Past Events

Studio for New Media Open House (, from 2007-08-17 10:12 AM to 2007-08-17 10:12 AM)

If you haven't visited the Studio for New Media lately, stop by on Friday morning to tour of the facilities. If you aren't yet a member, you can become one!

Applied Linguistics Colloquium: Erik Voss (213 Ross Hall, from 2007-02-19 09:00 AM to 2007-02-19 09:00 AM)

Studio member Erik Voss will present about a multimedia-based language learning software technology.

Moodle Brown Bag Lunch (The Studio: Ross 316, from 2007-01-19 12:00 PM to 2007-01-19 01:00 PM)

We will be holding the first Moodle Brown Bag Lunch next Friday (January 19) at noon in the Studio for New Media (Ross 316). Bring your lunch and meet up with other faculty members, lecturers, and TAs who have been using Moodle in their classes. We have no set agenda for this event, and there will be no formal presentation to interrupt, so feel free to come and go as your schedule allows. In short, the Studio will be full of a bunch of us eating lunch and sharing tips for using Moodle in a range of English department courses, from first-year composition to graduate-level seminars. If this message, with its overuse of the term Moodle (which my spell-checker has now flagged nine times), has left you slightly bewildered, you can find out more at the English Department's Courses site: http://courses.engl.iastate.edu We hope to see you at the Brown Bag next Friday and on the new email list!

Studio Members Featured on IPTV (KDIN, Channel 11, from 2006-12-11 06:30 PM to 2006-12-11 07:00 PM)

Several members of the English Department were interviewed recently for an Assignment Iowa documentary broadcast on Iowa Public Television.

Flash Interactive Learning Activities (CELT: 1230 Communications Building, from 2006-03-08 01:10 PM to 2006-03-08 04:00 PM)

Create engaging multimedia learning objects for the web, including Flash Basics and the authoring environment user interface; a simple animation; and six different kinds of interactive learning activities.

Showcase: Podcasting at ISU (CELT: 1230 Communications Building, from 2006-02-23 01:10 PM to 2006-02-23 02:30 PM)

Thursday, Feb. 23, from 1:10 to 2:30 PM the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching is sponsoring a very informal forum to showcase campus projects using podcasting for audio and video. The goal is to have a sharing and discussion session so we can see real-world examples of podcasting at ISU and talk about how this technology might evolve to serve the clients of Iowa State. The session will be in 1230 Communications Building.

Using the SNM: How the Studio for New Media Actually Works (316 Ross Hall, from 2006-02-17 12:10 PM to 2006-02-17 01:00 PM)

A brown-bag lunch meeting to be held actually in the Studio for New Media, this session will begin with Geoffrey Sauer showing participants how some of the less-obvious equipment in the Studio works. Included such tools as the DVD-video recorder, software for converting VHS and DVD media to editable formats, examples of how to use less-familiar equipment such as the FireWire and USB switches, the CD/DVD printer, the laptop bay, and the VNC remote networking. After he's shown a few of the less-familiar technologies, other Studio members will be invited to show attendees what *they've* learned to use in the Studio.

Exploring Educational Possibilities with Macromedia Captivate (312 Ross Hall, from 2006-02-03 02:10 PM to 2006-02-03 03:00 PM)

Lily Compton, member of the Studio, will be presenting to the Computer-Assisted Language Learning Club about the multimedia software development package Macromedia Captivate. Please consider attending.

Rewiring the Studio (The Studio Offices, 316 Ross, from 2005-12-02 12:30 PM to 2005-12-02 02:00 PM)

The initial setup for the Studio involved a variety of devices, but in the past semester we've added quite a bit of new technology. And some of the original cables (USB, FireWire, audio and video and power cables) are loose, and tangled, and some of the components are too far from one another to enable reliable digital video and audio work. So I'd like to take apart the wiring for the equipment, and reorganize some of the furniture, and then reassemble things with the wiring more effectively organized, with fewer extension cords and fewer tangled wires. If you'd like to stay to help, it'll be an excellent chance to see how the equipment is actually all connected together.

Home Page Video (The Studio Offices, 316 Ross, from 2005-12-02 12:00 PM to 2005-12-02 12:30 PM)

On Friday at noon, I'd like to videotape briefly about a one-minute shot of the Studio, with people inside working on multimedia projects of various sorts, for use on the Studio home page ( http://newmedia.engl.iastate.edu/ ). You'll notice the current photo is a still shot of our old Carver Hall offices, with the door sign edited in Photoshop to show our new office address. If you look at the websites from some of my past courses ( http://courses.eserver.org/s04/410x/ or http://courses.eserver.org/s04/313/ ) you'll see what I have in mind for this video: about a minute of silent video, which shows a bit of the character of the place. Perhaps some stills may be used in future promotional materials. So please come to the Studio at noon on Friday if you'd like to be in the video. I'll just walk in with the camera, pan around the room briefly. Then I'll do the capture, editing and compression directly afterwards on the Studio Mac, and will post the streaming video to the website, so if you'd like to see how that's done, please feel free to stay and watch/help.

CALL Club Presentation: The Studio (Ross 316, from 2005-11-11 02:00 PM to 2005-11-11 03:15 PM)

Geoffrey Sauer will present to the CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) Club the Studio for New Media, showing the tools and technologies available to members of the Club for their research.

e2: The Emerging Educational Technology Event Series (Parks Library, Room 31, from 2005-11-08 02:00 PM to 2005-11-08 03:30 PM)

Geoff Sauer will hold a presentation highlighting the EServer publishing community The EServer is an arts and humanities online publisher based here at Iowa State, with 227 volunteers worldwide, which publishes over 34,000 works to more than 1 million visitors per month worldwide. After the presentation, the floor will be open for questions and answers and discussion about electronic publishing in general, or EServer projects in particular.

Biomedical Informatics: In-house tool development for skill building and problem solving. (Room 31, University Library , from 2005-10-25 01:00 PM to 2005-10-25 02:30 PM)

Presenter: Jared Danielson Instructional Design and Evaluation Biomedical Informatics Research Group Department of Veterinary Pathology <br><br>Co-Presenters: Vanessa Preast, Rick Mills, Pamela Vermeer, Holly Bender <br><br>Two computer-based instructional products that have been produced by the Biomedical Informatics Research Group (BIRG) at the College of Veterinary Medicine will be presented. One of these products is designed to teach medical diagnostic problem solving - a very complex and difficult diagnostic process that can challenge both novices and practicing clinicians. The second software tool is designed to teach veterinary students how to make blood smears - a simple psychomotor task that similarly can prove challenging to both novices and practitioners. In both cases, empirical and qualitative studies demonstrated that these computer-based tools produced better learning outcomes than similar alternative teaching/learning approaches. Each tool will be demonstrated and described in terms of the theoretical ideas relevant to addressing specific learning needs. Evaluation processes and results also will be discussed.

SNM Brown Bag Lunch: What is the EServer? (420 Ross Hall, from 2005-09-23 12:00 PM to 2005-09-23 01:00 PM)

Do you know what the EServer is? Really? Geoff Sauer will present a public presentation/brown-bag lunch titled "What is the EServer?", in which Sauer will demonstrate the largest online publishing venture in the English Department, the EServer. He will discuss its sixteen-year history, and show examples of the collaborative publishing projects currently underway and planned for the near future. The event is open to anyone interested in attending. After the presentation, the floor will be open for questions and answers and discussion about electronic publishing. The EServer is an arts and humanities online publisher, with 227 volunteers worldwide, which publishes over 34,000 works to more than 1 million visitors per month worldwide. It is ranked by Alexa, the division of Amazon.com that rates website popularity, as the most popular humanities website in the world.