The Digiknow blog post from last week looked at: OneNote in Education. OneNote Class Notebook is great for creating and disseminating content to students. A variety of media can be use in student learning. This week, DigiKnow will look at the role of discussion to help engage students. Initially, we Read more…
In the last two weeks, DigiKnow has provided you with information on some basic features of Photoshop: Basic Editing (automatic colour fixing, crop and straightening) along with Colour, Cleaning and Layers. Thus far, everything you do applies to the whole of the image or layer, rather than a part of Read more…
In last weeks post, DigiKnow covered some basic editing of images via Photoshop and provided some detail about popular file types, resolution and output. We hope you found this useful. In this weeks post, DigiKnow will look more at controlling colour corrections/enhancement, cleaning images and we’ll introduce you to the Read more…
Over the last number of weeks, DigiKnow has written a number of blogs on different photography elements: composition and automatic mode, Program Mode: exposure compensation and white balance, depth of field and aperture, shutter speeds (aperture/shutter relationship) and a number of shutter speed techniques: zoom burst and painting with light, Read more…
Last week, DigiKnow looked at two slow shutter techniques: ghosting and double exposures. These techniques used slow shutters and tripods. With both techniques the camera was static whilst subjects moved. In this weeks post, we continue with another two techniques that use slow shutter speeds: panning (background or motion blur) Read more…
Over the last few weeks, we have concentrated on making images, compositions, Automatic and some features in Program Mode (exposure compensation and white balance). Continuing along the theme of making images, this week, we look at Depth of Field, what it is and how to achieve it when making images. Read more…
In this tutorial, DigiKnow looks at USB Voice recorders and how to use them. Please have a look through the guide. There is a downloadable guide towards the end. Getting started Plug the USB Voice recorder in to a computer to charge it. When the pilot lamp turns blue, it’s Read more…
Yesterday, DigiKnow posted two blogs on Teaching at a Distance – MS Teams and Recording Lectures in PowerPoint. Teaching and meetings at a distance are made easier using MS Teams (via Office 365). Here’s a few tips to help teachers and staff using MS Teams. Be sensible Teachers – take Read more…
This method of lecture capture allows the recording of audio and slides together and then share this with students. It’s not a live broadcast and lectures can be used again. Before you begin Here you will be using PowerPoint to capture lecture content. To share the content, we’ll cover how Read more…
Last week, we looked at Image Composition and Automatic Mode. Digiknow continues the theme of making images by providing another two compositions and introducing you to two changeable features using the Program Mode. Let’s get started! Compositions Symmetry Symmetry is interesting and can be used horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Think Read more…