October 29th, 2008
This award-winning site has annotated videos in the use of a range of “Web 2.0″ resources and other things, such as
Audacity
SecondLife
Podcasting using iTunes
Blogs
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
There is a companion site called http://www.multimediatrainingvideos.com/ which covers Flash, Director, Photoshop amongst others
October 27th, 2008
JISC Conference 2009
Date: Tuesday 24 March, 2009
Venue: Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Url: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09
Save the date!
We are delighted to announce our annual conference will be moving to the beautiful city of Edinburgh in 2009 and will take place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Make sure you have saved the date, Tuesday 24 March 2009, in your diary!
This event will be of interest to all those involved in planning for and supporting the use of ICT in research, post-16 and higher education. Delegates who should attend include:
Registration will open over the next few weeks so keep a look out on the JISC Conference website for further information. You can also subscribe to the JISC events web feed to make sure you are kept up to date on all the latest content added to the JISC events section, this will include all new information posted on the JISC Conference.
Programme update
We will be opening the doors of the conference a day early with a welcome drinks reception on the evening of Monday 23 March from 17.30 in the exhibition hall. Delegates will get the opportunity to network and meet with the exhibitors informally. The full conference will then take place the next day on Tuesday 24 March. There will be an excellent range of parallel sessions, a large exhibition and demonstrations. We are also planning some more exciting pre-conference activities, details to be announced in due course!
Full details of the programme outline are available on the conference website.
Keynote speaker announced
We are delighted to announce that Don Olcott, Chief Executive of The Observatory of Borderless Higher Education, London, has confirmed as one of our keynote speakers. Dr Olcott is internationally renowned and he has consulted to colleges, universities, and corporations across the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. He has published extensively in the areas of leadership, faculty development for distance education, organisational change, and higher education policy. Dr Olcott has also received numerous national and international awards for leadership, research and publications in higher education and distance learning.
Networking
We are very excited to be introducing a brand new assisted 1-2-1 networking element to the JISC Conference. Delegates will have access to a special online tool in the run up to the conference. This tool will enable them to search for other delegates they may wish to network with at the event and invite them to meet up. The system automatically allocates a mutually free time slot and a table in a dedicated networking space at the venue. You then just need to turn up at the right time and the right table for your meeting! We hope that this new tool will enhance your experience at the JISC Conference even more! Further information on this will be available nearer the time.
Travel and accommodation
In the meantime you may wish to think about making your travel and hotel arrangements. Edinburgh is a very popular tourist destination so flights, trains and hotel accommodation get booked up very quickly. We strongly recommend that you get this sorted as early as possible. May we also ask that you consider the environment when making your travel arrangements and try to help us reduce the carbon footprint of our event.
Visit the JISC Conference travel information section to help you plan your travel.
We are pleased to be working with Reservation Highways to bring you an online hotel accommodation booking service. Visit the ‘Book Hotel Accommodation’ section of the conference website for full details.
Enquiries
For all enquiries relating to the JISC Conference 2009 please contact jisc@soundscommercial.co.uk / tel: 0117 958 0282.
We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh!
With kind regards
Grace Porter
Events Co-ordinator
JISC
October 27th, 2008
The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management(CERLIM)in the MMU Department of Information and Communications is asking for people to help them gather data on current developments in mobile learning in UK higher education. Please fill in the survey at http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/tiri/mlearning2 .
For more information, please contact
Jillian Griffiths: j.r.griffiths@mmu.ac.uk
Geoff Butters: g.butters@mmu.ac.uk
Jenny Craven: j.craven@mmu.ac.uk
at CERLIM
October 15th, 2008
TASI are very pleased to announce our new, free-to-use online tutorial to assist staff and students in locating images for use in both teaching and learning:
*Internet for Image Searching*
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/tutorials/imagesearching/
The emphasis of the tutorial is on finding copyright-cleared images which are available free; facilitating quick, hassle-free access to a vast range of online photographs and other visual resources.
Sharon Waller from the HEA/JISC Collaboration commented on the new tutorial saying: “This tutorial is an excellent resource for anyone needing to know more about where and how to find images online. The fact that it concentrates on copyright cleared images will make it even more valuable for busy learning and teaching professionals, researchers and students alike. It will also serve to inspire confidence in those needing to use images from the web in their work.”
Sol Picciotto, Professor of Law at Lancaster University reviewed the tutorial saying: “Congratulations on this tutorial. It’s really excellent, very well set out, and the information on copyright is presented clearly and accurately. It really fills a gap, and does so extremely well.”
This tutorial has been created by TASI – the JISC Advisory Service for digital media and Intute as part of the Intute: Virtual Training Suite. The tutorial was funded and supported by the Higher Education Academy / JISC Collaboration Initiative.
For further information please contact Dave Kilbey <d.kilbey@bristol.ac.uk>
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Dave Kilbey, TASI Training Officer and Co-ordinator
TASI – A JISC Advisory Service
In early 2009 TASI will re-brand to JISC Digital Media
Still image, moving image and sound advice
Free Helpdesk for UK Further and Higher Education: <info@tasi.ac.uk>
Online advice documents: <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/>
Hands-on training: <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/>
Tel: 0117 3314332
October 13th, 2008
29 October 2008
12:00 – 15:15
Edge Hill University – Green Solstice Room, Faculty of Health Building, Ormskirk Campus
Charges
NoWAL Members: £37.50*
NoWAL and Edge Hill University are hosting an event to mark the launch of a new online resource, the Copyright Toolkit.
“The Copyright Toolkit is an online resource aimed at helping people deal with copyright issues when using third-party multimedia in learning environments.
Aimed at lecturers, librarians, sound and vision technicians and those who negotiate for the use of third party copyright resources, it features background information about copyright law and a set of interactive exercises to help you understand the key points. It is particularly useful to those who have to publish multimedia resources on the web and in Virtual Learning Environments.
If you produce guidelines or are asked to advise on IPR issues around things like music used in podcasts and images on websites in a VLE, the toolkit should be an invaluable resource.”
The Copyright Toolkit is a project by Copy-Right Consultants (http://www.copy-rightconsultants.co.uk/about.htm) and funded by Eduserv. The training will be delivered by the developers of the toolkit.
Lunch and afternoon drinks are included.
*No discounts are available for this course as lunch is included in the price.
October 9th, 2008
The next BESA Colloquium will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on 21st November 2008. The focus of the colloquium will be ‘Research Informed Teaching’ and the guest speaker is Professor Mike Healy from the University of Gloucester.
October 7th, 2008
From JISC Headlines, September 2008
Are you wired or tired? Tips on how to ease information overload
Effective Practice with e-Portfolios A new JISC report
October 6th, 2008
Press release from JISC 3 October, 2008.:
Over 3,000 hours of historic news footage from ITN’s archive division, ITN Source, has been made available to further and higher education institutions in the UK, giving educators and students cost-free access to a century of video material.
The NewsFilm Online service, www.nfo.ac.uk (or, direct access from within MMU) featuring ITN and Reuters content, forms part of a £22 million digitisation programme, funded by JISC to promote the innovative use of ICT in education and research. All disciplines across further and higher education will have access to the archive for research, teaching and learning.
One of the unique elements of the archive licence agreement is that users from subscribing educational institutions who access the material can download clips and edit them to create their own user content for projects – a first for this type of material.
Educators and scholars at subscribing institutions will have cost-free access to the archive, which starts with black-and-white film footage of the funeral of King Edward VII in 1910 and ends with a colour news clip of Jade Goody in a racial bullying scandal in the Big Brother house in 2007. Other significant events spanning the past century include the Suez crisis in 1956, the first interview with Nelson Mandela in 1961, landing on the moon in 1969 and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. Users can view whole newsreels and download them for use in virtual learning environments.
The NewsFilm Online archive is the result of a collaboration between ITN Source, the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC), JISC and EDINA, a JISC national data centre. The process of digitising newsreels from the 20th and 21st Century has been undertaken by the BUFVC, which selected the NewsFilm Online material from over 1.5 million hours of archive content.
Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow who makes many appearances on NewsFilm Online said, “NewsFilm Online is an exciting and fascinating initiative: a resource which will provide educators and students with a myriad of windows into British and world history over the past century.
“This project exemplifies the benefits of partnership between education and industry. JISC, the BUFVC and ITN Source should be commended for their contribution to this breakthrough in UK education.”
JISC Chair, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, said, “The JISC digitisation programme demonstrates e-resourcing at its best. It is unlocking a wealth of material – some of it previously hard-to-access – and making it available to users regardless of time and location. The NewsFilm Online project is just one of many that will enable the UK higher and further education community to dip into the history, culture and landscape of the UK and beyond. The BUFVC rationale with the NewsFilm Online project has been to digitise the broadest possible range of footage in order to appeal to a wide variety of academic disciplines.”
Mark Wood, Chief Executive of ITN, added: “We’re delighted to give students and educators access to this great video content, which brings the events of the past century to life. The NewsFilm initiative is yet another example of the rapidly expanding use of video content at all levels of education.”
For further information, please go to: www.nfo.ac.uk
For further information on the JISC digitisation programme, please go to: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation_home.html
October 3rd, 2008
As part of the University’s drive to take action in response to the recent results of the National Student Survey, how about trying to improve the way in which students are notified of rearranged or postponed classes?
The University has Web-based technology which enables staff to text large numbers of students relatively easily, and this is already used regularly by many staff, both administrative and academic.
There will be two demonstration/training sessions 10am – 12noon and 2pm – 4pm on the 16th October in Computer Lab 1.20 in the Geoffrey Manton Building. E-mail k.bradshaw@mmu.ac.uk with your staff ID to register for one of the sessions.
