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Faculty Resource Center South Campus G-321A Purpose of Center Enable faculty to use technology to Enhance student learning Prepare students for success in the global information age What is it? State of the art computer facility on South Campus for faculty use Faculty side:
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Faculty Resource Center South Campus G-321A
Purpose of Center Enable faculty to use technology to • Enhance student learning • Prepare students for success in the global information age
What is it? • State of the art computer facility on South Campus for faculty use Faculty side: • 4 fabulous computers with all of the latest versions of software
What is it? • State of the art computer facility on South Campus for faculty support Production Side: • Terrific video/sound editing configuration to support faculty development of instructional materials
What can you do there? • Learn and use new software • Scan photos/documents • Print with color laser printer • Obtain assistance with: • Video editing • Sound recording/editing • Photo editing
Image Acquisition Equipment For faculty use: • Digital Video Camera • Digital Still Camera
Adobe Photoshop 7 • Edit photos • Design graphics for your classroom. Adobe photoshop/ Meniscus
Adobe Audition • AKA Cool Edit Pro • Record and edit sound files • http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html Meniscus
Macromedia MX Studio http://macromedia.com/ Dreamweaver • Develop web pages • Publish the web pages to the web.fccj.edu server Fireworks • Develop graphics for web delivery • Build cool buttons for your web pages
Macromedia - Flash • Develop animations for web delivery • Small file sizes since it uses vector graphics. http://web.fccj.org/~ksanchez/flash/Measurements/stoi3.html
Adobe Acrobat • http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ • Convert files to portable document format (pdf) files • Advantage: • Smaller file size • Cross platform • Prints perfectly unlike Word documents which are font dependent • Can imbed links • Can lock document stunts10.pdf
Impatica for PowerPoint • Compresses PowerPoint files to files suitable for streaming over the internet. • Advantages: • Small file sizes (95% smaller than PPT files saved for web) • Completely cross platform • Easy to use Chapter 10 • http://www.impatica.com/imp4ppt/
Impatica on Cue • Synchronize video with PPT • Searchable text • Built in indexes and navigation • Distribute short lectures over the web or longer lectures on DVD. • No plug-ins required! • http://www.impatica.com/
Who will help you learn? • Small group workshops • Lantz Baum • ACID staff • FCCU
Software for your own workstation • Frequently use software in the Faculty Resource Center (FRC) • Produce instructional materials • Request license for your computer from your dean
Purpose of Center Enable faculty to use technology to • Enhance student learning • Prepare students for success in the global information age