Archive for September, 2007

Brief Late Night Network/Phone Outages

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

A number of short, late night network maintenance activities will occur in conjunction with Fall break.
On Friday, October 5 at 11:30 PM there will be a 10-20 minute outage of network, phones and wireless in the following buildings: Robinson House, Lang Music and Dana.
On Friday, October 12 at 11:30 PM there will be a 10-20 [...]

Media Services now recording video in HD

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

When Media Services Technicians Mike Bednarz and Dave Neal shoot video of Dance, Theater, and College events, they’re now using high definition (HD) video cameras. The change in format allows Media Services to create better quality video that will keep up with changes in expectations from viewers in the future.
Media Services has two Sony mini-DV [...]

New and Updated Equipment and Software in the Faculty Resource Room

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Academic Computing has recently updated most of the software and equipment in the Faculty Resource Room. Last year we introduced new Mac Pro workstations for video editing with 30 inch Cinema Displays, dual DVD writing drives and Final Cut Pro Suite, all connected to almost 7 Terabytes of storage via high speed Fibre-channel connections [...]

Communications & ITS launch new Campus Calendar

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Over the summer, Communications and ITS worked together to create a web-based Campus Calendar for publicizing campus events.
See this recent article in The Phoenix for details.

Classrooms get brighter video projectors

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Over the summer, Media Services worked with contractor Total Video Products to install new video projectors in various classrooms around campus. The new Sony projectors are 15% brighter than the model they replace.
With brighter projectors, instructors will be better able to project video images on the screen while keeping a greater number of lights on [...]