Multimedia studio available to students

Studio-D, also called the Digital Projects Studio, is a new

multimedia lab in Academic Technologies where students can create,

develop, and produce digital media for class assignments. The

studio is available to enhance learning through the creative

potential of digital media.

The lab allows students to do assignments involving Web pages,

digital video, PowerPoint presentations, flyers and posters, and

multimedia CD-ROMs. The lab also has unique software allowing

students to illustrate difficult concepts in math, geography, and

geology in order to strengthen visual learning. There is a

separate, private room offered in the lab for group projects where

students can brainstorm.

Natalie Salvatore is an instructional designer for Academic

Technologies. “Studio-D grew out of a need for students to

have somewhere to go to complete digital-media assignments.

Instructors who want to include a creative media element to their

assignments now have a place to send students,” said

Salvatore.

Studio-D opened October 1 and is the first lab of this kind on

campus. Student technology assistants are available in the studio

to help students get up and running quickly with the software.

Quick-start guides are also available to assist students in how to

use the technology.

To achieve the full potential of the lab, Academic Technologies is

looking into offering student workshops on the basics of software

used in digital-media production. Workshops of this kind are

currently offered to faculty; however, with the opening of

Studio-D, a growing need for student workshops is likely to

arise.

“When a student comes into the lab, they will be asked to

provide the name of their instructor and what class the project is

for in order to verify they are working on a class project,”

said Salvatore. Salvatore also noted, “Ideally, instructors

will be contacting us ahead of time with information about the

media assignment. That way, the instructor’s students will

already be in our database and we can be expecting them.”

Studio-D is a multimedia computer lab specifically for creating

digital media for class assignments and is not for checking e-mail

or word processing.

 

You can find more information about Studio-D at

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Thank you for the link Aaron

Rachel Perez
News Writer

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