All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'web services'
Moving images advice tagged 'web services'
Using Web-based Services for Hosting Videos
This advice document deals with the potential of using web based services for hosting videos suitable to support and promote academic work and an institution's research and business and community engagement (BCE) activities.
Read full advice document...Finding Videos for Academic Purposes Using Web-based Video Hosting Sites
This advice document deals with the potential of using web-based services for finding videos suitable to support academic work and business and community engagement (BCE).
Read full advice document...Using Web-based Services for Finding and Hosting Videos for Academic Purposes
This advice document provides an overview of the research carried out for our advice documents: Using Web-based Services for Hosting Videos and Finding Videos for Academic Purposes Using Web-based Video Hosting Sites.
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Audio advice tagged 'web services'
Free Online Audio Editors
There is a wide range of both free and commercial software which you can install onto your computer to record and edit digital audio, whether for podcast or music production. But what if you don't have the ability to install software on your machine, or it isn't powerful or fast enough for the task, or there isn't enough space, or if you simply don't want to?
For simple audio editing and processing tasks there are now a few versatile audio tools which you can access online via their providers' websites, and which run on remote servers while you remotely operate their interface through your familiar web browser, and stream audio to and from them via the internet.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'web services'
Delicious Bookmark Service
This advice document brings to your attention the free online bookmark service Delicious. Its ability to allow you to manage bookmarks by saving, searching and sharing will be of interest to anybody who has to manage many bookmarks for individuals or groups. It has applications of use for teaching and learning which will be described below.
Read full advice document...Using digital media for your e-Portfolio
e-Portfolios are an important part of many learners' academic life. This advice document introduces the concept of an e-Portfolio and explains how digital media can be used effectively.
Read full advice document...Introduction to Fonts and Typefaces
This advice document provides an introductory guide to fonts. It shows you where you can find legitimate free fonts and defines some of the terminology used in typography. It is aimed at readers with little or no prior typographic knowledge who are interested in using fonts other than those supplied with their computer. It also looks at the recent developments in the use of non-standard fonts on the web.
Read full advice document...Using SlideShare to Share Presentations
This article provides an overview of a web service for uploading, embedding and sharing presentations called SlideShare. After a description of the features available we will look at its uses for teaching and learning.
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Blog entries tagged 'web services'
Using digital media for your e-Portfolio
JISC Digital Media would like to introduce our new guide to Using digital media for your e-Portfolio.
Read blog entry...Providing live support to your community over the web
Providing Live Support to your Community over the Web is our seventh in the new series of ten advice documents.
Read blog entry...A Delicious for scholarly articles
I just discovered CiteULike, a website for organising and sharing references to scholarly articles.
Read blog entry...New advice on free online screencasting tools
As part of our ongoing series of guides to free online media creation and editing tools, we've just added a new advice document Free Online Screencasting Tools.
Read blog entry...Free online audio editing tools
A new advice document looking at free to use online tools for recording, editing and converting audio files.
Read blog entry...Backing up delicious bookmarks
Whenever using free web services it is important to make regular backups in case the service suddenly becomes unavailable.
Read blog entry...Google’s open source web fonts
Last week we published our Introduction to Fonts and Typefaces which included a look at recent developments in the use of web fonts.
Read blog entry...Find out more about fonts and typefaces
Our latest advice document is an Introduction to Fonts and Typefaces.
Read blog entry...How to get attention on Flickr
Once you have produced a collection of multimedia resources, it is typical to hope that many people will visit and view said resources.
Read blog entry...A little (Myna) bird told me…
... that there's a new browser-based audio editing and mixing environment out from Aviary:
Myna - a free digital audio editor accessed entirely via the web.
Read blog entry...Essay examining Blackboard
I just came across a peer review essay critically examining Blackboard which may be of interest to the community.
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