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. This webinar is designed to provide you with a basic overview of Media Hopper Create and some of its most useful features.
Read moreMedia Hopper Create: Introduction
Digital Strategy – Developing a vision for the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Future
This will be an interactive session to discuss how Digital Skills will play a key part in the delivery of the University’s Digital Strategy.
Read moreHow to create videos for online courses: An introduction
For this Digital Skills Festival session, we will introduce you to our latest offering “How to Create Videos for Online Courses” and empower you to create engaging videos to film on your own using tools you likely have to hand (i.e. a smartphone and/or tablet). You will hear from team members behind both short online courses and watch a demo on how you can turn your smartphone into a high-quality filming device for educational purposes.
Read moreProducing a thesis or dissertation using Microsoft Word
This webinar is aimed at students intending to produce a thesis or dissertation using Microsoft Word. During the webinar, we’ll show you how to use Word’s advanced features to efficiently produce a quality document.
Read moreSubtitling for media creators
This webinar will introduce you to automated and manual methods you can use to add subtitles (closed captions) to video or audio files you have uploaded to Media Hopper Create, helping to make them accessible. We’ll also give advice on how to optimise your recordings to ensure the highest quality audio, and therefore the best possible automatic subtitles.
Read moreIntroduction to Audacity: Audio recording and editing
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.
In this webinar, you’ll learn learn the basics of using Audacity to capture and edit voiceovers.
Read moreAdobe Creative Cloud Express: Advanced
During this session, learn how to use the advanced features within Adobe Creative Cloud Express to make your social media graphics and newsletters even more engaging. This course builds upon the knowledge and skills gained from the Adobe Creative Cloud Express Introductory course.
Read moreVlogging & YouTube Marketing
In this session, Ritwik Arya shares his journey of starting a vlogging channel on YouTube and how he achieved 1 million views and 60,000 watch hours within one year of launching the channel.
Read moreTikToks and Instagram Reels: Using Short-Form Video to Engage Students
This hour-long session will introduce you to the short-form video format and its monumental impact on social media. Discover the perks of using short-form video in your marketing strategy, examples of how it has been used in the context of higher education, and most importantly – how you can use it to connect with “kids these days”.
Read moreCreating a Campus Map using the latest geospatial tools
In this session, you’ll discover how the updated University of Edinburgh Campus Map was created using the ArcGIS platform.
Read moreIntroduction to ThingLink: Make Learning Interactive and Fun!
ThingLink is an authoring tool for creating immersive learning experiences. This session will provide an overview of ThingLink’s capabilities, how it works, how to create one, and how to make it open and accessible.
Read moreGif It Up: An Introduction to making gifs
Calling all creative types, history nuts, graphic artists, animators, and lovers of the internet! Learn how to make your own gifs from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials.
Read moreUser Experience design – what it is and how it can help you
This session will cover the fundamentals of UX design, show you how to apply them, and illustrate the benefits of working in a user-centred way.
Read moreAdobe Creative Cloud Express: Introduction
During this session, learn how to create rich multimedia content including social media posts, stories, and marketing materials with ease in only a matter of minutes with Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formally Adobe Spark).
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