All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'training'
Cross-media advice tagged 'training'
Signposts to Relevant Organisations
This page provides links to four types of organisation that digitisation project staff may be interested in: Academic Service Providers; Public Sector Organisations; Standards Organisations; International Organisations.
Read full advice document...Digitisation Staff Training
This paper takes a general looks at the staffing issues related to a digitisation project from a management perspective. It is intended to be of use to resource management staff considering the digitisation of all or part of their collection.
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Training courses tagged
BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days
The following units are the BTEC accredited assessment components of our still image professional development certificate and award.
Read course description...Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course
The use of video in education has ceased to be an occasional occurrence, but the quality of videos has not kept pace with their popularity. 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.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a two-day course. Course fees are as follows:
- £275 for participants from UK Higher or Further Education
- £325 for participants from government, charities, libraries, galleries or museums
- Prices for all other participants are available on request
JISC Advance - Digital Media and Copyright Seminar
Bringing together experts in digital media and copyright law this seminar created by the JISC Advance services, JISC Digital Media and JISC Legal, uses common real-world scenarios to focus on how copyright impacts on the use of digital media. The seminar will allow participants to gain an understanding of the common issues and challenges facing institutions in the current copyright landscape.
Seminar fees: £100 per participant. Includes lunch and refreshments. There will be a pre-seminar online exercise attendees are requested to complete. This is merely to provide some background knowledge prior to the seminar.
Objectives
- To increase confidence in dealing with multi-layer intellectual property rights in digital media
- To identify appropriate approaches to dealing with the uncertainties of copyright law in relation to digital media
- To share experiences of both issues and solutions to IPR challenges in relation to digital media
Building Effective Screencasts
Screencasts - videos of on-screen computer activity, accompanied by voice-over, and possibly other media (webcam video, Powerpoint slides etc) - have in recent times increased massively in popularity, scope and acceptance, and can now provide a sophisticated learning experience, incorporating slides, images, video, audio, screen annotation, subtitles, interactive quizzes and more.. Whether you want to narrate a presentation, demonstrate the use of software, or record and share your screen for any other reason, a screencast may well be the answer.
This practical one-day workshop provides an opportunity to learn how to maximise the value of screencasting in presentation, demonstration and digital storytelling for teaching and learning, in the context of the whole workflow from planning your own short screencast to rendering it as a video. We've even had some delegates posting finished screencasts to YouTube by the end of the day!
Read course description...Digital Media Restoration (Audio-Visual only)
Analogue media deteriorates at an alarming rate and few digitisation projects can hope to retrieve great signals from aged collections. In order to archive maximum usefulness some basic digital remastering is often required. Fortunately, today's digital tools mean we can easily remove unwanted 'defects' whether hisses and scratches from shellac discs or the distorted colours of old videotapes
N.B. This course covers digital restoration of audio-visual resources only. It does not cover restoration of still images
Read course description...Advanced Techniques in Digital Image Capture
This course looks at the technical background behind, and procedures for, image capture and optimisation delivered through hands-on activities. This workshop will teach you how to produce the correct end product for your intended purpose and teach you the easy 'science' of scanning to remove the guesswork from your image capture.
Read course description...Digital Photography - Taking Control of your SLR
This action packed course looks in depth at using a digital SLR's creative controls to put you in charge of your photography. You will also have plenty of hands-on practice with the camera and be shown how to effectively illuminate 2D and 3D objects using tungsten and fluorescent studio lighting.
Read course description...Digital Photography - Getting Started with your SLR
This entry level course will provide you with an understanding of the techniques and skills needed to produce great quality images from a digital SLR camera with ease. Some illuminating background theory will be supported by hands-on practical exercises in photography.
Read course description...Colour Management
Effective colour management is vital within the digital workflow and anyone working with digital images should understand and be employing the core principles. This training course introduces colour management theory and 'good practice' to ensure that you understand how to achieve consistent and accurate colour between applications, platforms, and devices.
Read course description...Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to record and produce recordings of spoken word audio, with specific emphasis being placed upon the recording of lectures, seminars and events. You will learn the basic concepts of recording technologies and through practical exercises you will learn how to confidently apply these to practical situations. The workshop will also introduce you to ideas for delivering new media such as podcasting, and suggest methods for managing your digital recordings.
Read course description...Introduction to Image Metadata
This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your image collection, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.
Read course description...Digitising Analogue Video Recordings
Over the past fifty years the videotape has grown from an obscure television production tool into a vibrant and vital social document. But videotape has proved to be a fragile long-term medium and its contents are at risk. This risk can only be mitigated through careful planning. This workshop will investigate the challenges associated with the preservation of videotapes. Through practical exercises, we will look at how digitising materials to archival standards can both safeguard and help develop a collection. We will also look at the challenge of creating a sustainable digital collection. Quality assurance procedures and best practice will be referred to throughout.
Read course description...Essential Techniques in Digital Image Capture
This entry level course provides an easy to understand theoretical overview of digital images and image capture combined with practical exercises using both a scanner and digital SLR camera for those getting started with creating digital images.
Read course description...Using Digital Media in VLEs
This one day workshop focuses on the effective use of digital media online including the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). During the workshop attendees will discover how to improve their presentation resources, know when and how digital media can be used to enhance learning materials and be able to successfully embed their new knowledge in their VLE and online services.
Read course description...Finding Free-to-Use Images, Video and Audio
If you've ever needed to find images, video or audio you can use in your work materials then this course is for you. It will guide you to all the best places to locate free-to-use, copyright-cleared digital media resources for use in teaching and learning. You'll never use Google to find digital media again!
Read course description...Essential Photoshop Skills
This course will get you up and running with Adobe Photoshop. You will learn key concepts and skills to enable you to understand and start using this exciting application with confidence.
Read course description...Managing Digital Media Collections
Now that many important materials are in a digital form, building an accessible online media collection which successfully delivers images, sounds, video and other media is a goal of many institutions.
Until recently, expensive Digital Asset Management systems where the most viable option, but now open source server applications such as Dspace, Omeka and Drupal hold the promise of truly interoperable and standards-based collection management.
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...Image Optimisation for Print and Web
This course covers the essential skills you need in order to maximise the quality and visual appeal of digital images from both scanners and digital cameras. You will learn the tips and tricks necessary to transform your images quickly and easily.
Read course description...Building a Departmental Image Collection
This course will provide you with a hands-on experience of creating, managing and delivering a departmental image collection. You will acquire the foundation knowledge required to make well informed decisions about building an image library. You will also have the opportunity to discuss and share information with people from the HE/FE/Cultural sector facing similar issues in order to help you develop practical solutions.
Read course description...Copyright and Digital Media
This informative and stimulating course is run by a leading expert in copyright. It looks in-depth at how copyright and other legal issues impact upon digital media and it will enable you to develop practical approaches to clearing and managing those rights within your own collections.
Read course description...Digitising Analogue Audio
To meet the skills required by libraries, archives and institutions to digitise their existing analogue collections, this course aims to provide a complete introduction to the theory and practicalities of successfully digitising analogue audio resources. The workshop will provide hands-on tuition alongside presenting theoretical knowledge with group discussions of topics surrounding the digital lifecycle, in a digitisation project based context. The workshop has been designed as a precursor for our more technical, media specific training modules. The practical elements will involve digitising audiocassette tapes as example media.
Read course description...Scanning with the CLA Licence
This course provides a thorough practical overview of how to digitise images and text from print-based materials. You will use a desktop scanner and related technology to effectively enable you to leverage the rights granted to you by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) scanning licence.
Read course description...Digitising Grooved Discs and Open Reel Audio
This course is designed to meet the requirements of staff in libraries, archives and other related institutions needing to digitise existing analogue collections. The course builds on our Digitising Analogue Audio workshop, by introducing a range of legacy audio media and examining them in more detail.
The workshop will provide the opportunity to both handle these media and configure the equipment needed for their successful playback. A recommended, pragmatic workflow will be followed.
Essential theoretical and interesting historical information is included which together contribute to understanding: the development of audio recording technologies; how to handle and best reproduce each medium; how to digitise each medium to archival standard.
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Blog entries tagged
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?
Read blog entry...New Google image feature
Google has just launched a new feature for image search.
Read blog entry...A podcasting workflow from James Clay - e-learning Stuff Podcast
Author of the e-learning Stuff Podcast, James Clay, has blogged about his podcasting workflow.
Read blog entry...In at the deep end
Our work experience intern - 15 year old Hayley Cartwright - has packed a lot into her week here at JISC Digital Media. This is her screencast diary of some of what she's covered - all scripted, recorded and edited by Hayley herself (with a little expert guidance), and delivered to a tight deadline :
Read blog entry...Personal achievement - CMALT
Today I heard the positive news that I have been awarded my CMALT accreditation!
Read blog entry...#1 - Using blogs and other web tools for collaborative student work
The rise of integrating non-traditional academic online tools with student work has led us to investigate the uses of blogs and other online tools in HE and FE, particularly with regards to collaborative work and as part of student’s reflective practice. This series of blogs begins with an introduction to the subject and technologies commonly used for student blogging. Future posts will investigate this topic in greater detail.
If you have used blogging in your teaching and learning, or would like to see certain topics covered in this series please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Read blog entry...Establishing the digital City limits
I was invited to open the Bath Spa e-learning staff development day on Tuesday 5th July.
Read blog entry...Create simple still image panoramics
A panoramic image is a photograph that captures an extremely wide field of view, in the extreme a panorama can capture a full 360° picture. In film photography this normally requires a specialist camera, with digital photography, software is used to seamlessly 'stitch' neighbouring images together to create a super-wide angle image.
Read blog entry...Digitisation Funding Now Available
Funding opportunities are coming in thick and fast with the recent announcement from NESTA/ARCH & the Arts Council and JISC's eContent/digitisation call 06/11.
Read blog entry...Online surgery retrospective
With online sessions gaining in popularity and use, this is a quick look at how we have used Elluminate for our online surgeries, and some of the feedback we've had from users. Many of our users have recently been expressing increasing interest in delivering online interactive sessions. If you want more information contact Zak or Gavin, and check out the surgery archive.
This is a short promotional video we made to explain what it's all about...
Read blog entry...Refocus a picture after it has been taken!
A newcomer to the photography market is close to launching an impressive new camera which allows the user to refocus the picture after it has been taken.
Read blog entry...Panoramic video on your phone
A new attachment and app in development enables 360° video capture, allowing you to capture an entire room or panorama in a single shot.
Read blog entry...How do light meter Apps measure up?
I know a few photographers who can quite accurately predict the correct exposure to use under a variety of challenging lighting situations, most of us however require a little help from a light meter.
Read blog entry...MEL SiG - Promoting Media Enhanced Learning in HE and FE
Members of JISC Digital Media are affiliated with a wide range of bodies, special interest groups and projects. One group, which are hosting another free event later this week at the University of Glamorgan, is the Media Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (or MEL SiG, for short),which this blog post provides a brief introduction to.
Read blog entry...Online Reading Rooms?
The British Library has annouced plans to work with Google to digitise and make available thousands of texts dating back to the 18th century.
Read blog entry...Initial thoughts on Avid Studio
Avid Technology has recently promoted the launch of its new consumer-oriented video editing application - Avid Studio. As a long time Avid enthusiast, I was at first excited by the announcement, and then disappointed - but have since come round to what looks like an impressive contender.
Read blog entry...Samson Meteor USB microphone
First impressions of the Samson Meteor USB microphone
Read blog entry...Turbo charged - Turbo T.E.L. ‘11
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!
Read blog entry...Four interesting studies about using video
I have been looking through recent studies published online and have found some interesting papers. My criteria for selection are studies that have been published since 1 January 2011, that explore developments in technology, and that discuss the use of video in learning and research.
Read blog entry...Building fluid images
Anybody who has the task of creating webpages that use images and video should find Ethan Marcotte's Alistpart article 'Fluid images' a revelation.
Read blog entry...Microphone recommendations
After picking up a follower's question on Twitter about microphone suggestions, here is our answer in full.
Read blog entry...Turbo T.E.L.
Upcoming Technology Enhanced Learning event organised by RSC South-West
Read blog entry...YouTube editor meets Creative Commons
It is now easy to assign a Creative Commons licence to videos you upload or edit on YouTube.
Read blog entry...Tips, tricks and resources #4
These tips, tricks and resources will help you learn new things, find helpful resources and make you more productive.
Read blog entry...Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Microsoft have released what looks to be a interesting tool for creating panoramic images called the Image Composite Editor.
Read blog entry...Model release document updated
Read blog entry...Google releases new image file format
Google has just released a new image file format called WebP.
Read blog entry...7 top tips for successful video production planning
The normal course of video production separates into a three distinct phases: pre-production (planning), production (filming) and post production (editing). Because production and post production normally employ most of the physical resources used in a project (travel, recording media, equipment, personnel) it is important to manage these resources and the risks involved as efficiently as possible - and to do that you need to plan carefully.
Here are our 7 top tips for successful video production planning:
Read blog entry...Responses to The Hargreaves Review
Read blog entry...Right On - A summary of the Ian Hargreaves Report on Intellectual Property and Growth
(Please note that opinions in this article do not constitute legal advice in any way!)
After all the online speculation the independent review of Intellectual Property and Growth by Ian Hargreaves has finally been published. In November 2010 the Prime Minister David Cameron announced a review of how the Intellectual Property framework supports growth and innovation, and educational and cultural institutions have waited with baited breath to find out if recommendations would be made regarding hot topics including digital reformatting, orphan works and exceptions.
Read blog entry...In response to Student owned devices
On Monday Steve Wheeler wrote a blog post on mobile and student owned devices which I thought I'd respond to here. Please read the post and comments and then come back.
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Training courses
- Building Effective Screencasts 12 June 2012
- Managing Digital Media Collections 14 June 2012
- Digitising Analogue Video Recordings 20 June 2012
- Introduction to Image Metadata 05 July 2012
- Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews 2-day course 25 July 2012
- BTEC Professional Certificate in Digital Imaging: 3 days 24 September 2012
