JISC Digital Media in collaboration with the Virtual Training Suite have launched two new tutorials: Internet for Audio Resources and Internet for Video and Moving Images. The tutorials provide information and advice on locating audio and video resources for use in teaching & learning. They follow on from the launch of the sucessful Internet for Image Searching tutorial.
The Virtual Training Suite has been producing online tutorials for a number of years helping to guide students through the information maze of the Internet and pointing them to valuable materials in their own curricular areas. Now three new online tutorials have been added to the set covering the Internet for Music, Internet for Video and Moving Images and Internet for Audio. The last two of these have been specially prepared by JISC Digital Media (the JISC Advisory service for Digital Media).
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…they were sighted, to be exact, at the RSC Scotland North & East Winter Fayre which took place at the beautiful and historic National e-Science Centre in the capital on the 15th of December. The event was designed to showcase the work of JISC Advance and the JISC Service companies and to celebrate the progress that has been made in the first decade of the 21st century in applying technology to teaching and learning.
The theme for the Fayre was ‘where were we, where are we, and where might we be in the future’. The first keynote from John Burt, Principal of Angus College, staff member Mina Welsh and Angus student Iain Scott, who presented a very positive picture of how a typical FE College in Scotland is engaging with technology to the benefit of its students and the wider community.
Keynotes were accompanied by a series of presentations and workshops by RSC staff and outside speakers. The silver pennies in the dumpling here were sessions on Google Wave, podcasting, e-books, games in online assessment and Access Apps. And, as if the bird wasn’t well enough stuffed by then, JISC Services such as JISC Legal, Mail, infoNet, Digital Media, Netskills, CETIS and JANET showcased their finest in the conference ‘marketplace’. There was even time for running a competition through the day, the star prize of a new Sony e-Book reader going to Colin Maxwell of Carnegie College.
JISC Digital Media are providing fortnightly one-hour online help and support sessions to answer any queries you have regarding digital media. Queries regarding any aspect of still images, moving images (including video), audio and how they can be used for teaching and learning are welcome. Technical, workflow related or general queries will be answered and there are no limit to the number of queries that can be asked. No query is too simple to be explored.
Even if you are not able to make it to one of the online sessions an archive including questions and answers will be made available.
Each of the sessions begin with a short presentation on a specific topic and then the rest of the session will be free for questions and answers (not limited to the session’s topic). The schedule or past and future sessions is:
Click here for more information about JISC Digital Media Online Surgeries
Three new advice documents on how to shoot video have recently been added to the JISC Digital Media website. The advice covers videoing interviews and lectures, as well as how to use a Flip digital camera.
A new JISC Digital Media service called Video Assist has been launched recently.
They offer free in-depth support to projects in FE/HE which require the creation of moving image resources. There are submission deadlines for proposals – further details here http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/video-assist.
JISC Digital Media has recently announced the first issue of Intermedia, a new publication providing an insight into the work of the service and “what is happening in the world of digital media.” The first issue includes articles on mobile learning, podcasting, Flickr and pinhole photography, as well as details of forthcoming events.
Video Assist, a new scheme to offer colleges and universities free individual consultations on how to create superior moving image resources was announced by JISC Digital Media on June 10th. The scheme will offer six projects over a 12 month period to help build the digital skills of education professionals to enhance the work they produce. There will be three rounds of the project beginning in July 09 and repeated in November and again in February 2010. Click here for full details of Video assist.
JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to be funded as part of its e-content programme for 2008-2011. Funding of up to £275,000 is available for the digitisation of catalogues and manuscripts related to Islamic Studies.
The deadline for proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon on 1 June 2009
Projects must start by 1 September 2009,run for up to 18 months and be complete by 28 February 2011.
Click here or further details about the grant funding call and eligibility.
