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 'training'
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...Image Optimisation
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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...Finding Free-to-Use Images Online
If you’ve ever needed to find images online that 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 images for use in both teaching and learning. You’ll never use Google to find images again!
Read course description...Using Digital Media in VLEs
This one day workshop focuses on the effective use of digital media in presentations and online usage including the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). During the workshop attendees will discover how to improve the design of their presentation resources, know when and how digital media can be used to enhance learning materials and be able to successfully embed material in the VLE.
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...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...Managing a Raw Digital Photography Workflow
Being able to manage a digital image workflow is a vital skill for both individuals and institutions in today’s market place. This course considers a simple digital photography workflow from the ground up. You will first capture a series of images in raw and then import them into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 - a popular and powerful Image Management System (IMS) and editing tool for photographers. Here you will employ appropriate image editing processes and learn how to successfully leverage the power of an IMS in order to quickly find the images you need. You will then produce content appropriate for onscreen and print use.
This course will also explore the considerable advantages of utilising camera raw/DNG file formats.
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Blog entries tagged 'training'
Five new training courses for 2010
We’re very pleased to announce our training programme for January to April 2010… and we have no fewer than five brand new courses in the schedule!
Read blog entry...Three new moving image documents just added to the website!
After some delay, the Basic Guide to Videoing Interviews, the Basic Guide to Videoing Lectures and the Basic Guide to the Flip are now up on our website.
Read blog entry...Free-to-attend digitisation seminars
JISC Digital Media have just announced a series of free-to-attend seminars in September.
Read blog entry...And the winner is…
The first two institutions have been chosen for JISC Ditital Media’s new Video Assist programme.
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...Helpdesk and training provide expert guidance
A new case study reveals how we have been of help to our FE colleagues.
Read blog entry...April training update
Due to high levels of demand JISC Digital Media is putting on an additional course for Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts on the 3rd June.
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...Video training course - place available
UPDATE: 24th April now full, next available date 4th August. Following a cancellation, we have a spare place on our new Digitising Analogue Video Recordings training course on Fri 24th April.
Read blog entry...Summer workshop programme
We’ve just published our new series of courses for the summer term
All of these courses are scheduled to run in Bristol. However, we are often able to provide training for you in your institution and almost all of our workshops can be requested as a one-to-one (see the training page on our website for details of this).
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Training courses
- Essential Photoshop Skills 16 March 2010
- Digitising Analogue Video Recordings 22 March 2010
- Image Optimisation 23 March 2010
- Building a Departmental Image Collection 13 April 2010
- Colour Management 26 April 2010
