February 11, 2008
Free Range Video Contest
The 4th Annual Free Range Video Contest is now underway. This year we are partnering with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and are pleased to announce that our theme is, "Politics Now!" The contest is open to all UTK students, faculty and staff at any skill level.
The theme is open to your interpretation and can be about politics at any level ranging from the home to work to local community to national and even international politics. We all encounter politics everywhere in life and this is a chance for you to tell us what you think about politics! So, make your voice heard. Check out the contest website for contest details and to register!
The Studio can provide video equipment for checkout. Additionally, we provide video editing workstations with software and instruction classes for using video software. Take a look at The Studio website for resources you can use to make your project.
Posted by Michelle at 09:59 AM
December 12, 2007
Free Range Video Contest
The 4th Annual Free Range Video Contest is now underway. This year we are partnering with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and are pleased to announce that our theme is, "Politics Now!" The contest is open to all UTK students, faculty and staff at any skill level.
The theme is open to your interpretation and can be about politics at any level ranging from the home to work to local community to national and even international politics. We all encounter politics everywhere in life and this is a chance for you to tell us what you think about politics! So, make your voice heard. Check out the contest website for contest details and to register!
The Studio can provide video equipment for checkout. Additionally, we provide video editing workstations with software and instruction classes for using video software. Take a look at The Studio website for resources you can use to make your project.
Posted by Michelle at 11:09 AM
March 12, 2007
FreeRange Contest Registration and Submission Deadline Extended
The deadline to register for and submit videos for the 3rd Annual Free Range Video Contest has been extended to Monday, March 26. Check our website for details.
In other contest news, we now have 3 new sponsors, Apple Computer, the UC Computer Store, and SellMyTimeshareNow.com. It looks like we'll have another round of great prizes including iPod shuffles, software and even a cash prize this year.
If you haven't yet registered for the contest but you have something to say about the state of the environment we encourage you to register now. The contest is open to students, faculty and staff on the UT Knoxville campus.
Posted by Michelle at 03:48 PM
January 03, 2007
eCycle event Saturday, January 13th
Visit the Plug-In to Your Community website for information about their upcoming eCycle day. They are offering a drop off recycling program on Saturday, January 13th at the Staples on Town and Country Circle (Cedar Bluff area).
This one day free eCycle event collects old computers, laptops, parts, peripherals, TVs, and a few other electronic items. All of these items have hazardous materials and should not be disposed of with your regular garbage. This event provides the community with the opportunity to properly recycle these items.
Posted by Michelle at 08:44 AM
October 04, 2006
Free Range Video Contest - Registration Open
Registration is now open for this year's Free Range Video Contest.
The theme this year is Make Orange Green
Do you have an environmental practice you want to share?
Are there environmental issues on campus that you want to explore?
Are there things you can recommend that we can all do to help the environment?
Do you like making video?
Would you like to make your voice heard?
If you answered yes to any of these, consider registering to participate in the Free Range Video Contest. The Studio can help create an entry by providing cameras and equipment you can checkout, video editing workstations and instruction and assistance along the way.
Posted by Michelle at 10:54 AM
September 06, 2006
Free Range Video Contest: Make Orange Green
The Studio is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our Third Annual Free Range Video Contest. We will be working with the Make Orange Green campaign this year and the screening will be a part of the campus Earth Day festivities. Check our website soon for contest registration and details.
Posted by Michelle at 04:53 PM
April 05, 2006
Talk on Games in Higher Education This Friday (4/7/06)
OIT's series of talks on games in higher education concludes this Friday,
April 7, with Nora Barry from Druid Media, who will be speaking via
videoconferencing on "Descent to the Underworld." "Descent" is a
multi-national collaborative film project that brings together students
via Internet2 and its international partners from Asia, Europe, and South
America to create their own version of the Orpheus myth. The event will be
held from 12:30-1:30 pm in Hodges Auditorium, and is free and open to the
public.
Nora Barry is a creator, producer and curator of networked Internet video
events, web cinema and online digital media art. Barry curated an exhibit,
A History of Web Cinema, for the international show, Future Cinema, at the
Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Germany, and wrote a
chapter for the book which accompanied the exhibit, "Telling Tales Online:
A History of Web Cinema." She also wrote "Digital Shanachies" for the Ars
Electronica text, "Takeover: Who's Doing the Art of Tomorrow."
Posted by Michelle at 04:52 PM
February 14, 2006
Video Conference this Friday
Katie Livingston Vale, the Director of the MIT New Media Center, will
speak live via videoconference on Friday, February 17, at 12:30 pm in
Hodges Auditorium. Her topic is "An Instructional Designer Looks at World
of Warcraft." This is the second in a five-part series on games and game
design in higher education presented by ITC and SunSITE. The event is free
and open to the public.
World of Warcraft is an online multiplayer game known for its immersive
and engaging qualities. Within the game environment, players can explore
geography, commerce, teamwork, community-building, conflict and
problem-solving. In the context of the game, players amass and process a
large and varied amount of information, and must recall that information
in order to progress further within the game. They also receive a variety
of rewards and feedback, both from the game and from peers playing with
them. This research will survey players of World of Warcraft to determine
what the game might teach education professionals about peer learning,
exploratory learning, and engagement and feedback strategies.
Posted by Michelle at 09:27 AM
January 17, 2006
Second Annual Free Range Video Contest
The Studio is pleased to announce our Second Annual Free Range Video Contest to be held during the Spring Semester 2006. The theme this year is Perspectives.
The contest is open to all UT Knoxville students, faculty and staff. Registration ends March 6. A festival night will complete the contest in April and prizes will be awarded. For event details and registration, please see our website.
Posted by Michelle at 02:18 PM
April 21, 2004
Apple and DigiDesign: Motivated by Music Tour
Apple and Digidesign have partnered to offer a "Motivated by Music Tour". This 20 city tour (one stop's in Nashville on May 20) is designed to demonstrate how Apple's software Logic, Soundtrack and Garage Band integrates with Digidesign's ProTools|HD.
Related Library Resources
Computer Sound Processing
Posted by admin at 07:46 AM
March 31, 2004
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY: TRANSFORMATION OF THE ACADEMY COLLOQUY
FlashMX 2004 has some great improvements (and some problems). ITC is hosting a talk with Dr. Guidry on some the new features of the latest release of Flash. Click here to browse the library catalog for flash resources.
Thursday, 1 April, 3:30-4:30 pm, 221 University Center
Topic: "New Tools for Educational Technology: Object-Oriented
Components and Streaming Video in Flash MX 2004 Pro"
Facilitator: Dr. Mike Guidry
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Center for Advanced Educational Technology
Mike will provide an overview of "the rather remarkable advances"
associated with the newest version of Macromedia Flash: MX2004
Professional. These include:
1. New streaming media capabilities that allow video (with audio) to
be streamed to the SWF file while it is playing and controlled
(independent of the main Flash timeline) just like any other Flash
resource. This has almost unlimited potential application and finally
puts video on an equal footing with everything else that Flash can do.
2. New data-binding classes that allow one to connect data fields of
components so that if a value changes in one it is automatically
updated in the other. These can be implemented with almost no
actionscript, and can bind components within an application as well as
bind components in a Flash application to variables across a network
in a database. We have done these kinds of things before using
relatively advanced actionscript. They can now be done better and
with very little actionscript (mostly just clicking selections in the
Flash interface).
3. The old Flash 5 Smartclips, which matured as Components in Flash
MX, have really matured in MX 2004 Pro. There are now 30 very well
developed and documented Components that ship with Pro (and many
others available from 3rd parties). They do everything from screen
widgetry to data binding to streaming video, and they do it really
well. A Flash novice can now implement with a few clicks things that
required days of advanced Actionscript programming under Flash MX.
To demonstrate the power of MX2004 Pro, he wrote a single Flash
program that uses all 30 Components (!) in a non-trivial way at least
once, with heavy commenting in the Actionscript so that the Flash file
provides a documented example of how to use each Component. You can
view the SWF of this file to get an overview of what the MX2004 Pro
components are capable of, and get the .fla source file with example
code for programming all these components, at
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/MX2004Demo/
Posted by admin at 10:03 AM
March 24, 2004
"My Appalachia"
MFA Thesis Exhibition for Trisha Brady
March 26 - April 2, 2004
University of TN School of Art
Ewing Gallery in the Art & Architecture Building
This show features image and video work from Trisha Brady, a graduate student in the Media Arts Program.
Video showings of "Little Pigeon", a short film, will be March 27 at 7pm and 8pm.
Reception will be March 27, 6-9PM
Posted by Michelle at 11:16 AM