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  • 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.

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  • Managing your Digital Image Workflow

    Is your collection of images disorganised and giving you a headache? Are you drowning in digital images and unable to find the images you need, when you need them? Do you find images you want to use but have no idea who owns the copyright? If so, this course will help you get your collection back on track.

    Being able to manage a digital image workflow is a vital skill for both individuals and institutions in today’s market place. On this course you will consider a workflow from the ground up. You will work with a series of images looking at the essential elements of managing them through their lifecycle. File formats including raw will be both discussed and used, and you will get hands-on experience of using applications including Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to both edit and manage your images. You will look at methods for sorting through and prioritising images, managing versions and learn how to use appropriate metadata to maximise the value of your collection. Ultimately you will be able to find the right images for a given scenario, and then produce image content appropriate for onscreen and print use.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Building Effective Screencasts

    Screencasting - publishing and sharing recordings of on-screen computer activity, coupled with other media (voice-over, video etc) - continues to increase in popularity. 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 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. Screencasts are flexible tools suitable for a range of learning scenarios and digital media types. They can provide a sophisticated learning experience, incorporating slides, images, video, audio, screen annotation, subtitles, interactive quizzes and more.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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