Digital Communications  An overview of the importance of Digital Communications and their application to teaching and learning. Digital Media Collections Here at MCC we can assist faculty in identifying digital media resources for use in teaching and learning, here are some sample resources: Video On Demand is a powerful way to engage your students using digital video. Here at MCC we now have 262 titles available On Demand, contact Brian Richards ( x 2618) for details of how to access this service. The Open Video Project has over 4000 items in it's shared video collection available for download and use under the fair use copyright guidelines the Research Channel has over 3500 full length educational programs available in the Video Library, and new releases are added each week. Watch anytime using Windows Media Player at your preferred bandwidth - modem, dsl or cable. Google Video is developing a video search service that will search the closed captioning text of TV programs and display short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. A side panel let's you know when the show will air next. UC Berkeley is now distributing lectures via Google Video. MIC Moving Image Collections is a great research tool that brings togther information from a wide range of sources. The Internet Archive aims to provide "Univeral Access to Human Knowledge" and is amassing a staggering array of resources including archives of the World Wide Web, Moving Images, Text, Audio and Software. The WikiMedia Commons is a database of more than 5 million media files, that anyone can contribute to. The ARTstor Digital Library of over 1,000,000 digital images and associated catalog data -  to access this online database click here. Recent additions include over 1000 QTVR 360 degree panoramas. The Library of Congress series 'The Digital Future', originally broadcast by C-SPAN, examines how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. This series of eight broadcasts may be viewed online via steaming media. Creating Digital Media We can assist faculty in preparing and using Digital Media in teaching and learning. We have facilities for preparing and processing a wide range of digital media, including Digital Photography, Digital Video and QuickTime Virtual Tours. The ID Studio is equipped with Final Cut Pro and iMovie for Non-Linear Digital Editing and compression software which enables the production of a variety of Digital Media including Streaming Media, Quicktime VR movies, DVDs and CD-ROMs. JISC Digital Media Overiew and Advice on Digital Media - cover all aspects of using and creating digital media resources for teaching and learning. They also run an Online Surgery - a series of webinars on aspects for working with Digital Media. An introduction to the creative process of putting together your own digital video or moving images can be found at http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/scienceeducators_portal/sci_creatmi.htm. Digital Photography For free introductory courses on Digital Photography and Digital Cameras try http://www.shortcourses.com/  7 Excellent Open Courseware Collections for Digital Photographers You can create your own Digital Slide Shows with Picasa 3 software or PhotoStory for Windows. These programs are free and great tools for creating slide-shows and presentations, while Picasa is  also good for managing and organizing your collection of digital images and small movie files. Documentary Photography: A multimedia CAL program to teach the analysis of documentary photography. "Making Sense of Documentary Photography," by James Curtis, from History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, 2003.This also includes an extensive resource list of Documentary Photography Online. Guides to Good Practice in the creation, management and use of electronic resources in teaching and learning the visual arts Screen Casting software allows you to create tutorials with audio narration that capture all the activity on the screen. This is ideal for demonstrating how to use a particular feature or tool in a software package. An Introduction to Screen Capture and Screen Casting in Education and how to download and use the free JING software. Digital Media Demonstrations The following Digital Media files were produced in house and are best viewed with a broadband internet connection. There are three different players for viewing streaming media; QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player and Real Media Player. Generally each of these player will only play streaming media encoded for that particular player. See the 'Building Foundations For the Future' example for files encoded for each player. Click on the links below to see examples of streaming media produced, edited and compressed in-house. NJCATE TechXploration Project MCC Interactive CD NJCATE on Channel 12 - Robotics Workshop for Teachers Building Foundations for the Future ( QuickTime Movie ) ( Real ) MCC 35th Annual Commencement ( QuickTime Slide Show ) MCC Campus Panoramic View (QuickTime VR Panorama) (When you see the image click on it, hold and move mouse to rotate through the panoramic view, use shift and ctrl keys to zoom in and out). Anatomy - Skull (QuickTimeVR Object) (When you see the image click on it, hold and move mouse to rotate through the object view, use shift and ctrl keys to zoom in and out). Sony Digital Video Camera (QuickTimeVR Object) (When you see the image click on it, hold and move mouse to rotate through the object view, use shift and ctrl keys to zoom in and out). Streaming Media Player Downloads There are free versions of each player available for download as follows: QuickTime Player may be downloaded from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ Windows Media Player may be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/ Real Media Player may be downloaded from: http://www.real.com/realoneplayer.html For further details about any aspect of using digital media in teaching and learning please contact Brian Richards on: Tel:  (732) 906 2618  Fax: (732) 906 7702 E-Mail Brian_Richards@middlesexcc.edu