Digital Tools for historians workshop (Thursday 21 June 2012)

History SPOT will soon be home to training modules from the IHR Digital project (funded by JISC) HISTORE.  This project is developing short modules introducing various digital tools that might be of use to historians.  For instance, I’m currently working on the...

A Day in the life of History SPOT

I have been writing this blog ever since I took on History SPOT for the IHR over two years ago.  It took me a while to find my feet as I had never created or written a blog before.  My remit was to make the blog more interesting than just relaying update reports which...

History SPOT and the Easter holidays

I’ll be taking a nice long Easter break this year which means, I’m afraid, no updates to this blog or to the History SPOT site for a week.  Nonetheless there’s still plenty here to have a look at and much more on its way. Buried deep within the IHR...

Filming the IHR: A Campaign video

Containing from my musings about editing seminar live streams and podcasts as video in a previous post  I thought I would discuss a more recent leap in my education on how to film and edit video. The first video that I was required to design from scratch and to a...

Seminars on Film – a fast learning curve in video production

When I first came to the IHR two years ago I had to learn pretty fast all about podcasting – how to use the recorder, post-production, metadata and so forth.  I quickly learnt the first rule of audio recording – get the audio volume clear whilst recording as there is...