JISC RSC YH Exchange News

The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) holds a range of courses promoting subjects related to the use of moving image in learning, teaching and research.  Forthcoming events:
Copyright Clearance for Print, Broadcast and Multimedia Production
The essential one-day starter course for those needing to copy and use existing content in their new productions and services.
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The UK’s first online commercial radio sound archive has been launched with JISC funding, preserving over 5,000 searchable recordings including the first hour of UK commercial radio in 1973, coverage of five UK general elections and the end of apartheid.
The collection is available online for researchers, lecturers and students at the LBC / Independent [...]

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With Armistice Day fast approaching a JISC project team has taken an unusual approach to ensuring that people continue to learn about the First World War.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new venture in the 3D virtual world Second Life to [...]

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JISC Digital Media Online Surgery
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 [...]

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A multimedia resource to help students and tutors overcome the challenges of group work has been awarded for its innovation in the Jorum learning and teaching competition.
‘Making Group-work work’, developed by LearnHigher, is itself a collaboration between the Universities of Brunel, Bradford and Leeds and involves a series of 10 video episodes, showing five students [...]

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New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released at http://www.youtube.com/user/JISCmedia
The videos feature projects from JISC’s virtual research environment (VRE) programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up research processes across disciplines. These include astronomy, physics, [...]

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From Gorbachev to global warming: education experts choose images for JISC Collections archive
Education experts have taken the first steps towards building a JISC Collections archive containing over 500 hours of film and 56,000 photos documenting modern history.
An expert panel consisting of e-learning advisors, librarians, academics and image specialists, who collectively represent over a hundred years of [...]

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JISC’s new guide to Second Life is written by lecturers for lecturers, to help others to use virtual worlds for teaching.
‘Getting Started in Second Life’ answers some common questions like how to set up in Second Life, what the rules of the world are, how to plan lessons and how best to help students [...]

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This September JISC Digital Media are hosting two free seminars focussing on key topics for individuals involved with digital media. The seminars are funded by the Joint Information System Committee under the ‘JISC ITT Workshops & Seminars: Achievements & Challenges in Digitisation & e-Content’ strand.
Seminar Topics and Dates:
Successfully Building and Managing Digital Media Collection
Date: 15th September
In order for a digitisation [...]

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The JANET Videoconferencing Service (JVCS) has made a new feature available to organisations registered with the JVCS Booking Service. When you book or launch a videoconference through the JVCS Booking Service, you can now choose to record the conference by simply ticking a box.  Once your session has finished and the recording has been processed, [...]

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