Faculty Resource Center

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Faculty Resource Center

• South Campus
• G-321A

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Purpose of Center

• Enable faculty to use technology to
• Enhance student learning
• Prepare students for success in the global
  information age

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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

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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

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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

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Image Acquisition Equipment

• For faculty use
• Digital Video Camera
• Digital Still Camera

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Adobe Photoshop 7

• Edit photos
• Design graphics for your classroom.

Adobe photoshop/
Meniscus
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Adobe Audition

• AKA Cool Edit Pro
• Record and edit sound files
• http//www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html

Meniscus
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Macromedia MX Studio

• 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

http//macromedia.com/
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Macromedia - Flash

• Develop animations for web delivery
• Small file sizes since it uses vector graphics.

http//web.fccj.org/ksanchez/flash/Measurements/s
toi3.html
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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
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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

http//www.impatica.com/imp4ppt/
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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/

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Who will help you learn?

• Small group workshops
• Lantz Baum
• ACID staff
• FCCU

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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

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Purpose of Center

• Enable faculty to use technology to
• Enhance student learning
• Prepare students for success in the global
  information age