New Media Center Update: Lab Open, Classroom Due This Fall

Katie Livingston

The New Media Center Development Lab in N42-013 has been up and running since February. The purpose of the Development Lab is to provide tools for faculty, staff, or students who need to create multimedia materials related to instruction. Individuals can work here on projects such as converting course notes into Portable Document Format (PDF files), frame-grabbing images from videotape to use in a report, archiving class projects on CD-ROM, or digitizing and editing photographs or VHS video for a Web page. Use of the Lab is free, and staff provide training on the hardware and software.

The Development Lab has four Power Macintoshes and an assortment of equipment for multimedia creation. Facilities include a scanner, video digitizing system, CD-ROM recorder, and a digital still camera, plus software for image editing, movie producing, audio editing, and 3D drafting. The Lab is available during business hours by appointment only.

For more information about the Lab, check the MIT New Media Center home page at http://web.mit.edu/nmc.

New Media Center Classroom
A New Media Center classroom is being built in Room 26-139, and should be open by fall. This room will contain 13 computers (with CD-ROM and Zip drives), a scanner, video digitizing equipment, and a large-screen monitor for displaying material from the instructor's station. Faculty who would like to teach in this facility should contact Katie Livingston at x3-6690 or <katiel@mit.edu>. Watch for the grand opening this fall.

Summer Conference
The New Media Centers Summer Conference was held at MIT, Wellesley, and Emerson College from June 17­20. Session topics included streaming media, use of the Web for distance learning, new development tools from Macromedia and Adobe, and an introduction to the Apple iMac computer. You can view the full conference program online at http://www.csulb.edu/~newmedia/SumConfMain.html.