Digital photography, audio, video?

A new series of training sessions from JISC Digital Media has been announced covering using digital images, finding free images, recording lectures and digital photography amongst others.

You can find the details here -

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/training/

What is JISC Digital Media?

JISC Digital Media (formerly known as TASI) is a JISC Advisory Service, which provides advice, guidance and training to the UK's Further and Higher Education community on:

• Creating digital media resources specifically still images, moving images and sound resources
• Delivering digital media resources to users
• Using digital media resources to support teaching, learning and research
• Managing both small and large scale digitisation projects

JISC Digital Media is hosted at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at the University of Bristol.

Seen and Heard: Young people creating digital media

In light of the recent ‘Digital Britain’ report, Futurelab’s annual conference will be dedicated to exploring the opportunities and challenges for young people in becoming digitally active, and the implications for the professionals who work with them. Aimed at education practitioners, researchers and policy makers, ‘Seen and Heard: Young people creating digital media’ will take place on Thursday 8th October in Bristol.

There will be keynotes from Channel 4, the British Film Institute and Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) England, and presentations from a number of innovative practitioners who are using digital media in the classroom. A selection of hands-on workshops will also be available including Imitating the Dog, Radio in Schools and Chew TV.

An early-bird discount applies to all bookings received before 20 September 2009.

More information and a booking form can be found on our website at http://www.futurelab.org.uk/events/listing/seen-and-heard. Alternatively, please call 0117 915 8206.

e-learning & Cakes: Gadgets for podcasting

After a long break it's time for another e-Learning & cakes session. e-Learning & cakes is an informal gathering of anyone interested in the use of technology in learning & teaching. An opportunity to find out what's going on in the University, share what you're doing or just find out a bit more about learning technology - and cakes. This time there will be opportunity to play with a range of gadgets for creating audio and video podcasts quickly and easily.

• When: Wednesday 24th June
• Time: 11:00am
• Venue: Room 703 on the 7th Floor of the Library

Another chance to win?

The ALT-Epigeum Award for the most effective use of video in an educational or training context The winner will receive a £500 cash prize together with an expenses-paid trip for two people to central London to spend half a day meeting and learning from the Epigeum team. The winning and any highly commended entries will be showcased at the September ALT Conference in Manchester, with the prize awarded at the 2009 ALT Conference Dinner on Wednesday 9 September. The closing date for entries is 19 June 2009.

For more information go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/awards.html
For more information on the conference visit http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2009/

Newsfilm Online - 3,000 hours of footage

Newsfilm Online is a JISC-funded service comprising a selection of news stories and programme scripts from the ITN/Reuters archives – some 3,000 hours of footage; c. 60,000 stories.

Video playback and downloading are available to staff and students as Swansea University subscribe to the service. You can access the content here http://www.nfo.ac.uk/ using your University email and password.

The site includes:

Collections - Descriptions of and list of story titles for all the collections.
Content Selection -The met

Publish Post

hod and policy behind the choice of materials included in NewsFilm Online.
ITN Studio Scripts -Information about the c. 25,000 programme scripts available in NewsFilm Online.
History -A short history of the British cinema newsreels, the birth of television news and a short history of ITN.

Social Media in Plain English

A new video from the Commoncraft Show this time on the subject of Social Media