Digital Competences through Photography
The first five years of the past decade cloud services emerged and became popular, in the last five years they have been established. In a first stage of growth, the price of GB decreased year after year as the services offered more storage plans at the cost of maintaining the subscription price. A trend that Read More …
Since its inception, Google has added more to its various tools, created a VR version that uses virtual reality, and has even released special collections on commemorative dates. The quarantine caused by the COVID-19 epidemic has left millions of people unable to leave their homes. Here we leave you a leisure option to distract you Read More …
The CICERO project has among its objectives the preservation of cultural heritage through photography. Many times we find black and white images of family, monuments, or shows, and how would they be in color? With this online tool it is already possible to do it automatically (available in more than 30 languages): www.myheritage.com/ Colorize your Read More …
The course was a great opportunity, not only for helping others to learn some of the more essentials digital competences through such a creative tool that is photography, but also for testing our tools to provide this knowledge and to identify both, the strongest and the weakest points of the course. Students were very active, Read More …
Unfortunately, CICERO in Spain, on March 13th we had to suspend in-class teaching due to COVID-19. So Arrabal-AID opened the Moodle platform to all the people who wanted to attend the course through online learning. In order to do this we had to adapt the Moodle course to the circumstances creating a progression system through Read More …
In Spain, the CICERO training course took place on 2020 during the months of February and March, developing by Arrabal-AID. It was attended by 21 people, out of 25 people that enrolled for the course, which means that only 4 people dismissed the course. This group is a reflection of the wide range of targets Read More …
Smartphones offer tools for image editing. Most people do not know them or are not experienced enough to use them. In the CICERO Course, we use PixlR as an app on the smartphone. There exists a web-based tool for tablets or computers as well. Here you see a small example what we are doing with Read More …
The abbreviation JPG (or JPeG) stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Groups” and has been developed in the beginning of digital photography. The image is compressed by using a specific formula (algorithm) to get a smaller file size. The JPG format is a typical lossy image format, this means that some information of the image gets Read More …
In the frame of the CICERO project a special course focusing on Digital Photography is created with a lot of technical background. The experience of this course will increase your technical knowledge and your digital competences as well. Here is a short example: How images are created For images three items are characteristically: the raster Read More …
The learning and training activity – lasting for 5 days has taken place in Porto (from November 1st until November 5th). This training aimed to care for the homogeneous background of the participating organisations. The consortium is built up providing complementary skills and knowledge, which are necessary to execute the active parts of the project. Read More …