pleased to announce the successful bids that are to receive funding for new learning resources, methods and expanding opportunities in post-16 learning across the UK.
Read blog entry...BTEC Level 4 Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging is a year old
The Certificate in Digital Imaging, a customised qualification run by JISC Digital Media to support the accredited development of digitisation staff who previously had little provision in the way of formal accreditation of their skills, has had a great first year.
Read blog entry...The creative media suite
There seems to be growing interest in providing dedicated "creative media" computer suites.
Read blog entry...Explore by Place from JISC MediaHub
JISC MediaHub has released a new feature that enables you to explore their large media collection by location.
Read blog entry...JISC Digital Media is ringing in some changes
Hello and Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the new academic year, and JISC Digital Media is ringing in some changes: both to our website and to service remit that will shape our future offering.
Read blog entry...JISC Digital Media at DIVERSE 2012
JISC Digital Media once again had a significant presence at the DIVERSE conference 2012.
Read blog entry...WeVideo online video editor
A powerful, flexible and free online video editor
Read blog entry...Webcam tips from Techsmith
Three top tips for better webcam video.
Read blog entry...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...Mono your Mac
A quick way to get mono audio from your Mac
Read blog entry...Digitising 78 rpm discs
Some excellent advice and tutorials on Audacity's wiki
Read blog entry...Images in blog posts
Over at UK Web Focus, Brian Kelly raises some interesting points about why using images in a blog post is important.
Read blog entry...Using video in the Design School machine workshop
Over at the Loughborough University E-learning blog, Charles Shields introduces a lecturer at the Design School using video to demonstrate metal machining equipment via QR code.
Read blog entry...Screencasting webinar - RSC E Midlands
Yesterday's lunchtime webinar on screencasting, hosted by RSC E Midlands
Read blog entry...Podcasts for teaching music and visual arts
'The effectiveness of educational podcasts for teaching music and visual arts in higher education' by Cheung On Tam looks at the results of 128 students views on podcasts to support their study.
Read blog entry...Podcasting and principles of narrative – a case study
Over at the Online Journalism Blog, Paul Bradshaw has written a case study on using and understanding narrative to improve your podcasts.
Read blog entry...Our Apprentice – Amy’s Hired
In August 2011 JISC Digital Media joined over 100,000 employers in appointing an Apprentice. Eighteen year-old Amy Bryant joined the JISC Advance service's team in August 2011 as a Business and Administration Apprentice (Service Sector Apprenticeships are one of the fastest growing Apprenticeships).
Read blog entry...Exposure compensation - making your snow white
The lightmeters built into today's cameras are quite capable of delivering well exposed images of most types of subject. However there are times when the meter gets it wrong.
Read blog entry...New report on HTML video
Read blog entry...All Our Yesterdays
I really enjoyed this talk and from around 30mins in there is some interesting thoughts on the longevity of media file formats and copyright.
Read blog entry...Webinar Wednesday 18 January on video post-production
On Wednesday 18 January at 1:00 pm, JISC Digital Media will run the third in its series of three live, free, online one-hour webinars on video creation.
Read blog entry...Weekly links 6th January 2012
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Basic Lecture Capture - a low cost solution
A suggestion for a compromised but usable low-cost, lightweight solution to video recording your presentations.
Read blog entry...Weekly links 16th December 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Webinar Wednesday on video production
Read blog entry...On Wednesday 14 December at 1:00 pm, JISC Digital Media will run the second in its series of three live, free, online one-hour webinars on video creation.
Weekly links 9th December 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...How Green is Your Digitisation?
As digitisers we often talk about the sustainability of our digital resources from an economic and technical point of view: maintaining access to our valuable and treasured digital resources for the longer term.
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".
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...Weekly links 2nd December 2011
Read blog entry...These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Weekly links 25th November 201
Read blog entry...These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Webinar tomorrow on video pre-production
Tomorrow (Wednesday 23 November) at 1:00 pm, JISC Digital Media will run a one-hour webinar on video creation.
Read blog entry...Choosing an e-book reader
We have previously written about e-books in our article "Introduction to e-books" and since then have frequently been asked about what e-book reader we recommend.
Read blog entry...Weekly links 18th November 2011
Read blog entry...These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Weekly links 11th November 2011
Read blog entry...These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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The Little Guide to Copyright
In conjunction with our sister JISC Advance service JISC Legal we have created a second Little Guide - the Little Guide to Copyright (PDF).
Read blog entry...Making better videos: Planning Your Video Production
The 23rd November sees the launch of a new series of free JISC Digital Media online surgeries designed to provide help and support and answer any questions you have regarding digital media.
Read blog entry...The Little Guides
We have created a series of 'Little Guides' to address some of the queries and questions we are often asked.
Read blog entry...Case study: University of Bristol’s Education Support Unit
Over the past few months the JISC Digital Media team have been producing a number of case studies to show case the ways in which we have helped our users with their digital media requirements.
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Weekly picks 28th Oct 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Joint Event with DPC - Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Preservation
We are very pleased to annouce a day long event in collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition in tackling current and upcoming trends in digital preservation and how issues of Intellectual Property Rights affect these.
Read blog entry...EdMediaShare Boosts Views
As www.edmediashare.org enters its fourth week, higher than expected view rates demonstrate the potential for the new web service.
Read blog entry...Launch of our BTEC Professional Certificate course in Digital Imaging
From the 21st to the 23rd of November we are launching our new BTEC accredited course in Digital Imaging for the introductory price of £850 for the three days, this is more than 20% discount off the normal rate of £1,100.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 21st Oct 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Audio recording on Android
Following a little research into audio recording on an Android device, a couple of observations...
Read blog entry...Institute of Physics - Audio Production
This is a podcast we produced for the Institute of Physics.
Women in science: a books special - physicsworld.com
Read blog entry...OU Pretty Things
Figures show Open University's iTunes U success driven by mobile learning and iOS.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 14th Oct 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Weekly picks 7th Oct 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...My Moodle - the official iPhone Moodle app
The new official Moodle app for iPhone offers some very interesting media capture and embedding functions, and many other features for accessing and uploading to Moodle on the move...
Read blog entry...EdMediaShare now live
Today we are happy to announce the launch of our new project EdMediaShare, a place to share and find educational video.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 30th Sept 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...One week to launch of EdMediaShare
We're just one week away from the launch of EdMediaShare – our new proof of concept video sharing site.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 23rd Sept 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Zeutschel book scanner test
At JISC Digital Media we were given the oportunity to evaluate a Zeutschel book scanner for a few weeks, our findings have been incorporated into two new documents.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 16th Sept 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...It’s good to EdMediaShare
EdMediaShare - our proof of concept video sharing site - has generated a lot of positive feedback since we announced it last week.
Read blog entry...Ars longa, vita brevis…
An interesting article in the Observer a few weeks ago again raised the issue of the transitory nature of digital media, in this case photographs.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 9th Sept 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...my-Ditto: easy and secure remote access to data
The people at Dane-Elec have come up with a simple and inexpensive way to provide secure access to data anywhere on the Internet.
Read blog entry...Finding Useful Online Video is About to Get Easier
With unprecedented amounts of video being uploaded to User-Generated Content sites (48hrs every minute on YouTube alone1) it's getting much harder to find useful content for teaching, learning and research.
Read blog entry...Font identification on the iPhone
A free app for the iPhone allows you to identify any font that you come across.
Read blog entry...Table top video dolly
Read blog entry...New JPEG technology optimises compression to suit the image
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 2nd Sept 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Professional lighting setups revealed
Melanie Mann has carefully analysed images created by some of the top photographers to determine how they were lit and published her findings on her blog.
Read blog entry...Weekly picks 26th Aug 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Weekly picks 19th Aug 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team has come across throughout the week and were previously posted elsewhere such as our mailing lists, twitter, or facebook accounts.
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Read blog entry...Weekly picks 8 -12 Aug 2011
These weekly posts contain links to the various items of interest that the team have stumbled across throughout the week and previously posted elsewhere such as on mailing lists, twitter, facebook etc.
Read blog entry...Tethered camera app for Android phones
It has been possible to operate a digital SLR from a mobile device for some time but this has required a direct conection between the camera and a PC.
Read blog entry...We’re on facebook!
New JISC Digital Media facebook page provides easy access to news and support.
Read blog entry...A right knees-up and no mistaking
Comedian Roy Hudd donates his huge collection of music-hall sheet music to UEA.
Read blog entry...e-Porfolios Podcasts
We were recently at Thanet College in Kent filming the first interviews for a podcast series on e-Portfolios.
Read blog entry...Ibis Reader for ebooks
Ibis Reader is a platform for reading ePub ebooks in the browser or on a mobile phone.
Read blog entry...High-end iPhone photography?
Photojojo has just released a new product: a mount which enables you to use standard SLR lenses on an iPhone 4.
Read blog entry...New Collection from the V&A
This autumn the Victoria and Albert Museum will be making available a new gallery providing access to many images from its collection.
Read blog entry...Google’s search by image feature mini-test
A friend recently told me that they had seen one of my photographs on an overseas website. They didn't have the URL and the image metadata had been stripped and so a simple subject search probably wouldn’t find it. This is a job for the 'Search by Image' feature offered by Google I thought.
Read blog entry...My DIVERSE 2011 Conference
DIVERSE2011 was a great event and, as well as presenting a paper (about Film Studies undergraduates' experiences of using web-based video to support their learning) I got to see presentations from leaders in the field of digital video in education.
Read blog entry...Introduction to the Digital Audio Software Environment
For any beginners working with digital audio, or anyone who is struggling with finding their way around thier digital audio software platform, this short screencast covers the basics, using Audacity, Reaper and Logic as examples. This screencast is designed to accompany our document The Digital Audio Software Environment.
Read blog entry...Mono and stereo audio in a nutshell
Ever struggled with understanding the difference between and applications of mono and stereo audio files?
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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
