Information Services

The Digital Curriculum Center provides faculty with a rich array of resources and support for the creation of digital assets (PDF, graphics, audio, and video) for the purpose of direct curriculum support. We have both the equipment and personnel to help create a variety of projects.

The DCC was funded by a grant from the Keel Foundation, and opened in the summer of 2000. It is located in Blaustein 108. The DCC is generally open from 9 am through 5 pm, Monday through Friday. If you need to use the center at a specific time, or need assistance with your project, we suggest you first call x5006 to ensure we are available.

• Our graphics computers feature slide scanners, flatbed scanners (with and without document feeders), a large tabloid-size flatbed scanner, and CD-R burners. Software includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Director, Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
  
  
• Our equipment for audio and video acquisition includes one digital still camera, two digital video cameras, one Digital Audio Tape recorder (DAT), one high-end cassette tape recorder, in addition to a variety of wired and wireless mics, mixers, headphones, tripods, and lights.
  
  
• We have a variety of computer-based audio and video editing equipment. Our audio rack includes a turntable, DAT, cassette recorder, and CD player. Material from any of these sources can be digitized and edited using ProTools, and then compressed for web delivery, or archived to CD-ROM.
  
  
• Our video rack includes playback devices for 3/4” tape, VHS/S-VHS tape, PAL/SECAM tape, DVD, miniDV/DVCam, and laserdisc. Video from these sources can often be enhanced using a TBC and waveform monitor/vectorscope, before being routed to one of our three video editing computers, with over 500 gigabytes of storage. Here the video is digitized and then edited using Premiere or Final Cut Pro. The video can be compressed to QuickTime, MPEG1 or MPEG2 for campus delivery from our video servers, or can be recorded back to videotape or CD-ROM. We now also have the capability of creating our own DVDs.

Need help operating the equipment in the DCC?

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