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...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...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.
Read full advice document...There are a multitude of websites providing access to a wide range of digital media resources (images, video and audio) covering many subject areas. This can be very bewildering if you are searching for specific resources to use in the lecture/classroom or for inclusion in a VLE (virtual learning environment). The purpose of this document is to provide a subject-specific guide to finding digital media resources with links to a number of useful websites.
Read full advice document...There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.
Read full advice document...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...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...It is now easy to assign a Creative Commons licence to videos you upload or edit on YouTube.
Read blog entry...Experiments with YouTube Machine Transcription and Camtasia Speech-to-Text tools.
Read blog entry...Latest iPod Touch adds microphone and cameras
Read blog entry...Over the weekend I came across the video below, 'Changing Education Paradigms', that uses mixed media (digital video and live drawing) to produce visuals to support an audio talk. In this case, the drawings work to excellent effect for keeping my attention longer than I normally would.
Read blog entry...A Spanish court has re-affirmed the European ruling that YouTube is not responsible for any copyright infringement incurred by the posting of a video on its website.
Read blog entry...We've been waiting for the latest instalment of the Team Digital Preservation cartoon series and here it is at last.
Read blog entry...Recent events have pitched Adobe against Apple in an online video standards stand-off. This has made it difficult for those responsible for online video delivery, finding themselves having to take a side and make a some very difficult decisions.
Read blog entry...Over at David Hopkins e-Learning blog is a handy 'how-to' for adding YouTube videos within PowerPoint.
Read blog entry...Our latest advice documents look at the most useful sites for finding digital media resources online.
Read blog entry...This short concept video demonstrates how Sports Illustrated might work in the near future using a tablet/mobile device. found via The Fischbowl
Read blog entry...Hot on the heels of their second adventure, Team Digital Preservation are back!
Read blog entry...We love the second in a series of amusing cartoons promoting digital preservation from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE).
Read blog entry...An excellent short animation from DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) aims to spread the word about digital preservation in an easy to follow format.
Read blog entry...Flip has just announced the UK release of the MinoHD which, as you might guess, is an HD version of the Flip video camera.
Read blog entry...Mike Fisher has a fascinating blog called DigiGogy. On it he recently created and posted a visual representation of Bloom's taxonomy with a slew of Web 2.0 tools positioned on it in appropriate places.
Read blog entry...There's a remarkable little AR program you can run if you have a webcam on your computer.
Read blog entry...This happened last year, but it's still pretty interesting. An unsigned band made a promo video for almost nothing using CCTV footage. Here's a brief description of it in ArsGeek.
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The YouTube viewer is now in a widescreen (16 by 9) aspect ratio.
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