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IWMW 2010

Billy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:05:33 +0000

Another great Institutional Web Management Workshop last week in Sheffield. Sponsored by Statistics into Decisions, I took the chance to try out the Canon 7D and shot a series of interviews:

Brown University talk about their adoption of Google Apps for Education

Billy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:30:16 +0000

Brown University has gone Google

Why Ivy Tech? (and YouTube embeds)

Billy — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:36:06 +0000

Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana is offering scholarships to students publishing YouTube videos promoting the College. An interesting idea, although, as Wired Campus point out, awarding the prizes to the videos with the most views is flawed.

(In other news, if you’re trying to embed a YouTube video and can’t find the embed html on the YouTube page, try uninstalling the Firefox addon Easy YouTube Video Downloader which for some reason hides the embed options….)

JISC digital media online surgeries

Billy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:59:28 +0000

I’m hoping to attend JISC Digital Media’s two day training course Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews in March, so it’s great to see them making available high quality training materials through their Vimeo online surgeries.

I’ve embedded the latest below on microphone technique and placement.

#6 Online surgery – Microphone technique and placement from JISC Digital Media on Vimeo.

Youtube adds auto captions

Billy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:03 +0000

As a disciple of the ‘all audio and video must have a transcription’ religion, I’ve spent countless hours over the last few years using the excellent, free, NCH Express Scribe to manually transcribe everything. It’s great to hear that YouTube are today adding (for select partners at first) auto captioning (including translations) using their excellent voice recognition capabilities.

Educause 09 and Lawrence Lessig

Billy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:04:15 +0000

Videos from Educause 09 sessions are starting to be made available (you’ll need Silverlight installed, can’t install it from behind the firewall at work myself…), including Point/Counterpoint: Blackboard, Moodle, and Sakai and Looking Back, Looking Forward: Trying to Use 48 Years in Academic IT to Predict Our IT Future.

Lawrence Lessig delivered the keynote It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right, I’ve embedded it below and linked to the mp3 file.

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JISC Legal update website, produce video

Billy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:20:45 +0000

Everyone in the higher education sector should produce a video like this when they update their website. I’ve been learning video editing techniques in the last few weeks and I can only look on with awe at JISC’s use of transitions.

Boston University campus on Google Earth

Billy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:51:50 +0000

Video showing Boston University campus buildings on Google Earth. Don’t know if it’s just too early for me but I couldn’t work out how to bring the buildings up for myself on Google Earth.

Oxford University’s video Wall of 100 Faces

Billy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:30:12 +0000

A great new project from Oxford, Wall of 100 Faces is a videowall with 100 short videos introducing a range of students at the university. It’s taken eight months to put together and there’s an interesting video on the wall with producer Hannah Madsen describing the background and processes (no direct link to individual videos unfortunately, Hannah’s video is the last, in the bottom right hand corner).

Why use Google Apps for Education – free web seminar

Billy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:50:09 +0000

A growing number of US universities and the University of Sunderland are already using Google Apps for Education to deliver email, instant messaging, calendars and document collaboration.

Next Thursday, 25 June 2009, Google are delivering a free live Google Apps for Education webinar (10am PDT which I think is 6pm British Summer Time)