Category Archives: Information

New tutorials on finding video and audio resources

JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite have launched two new online tutorials: Internet for Audio Resources and Internet for Video and Moving Images. The free-to-use tutorials have been designed to assist staff and students within the … Continue reading

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CaRILLO: Information Literacy and repurposing learning objects

Carillo was a one day event for developers of information literacy teaching and learning material organised by the University of Birmingham Library. It featured a range of talks on the issues around creating, finding, sharing and re-purposing learning resources in … Continue reading

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Library day in the life project – Monday

So I’m taking the plunge for the Library day in the life project – Round 5 – the idea being to log your day / week and share with the world that librarians do a lot more than you may … Continue reading

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SlideShare Presentation Pack

Just spotted the option to embed a SlideShare presentation pack | Get your Presentation Pack Thanks to @KarenBlakeman for this – her presentations are much better! It helps when your blog theme is wide enough to cope!

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Follow Intute on Twitter

Loyal readers may well have spotted that Intute has been experimenting with Twitter for a while, now we are going to be Twittering on behalf of the service as a whole. Up to now we have been providing a range … Continue reading

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Why create metadata

Which is a better summary of the content? In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God … Continue reading

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A Bakers Dozen of Practical Podcasting Tips

Audio podcasting may seem to have taken a bit of a back seat in comparison to video based resources recently, but there are still plenty of people interested in the possibilities of sound based resources. I was recently asked to … Continue reading

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A Bakers Dozen of Practical Podcasting Tips

Beware the audio phile – audio recording can get very involved – feedback from those who spend weeks mastering a track may not be relevant – ask yourself is this good enough for someone listening on an iPod or at … Continue reading

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Friends, fans, followers … lend me your clicks

Recently the issue of digital identities has been invading my consciousness  – not so much what do we mean by an online friend, but how do we acquire or stumble into different groups of people online – so I thought … Continue reading

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My Twitter Mosaic

Here’s my Twitter mosaic Get your twitter mosaic here. Only two of them don’t have bio pics – and what a fine looking lot you are too!

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