On Monday and Tuesday I lent my multimedia “skills” to HEFCE, to help them capture and edit audio at their 2008 conference. I was there with Matt Jukes (handling the HEFCE Conference 2008 blog) and Philip Pothen (organising delegate and speaker interviews) and together we charged around (some of us) and made the conference feel very busy and “documented”.
One of the podcasts which I recorded and edited is available from the HEFCE blog, but I thought I’d link to it here so I can keep a tab on it for future use:
It was a pleasure working with Helen Cherns, and others, from the HEFCE Comms team and I hope they keep up the multimedia activity which I helped them to start. Here’s hoping that we see some good multimedia stuff appearing on their website…
Look for more audio that I helped sort out at the HEFCE Conference 2008 page on their website HERE.
I’ve wanted to link the JISC Podcast to my blog for ages and embed and highlight selcted podcasts within it, but have never quite got round to doing it until now. But seeing as JISC Involve has the Audio Player plugin working now, I can easily link selected podcasts up to my posts…so to start us off, here’s the first podcast we did:
Podcast: Wales’ Leader of the House opens international digitisation conference
A major international conference on digitisation took place in Cardifflast week. Opened by Carwyn Jones, now Counsel General and Leader of the House in the Welsh Assembly Government, the conference attracted around 150 senior figures from around the world. At the time of this interview, Carwyn Jones was Minister for Education, Culture and the Welsh Language. In it he gives his thoughts on the importance of ICT to Welsh education and how the Welsh Assembly Government is working to widen access to digital resources to support education and the promotion of Welsh culture and language.
I’ve been researching into which would be the best video camera for JISC to use which has the capability for usb webstreaming. Since we already own a Sony MiniDV camera (the Sony HDR-HC7E) which covers most of the technical requirements I set for an all purpose camera (HD, MiniDV, external mic plugin, etc…) , I thought it made most sense to get another Sony MiniDV handycam which is compatible with everything it does, but which also can do the webstreaming. This led me to look into the Sony DCR-HC37E.
This camera is receiving rave reviews wherever it goes, partly because of its ease of use, but also for its high quality of components and features. It doesn’t do HD and you can’t plug an external mic into it, but that doesn’t worry me seeing as the other camera JISC owns can do this, and I figure that if I’m going to be webstreaming then the camera is going to have to be plugged into my computer, so I can just plug any external mics or sound sources straight into that. I’ll be able to swap tapes between them because they’re both MiniDV, so any prerecorded stuff that’s done on the pro camera can be switched to the webstreaming one for uploading. As long as it’s not in HD of course…
I reckon this is going to be great and I cant wait for the camera to arrive in the post so I can get experimenting and streaming…
JISC TV here we come! Expect to see things here…
Since Matt left JISC to move to HEFCE I’ve taken over administrating the JISC Wikis using Confluence. I have to say that I think it’s great and I’m really enjoying using it and learning its extensions, customisations and capabilities. Once I’ve done a little more experimenting with Confluence we (the web team) hope to open the wikis up to the whole JISC Executive and have a lot more people travelling through them. Bring it on I say..
I’ve been uploading JISC Podcasts to the website now for about three months and thought that this would be a good place for me to keep track of what progress I make on them and the whole project in general. I’m soon to begin producing and editing screencasts for JISC too, so I’ll keep a track of how that progresses here as well.
At the moment all previous JISC podcasts can be found here, which is also where you can sign up to the RSS feed or subscribe to them via iTunes.
I’ve just uploaded two new podcasts, both with delayed publishing dates and times, so that when I’m on annual leave there will still be a multimedia delivery on the website.
