The Media Center will be running on Summer hours starting Monday May 16th.
Hours will be:
M-F 8:30am-4:30pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Category: News & Events (Page 11 of 12)
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From the people who didn’t bring you “The Walking Dead” and “Shaun of the Dead” comes an all-student written, directed, photographed, and edited film starring many of the people you see around campus every day, but with less make-up on. Produced on less than a micro-budget, and filmed somehow in defiance of final exams and papers, this horror movie is already a cult favorite. Don’t miss its planetary premiere.
OPENING THURSDAY, MAY 19th AT 9 P.M. IN ALTHOUSE 106
ADVANCE REVIEWS!
“Dudes, this film scared the **** out of me!”
–Freddy Kruger
“Who are these guys? I’m gonna sue their butts off!”
–George Romero
“Jeez, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’ve seen every film ever made.”
–Quentin Tarantino
Wow! Sounds amazing. I’m so there. (Hopefully we will see YOU there too!)
Join professor Warfield’s Digital Film Production class on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 in the Althouse Film Viewing room (106) at 8pm for the Dickinson Student Short Film Festival.
These students have camped out in the Media Center all semester and we can’t wait to see the fruits of their labor. We are also happy they will be able to rest like normal people again after their films are completed. Kudos to them all!
Professor Sarah Bair’s Educational Psychology students will be presenting their wiki projects in a 2 day showcase May 3rd & 4th. They will be presenting their research through the wikis they created in an open event in the Stern Great Room from 4:00-5:15pm on both days. Instructional & Media Services has worked with Sarah on many projects over the last few years and her students always work hard on these projects so we are expecting a series of informative presentations. We hope to see you there!
Instructional & Media Service’s own Jim Ciarrocca, will hold a GIS Exposition and Poster Symposium to showcase his students work from the semester. This is the second year for this event and to say that it is impressive is an understatement. The students create giant, detailed posters capturing hours of field work data collection and analysis and funneling them into a beautiful, informative displays. We hope to see you all there!
The Advanced GIS students at Dickinson College will be presenting a GIS Exposition and Poster Symposium on Monday, May 9, 2011, from 9:00am—12:00noon in the HUB Social Hall East. The exposition will showcase a variety of projects conducted by the students that demonstrate GIS (geographic information systems) methods to investigate and analyze spatial problems of varying complexity.
Included in the symposium will be posters illustrating the use of GIS across a wide variety of disciplines, including environmental assessment, archaeology, geology, food distribution, watershed monitoring, and landscape management. The exposition will also include informational displays and hands-on demonstrations highlighting other aspects of GIS and spatial literacy.
The exposition is free and open to the public, so attendees are welcome to come and go as their schedule allows – no need for reservations. The students will be available for discussion throughout the 3-hour session. Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please email gis@dickinson.edu or call 717-245-1978
Learn more about GIS at dickinson by going HERE!
We had the pleasure of working with Professor Amy Wlodarski again this semester and her class will be showcasing their work during an electronic performance open to the public. Sounds like a hoot and we hope a lot of people show up to enjoy the show!
On Thursday, April 28th, Music 102 will present their annual performances of John Cage’s composition, Circus On: A Means for Translating a Book into a Performance Without Actors, a Performance which is both Literary and Musical or One or the Other (1979). The students, in compositional teams of major and non-majors, have each selected a book to translate into a chance-determined musical soundscape (complete with original poetry) according to Cage’s meticulous score.
The four compositions will last ten minutes each and will be preceded by a short preface. They are electronic compositions, so please do not expect live performances. In some cases, the outcomes are dramatic and lively. In others, the outcomes are subdued and sparse. Laughter, outrage, dismissal, and fun are all appropriate responses. As Cage once famously said, “I would rather people laugh at my pieces than cry.”
The students have worked hard for three weeks to execute these compositions, including studying Cage’s writings and authoring a manifesto explaining all of their creative and aesthetic decisions. As such, the compositions are not random but highly-controlled sound spaces in which space is translated into time and events in the book into creative sonic forms according to objective or chance-determined criteria.
The performances will be held in Weiss 235 and will begin promptly at 1:30pm. Should you join us later, please slip in the back door of the classroom.
Image by tribalicious on flickr http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/185151669_b9cb263130_z.jpg?zz=1
Please note our hours for the remainder of the Spring Semester. This is only for the equipment office and the main hallway, microroom, collaboration station will remain open when the building is open. The building closes at 11pm each night so you will need to be in by that point in order to work late on your projects. The podcast rooms and studio are available when the equipment office is open. You may check out the room and use it after the equipment office closes although you are responsible for the room, all equipment in it and making sure the room is closed and locked when you leave.
If you have any questions, please contact mediacenter@dickinson.edu or call 245.1223.
Monday – Thursday:
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Friday:
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday:
12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday:
12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Are you awesome? Like technology? Interact well with human beings? Can you show up to work on time? Want to learn some new things? If yes, you should apply for the Media Center Assistant position!
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Please join Professors Lullo, Humphreys, Hoefler, Schubert and Fratantuono for a brown bag lunch session of the TCWW as they discuss how and why they incorporated video projects into their courses.
You’ll see short clips of student-created videos and have an opportunity to discuss questions such as:
• Why did you decide to include a video project in your class?
• How did this project lend itself to the learning goals of your class?
• Did the video project augment or replace an existing project?
• Was the project modeled after a project you saw elsewhere?
• What was the level of effort required by both you and your students?
• How did you assess the video project?
The presenters have experience with incorporating a variety of video genres such as promotional videos, video blogs, interviews/documentaries, video mini-lectures and video demonstrations. Please bring a lunch and join us for what promises to be a lively discussion.
Michael Fratantuono – International Business & Management
Professor Jim Hoefler – Policy Studies
Policy & Management Senior Seminar students compose DVDs for non-profit organizations in the local community.
Professor Sherri Lullo – Asian Art History
ARTH 110: Introduction to the Arts of Asia
Topic: Japanese Print from Trout Gallery
Using narration over images. Created using IMovie & series of images from Trout Gallery of Creative Commons files.
Students were each assigned a piece of Asian Art held by the college’s Trout Gallery and used the Ken Burns effect to display images of the piece while telling the story of it’s history.
Professor: Sheri Lullo-Art History
Course:ARTH 110: Introduction to the Arts of Asia
Full list of videos can be seen here
Gathering Pines Japanese Print
Professor Dan Schubert – Health Studies
Dan’s students work with AIDS organizations to record oral histories from people who are HIV positive. They then compile these into a final production to give back to the AIDS organizations they partnered with.
Professor Kristi Humphreys – Chemistry
Professor David Warfield in his documentary film class
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