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Multimedia Services

Educational Technology

IT staff work with faculty and students, who wish to use analog and digital multimedia in their courses or research projects. Training, storage, and access needs are addressed at the outset of a project. Laptops, digital still and video cameras, projectors, tripods, and other equipment are available for short-term loans (Equipment Loans) to enable faculty, staff, and students to work on their projects. In addition, multimedia labs are available and can be reserved so that faculty and students can edit and assemble their projects.

Presentations and Projection:

Microsoft's PowerPoint (digital presentation software) is available on all of the IT lab computers. With PowerPoint faculty and students can create slide shows that include text, images, video, and music.

In addition, Macromedia Director and Macromedia Flash are available in the IT Multimedia Lab in Coles Tower Room 2 West. Both tools allow faculty and students to design multimedia applications using video, audio, text, and images that can be delivered over the Internet. Director requires the Macromedia Shockwave Player, while Flash requires the Macromedia Flash Player.

3D Studio Max, which is only available in Druckenmiller 024, is a tool that allows faculty and students to create high-end animations and 3D models for the Internet, film, television, and games.

IT offers training sessions for the above applications. Please check the IT Training Schedule to learn more about the offerings.

When it comes time to present your projects, slide projectors and data video projection units for use in classroom settings are available from AV Services. In addition, these portable units are available for general loan through the IT loaning center. Please see the Equipment Loan page for more information.

Storing and Transferring Multimedia Files:

The IT Multimedia Lab in Coles Tower Room 2 West has 13 public CD burning stations that allow video, sound, images, and files to be transferred to CD-R media. Using DVD-R media and Apple's iDVD software, faculty and students can transfer analog and digital materials to DVD. (The Language Media Center provides this service as well.) Please note that all duplication must comply with U.S. and Bowdoin copyright guidelines. Both faculty and students must provide their own blank CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, which are available at the Bowdoin bookstore.

IT will provide network storage for research and course-related projects as well as other work done as part of the curriculum. Space on an IT server will be made available to faculty, who are including a web-based or multimedia component in their course, as well as their enrolled students. In addition, faculty supervising students working on independent study and honors projects can request space for their students.

In addition to server space, faculty and students working on a project as part of the curriculum will have access to removable storage devices (zip drives, CD-RW, DVD-RW, Firewire hard drives, etc.). MiniDV tapes, zip disks, and rewritable CDs are available at the Bowdoin bookstore.