Media in Digital Teaching

Media Hopper Replay is the University's lecture recording solution. It provides all staff and students with a space that they can use to create and upload media and then store or publish it to various places including VLEs, websites and social media channels. This 1hr webinar is designed to provide you with a basic overview of Media Hopper Replay and some of its most useful features.

Learning Outcomes:

•     Opt in or out using the Replay Scheduler
•     Access Media Hopper Replay
•     Perform an Ad-Hoc recording in a teaching space
•     Make simple changes to lecture recordings (availability and editing)
•     Upload media content from your computer
•     Download the Universal Capture tool
•     Record and Live Stream using Universal Capture

Media Hopper Create is the University's media asset management solution. It provides all staff and students with a space that they can use to create and upload media and then store or publish it to various places including VLEs, websites and social media channels. 

Learning Outcomes: 

• Access the Media Hopper web portal and log in 
• Browse existing channels and media content 
• Upload media content from your computer 
• Download and install the Desktop Recorder tool 
• Record your screen with a webcam and audio narration 
• Create and manage your own channels and playlists 

Media Hopper Replay is the University's lecture recording solution. It provides all staff and students with a space  that they can use to create and upload media and then store or publish it to various places including VLEs, websites and social media channels. This 1hr webinar is designed to provide you with more in-depth knowledge of the Active Learning Platform tools available withing Media Hopper Replay. ​​​​

Learning Outcomes:

•     Use polling in Media Hopper Replay
•     Use the Q&A Feature for live sessions
•     Use the Q&A feature for recordings
•     Understanding the flag tool
•     Use the available analytics to better understand engagement 
•     Understand Automatic Speech Recognition in Media Hopper Replay, to include:
  • Understand the transcript viewer
  • Editing transcripts
  • Publishing transcripts as a closed caption track

Audacity is an easy to use, free, open source audio editor you can use to produce high quality, consistent, voiceovers for videos and presentations, create podcasts and much more.

Learning Outcomes:

• Download and install Audacity
• Record a voiceover from your own computer
• Seamlessly remove unwanted parts of a recording
• Reduce background noise on your recording
• Improve the 'warmth' and consistency of the voiceover using equalisation, compression and normalisation
• Fade music or other sounds in and out of your recording

The session introduces you to automated and manual methods you can use to add subtitles (closed captions) to video or audio files that you have uploaded to Media Hopper Create, the University's media asset management service. We'll also advise on how to optimise your recordings to ensure the highest quality audio, and therefore the best possible automatic subtitles.

Learning Outcomes:

• Principles of good subtitling;
• Ordering automatic captions via Media Hopper Create
• Editing and improving automatic caption files using Media Hopper Create’s integrated editor.

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This course is a beginner level GIF making workshop that doesn't assume any prior experience using graphic editing software tools. 

In this introductory workshop you will be guided through the steps to create your very own GIF using images and materials from University of Edinburgh Museum, library, and archival materials. 

Over the course we will look at the variety of public domain and openly licensed materials on the web that are available for creative re-use and discuss the ethical responsibilities we as creators have towards those materials. 

• Using Stickers 
• Colour changes and frames  
• Editing and altering 
• An introduction to open licences and how they allow specific re-use of copyright protected works