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Creation Station Multimedia Production Centers

Purpose

The Creation Station Multimedia Production Centers are designed to provide faculty and students the equipment and support they need to create innovative multimedia research, teaching, and learning projects.

Creation Station Equipment


4 Dell Optiplex GX260s with:

  • 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 Processor
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 80GB IDE Hard Drive
  • DVD-RW/CD-RW Drive
  • 19" Dell Flatpanel Display
  • Radeon 7500 (64MB) Video Card
  • Windows XP Professional

4 Canon CanoScan LiDE 80 Scanners with:

  • film adapter unit for scanning of 35mm negatives

1 Apple Powermac G4 with:

  • Dual 1.2Ghz G4 Processors
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 80GB IDE Hard Drive
  • DVD-RW/CD-RW
  • 17" Apple Studio Display
  • Radeon 9700 (128MB) Video Card
  • Mac OSX 10.2.6

Software unique to the Creation Station Machines:

  • Adobe Creative Suite Premium
  • Adobe AfterEffects for PC
  • Final Cut Pro for Macintosh
  • Omnipage
  • Digital Video Camera software

Why multimedia projects?

Twelve Reasons to Use Multimedia Projects in the Classroom
by Dr. Suzanne Cherry
Assistant Professor, School of Education
Francis Marion University

  1. Multimedia projects motivate students to participate.

  2. Multimedia projects integrate all the language arts -- reading, writing, listening, and speaking across curricular areas.

  3. Multimedia projects build collaboration skills for students.

  4. Multimedia projects create real reasons for reading, writing, and revising communication.

  5. Multimedia projects give students a larger audience than the teacher and the classroom.

  6. Multimedia projects require students to analyze sources and think about evidence in new ways.

  7. Multimedia projects lead teachers to think about their students, classes, and lessons in new ways. Reflection and revision of teaching strategies naturally evolve with the projects.

  8. Multimedia projects require higher order thinking and problem-solving skills. These projects promote non-linear thinking and give divergent learners a chance to shine in the classroom.

  9. Multimedia projects move teachers from the role of lecturer and classroom authority and into the role of learning coach or facilitator. They create student-centered classrooms.

  10. Multimedia projects increase students' literacy and prepares them for the technology-based communication skills required in the workplace today and tomorrow.
  11. Multimedia projects let teachers address multiple intelligences and learning styles in the classroom.

  12. Multimedia projects naturally employ the range of resources and approaches by which most students learn best.

Retrieved by Jeff Liles on April 30, 2003 from "Zoom-ed Classroom" Web site at: http://www.ezedia.com/education/classroom/library/Twelve_Reasons.html

What do multimedia projects look like?

  • Multimedia Projects created by students at St. Edward's University: http://www.stedwards.edu/photocom/3339/spring00/

  • "Scientific and Visual Analysis and Multimedia" Projects created by faculty and students at Virginia Tech: http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/ESM4714/Student_Proj/class96/Class96.html

  • "Video Poetry" projects created by high school students: http://www.isd196.k12.mn.us/Schools/evhs/Academics/Multimedia%20class/projects.htm

  • Assessment for Multimedia Projects: An Idea Book, by Karen Cole of the Institute for Research on Learning. This book walks you through the design and assessment of multimedia projects. It appears to be for K-12 educators, but the planning and assessment seem adaptable: http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/ideabook.pdf.

  • The Molson Medical Informatics Student Projects Site is a rapidly growing collection of multimedia projects in medical teaching. Developed by McGill medical students under the supervision of the McGill Medical Faculty, the projects are intended to supplement the current McGill medical curriculum as well as serve as a continuing source of information for medical professionals, medical educators and patients. Funding has been provided by a grant from the Molson Foundation. The project is supervised by Dr. Michael Rosengarten, Professor of Medicine, McGill University: http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/.

  • The University of San Diego History Department has a link to students' and faculty members' multimedia projects: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/projects/Multimedia.html.

  • Projects created by faculty at Santa Clara University: http://www.scu.edu/faculty/itrs/new_pages/projects.htm.

  • With the support of the National Science Foundation, Professor Samuel Heilman's students at Queen's College are taking urban ethnography to the next stage. Students go into the field with camcorders and laptops, and in addition to text, their papers include stills, video clips, and sound. The final papers are multi-media CDROMS. A shortened version of Anna Sun's work on the visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art exemplifies what can be done: http://www.soc.qc.edu/ethno/.

The Support Team

The team is comprised of the following personnel from Milne Library:

Other Resources

Evaluating Internet Research and Multimedia Projects: