New MEDIALibrary & New Blog!
New MEDIALibrary Over the summer our MEDIALibrary has had an upgrade, and has a new look and feel alongside some great new features and improved usability! The MEDIALibrary makes it easy for staff and...
Category: Media Library
Video and Inclusivity: Captions and Subtitles
What are Captions and Subtitles? Captions (sometimes called ‘subtitles’) are the textual representation of a video’s soundtrack. They are critical for viewers who have a hearing impairment, and they are also a great tool...
10 Ways to Use Video in Your Teaching
The use of video, audio & multimedia has become a lot more mainstream in HE teaching, learning and assessment in recent times, mainly due to the accessibility and ease of use of equipment and software,...
Assessment Guidelines: Videos for Students
Following a successful pilot last academic year, the Occupational Therapy programme team have again created video assignment guidelines for students on their module assessment. The videos provide a overview of the assessment criteria, the learning...
JISC Digital Media InfoKit: Video Production
Jisc Digital Media’s ongoing expansion of its infokit offering continues with the release of the Video Production infokit. There are many reasons why video can play a useful role in education, in teaching, research and...
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) BUFVC Off Air TV Recording
Through the combined efforts of TEL, Media Services and ILS, YSJ have subscribed to the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) BUFVC Off Air TV Recording service. BoB, as it is commonly known as, allows staff...
Helix Media Library User Group 2013
On Friday 29th November I headed down to London Metropolitan Uni for the annual Helix Media Library (HML) User Group meeting. This was my 2nd trip to the User Group meeting, last year I...
Flipped Classroom
Flip teaching (or flipped classroom) is a form of blended learning which encompasses any use of technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a tutor can spend more time interacting with students...
Helix Media Library
The Helix Media Library has now been installed and is up and running, you can take a look here: http://hml.yorksj.ac.uk/ Aside from a bit of work in the background, the next step is to...
Helix Media Library – User Group Feedback
Last Friday I went down to London for the Helix Media Library User Group meeting, it was a great chance for me to find out more about what HML is/does, network, and hear presentations...