TechInfo

It’s that time of year again for setting up your course space in iTunes U! Please email the name of your course, the course number and the CRN (from Banner) to Tera Doty-Blance ( Tera.Doty-Blance@cortland.edu)as soon as possible so we can get your rooms set up. If you have already sent in your course information, we thank you very much and your course will be created shortly.

For those that are assigning podcasts to students, Library Production Staff are available for classroom presentations on podcast production (mac or pc, audio, enhanced or video), either in your classroom or lab (if lab time/space is available). If you are interested, please send a request to Jennifer Kronenbitter ( hooverj@cortland.edu ).

For those that are new to iTunesU, attendance of two workshops – one in course management and one in podcast production – is required before your course can be created in iTunesU. Watch for the monthly Technology Training Center calendars, sent via email. If you would like to register for one on oen training, please contact the Technology Trainer

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
Tera.Doty-Blance@cortland.edu
http://library.cortland.edu/ttc/training_center.asp

Click here to download a pdf with screenshots of step by step instructions on how to create an enhanced podcast with Garageband from a PowerPoint Presentation.  This hand out includes:

• Creating a New PowerPoint Presentation File
• Guidelines for Creating the PowerPoint Presentation
• Saving and Printing the PowerPoint Presentation
• Converting the PowerPoint Slides to Images
• Starting Garageband and Configuring Audio Input on the Mac
• Recording Your Narration in Garageband
• Importing the Images of the PowerPoint Presentation Slides into Garageband
• Exporting a Podcast Ready Copy of Your Presentation from Garageband.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
dotyblancet@cortland.edu

This semester, there are several classes that have been assigned video projects in iMovie.  Click here to download the iMovie 08 handout given during the class presentations by the Technology Trainer – Tera Doty-Blance.  These instructions contain information on the following.

Equipment
Pre-Planning Your Video
Importing Video
The iMovie Interface
Editing Video
Adding Transitions
Adding Text
Adding Images
Adding a Narration
Adding Sound Effects
Exporting the Video
Returning to Your Project
Additional iMovie Instructions and Resources

Remember, when working with iMovie projects – DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, OPEN YOUR IMOVIE OR GARAGEBAND PROJECT WHILE IT IS SITTING ON THE NETWORK DRIVE. You must drag a copy from the Network Drive to your Local Machine BEFORE you open the file.

If you have any questions, or would like to request an iMovie class presentation, please contact

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
dotyblancet@cortland.edu
http://library.cortland.edu/ttc/training_center.asp

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For Faculty who have students working on media production projects in their class and their drive space is not large enough to store these projects, Faculty will be able to request an increase in their student’s storage space.

The request should be made to the Technology Help Center (THC), helpdesk@cortland.edu , and contain the CRN-term code of the class (i.e. HLH 250 Fall ’08). Information Resources staff will process the request, which may take several days. Once the storage space has been increased the Faculty member will be notified when it’s completed. Please note that at the end of the semester, the student’s storage space will be reset back to 200 mg.

1.  Click on the arrow in the group of icons at the bottom left of the iTunes application window to bring up the preview window.

2.  Click on the preview window to bring up the larger playback window

3.  Click on the Chapter drop down menu to move to different points in the playback of the enhanced podcast.

The following instructions are for students who have created a file and need to upload it to their course in iTunesU. Click here to download a pdf file with these instructions, plus screen shots of each step.

If you have a problem uploading your files, please contact your instructor and/or the Technology Help Center.

Technology Help Center
SUNY Cortland
Winchell Hall
P: 607.753.2500
F: 607.753.5599
helpdesk@cortland.edu
Hours: M-Th, 8:00-6:00
F, 8:00-4:30
Summer Hours: M-F, 8:00-4:30

Multimedia production and recording equipment is available at the circulation desk in the Memorial Library.  External Hard FireWire drives, Digital Video Cameras, Digital Still Cameras, TuneTalk Microphones and iPods are available for loan and use outside the library. USB Microphones are available for in house use only.  The two multimedia rooms in the library are available for 3 hour periods and each contain a production level Mac and PC and software.Keep in mind, users will have to provide their own burnable CDs and DVDs for additional storage or back up.  Anyone who wants to use the digital video cameras will have to purchase their own miniDV tapes as well.

Registration –An online form will be available at the Cortland iTunesU website http://www.cortland.edu/itunesu , where instructors can request course space in iTunesU.  Instructors will need to provide their course name, course number, and CRN from Banner.  After this information has been submitted to the iTunesU administration, training must be scheduled before the course space will be created.Until the online form is made available, iTunesU course requests should be made directly to the Technology Trainer (Tera Doty-Blance – dotyblancet@cortland.edu , 753-4056)Training –Instructors will be required to participate in two workshops, one on course management and one on podcast production, before the creation of their course space in iTunesU.  The first workshop, on managing the course space will provide information on logging into the system, how and what sections of the course interface to edit, managing the student drop box, student versus instructor interfaces, proper file naming schemes and file management.  The second workshop will cover podcast production on either the mac or pc platform, using Garageband, iMovie and/or Camtasia Studio.  This production workshop will provide instruction in use of the software as well as additional hardware and file storage considerations.  Student podcast production considerations and support will also be discussed.Support –Instructors can request in class presentations on Garageband, iMovie or Camtasia Studio by the Technology Trainer (Tera Doty-Blance) or the Multimedia Production specialist (Dawn VanHall).  Such requests and scheduling will be made through the Coordinator of Instruction Librarian (Daniel Harms – 753-4042)Instructors are requested to provide information on student podcast assignments, such as scope of project, required elements, due date, etc, to the Coordinator of Instruction.  This is for the purpose of coordinating support and equipment availability.Equipment –Multimedia production and recording equipment is available at the circulation desk in the Memorial Library.  External Hard drives, Digital Video Cameras, Digital Still Cameras, TuneTalk Microphones and iPods are available for loan and use outside the library. USB Microphones are available for in house use only.  The two multimedia rooms in the library are available for 3 hour periods and each contain a production level Mac and PC and software.

Users of the MultiMedia Computer Labs in the Library have been experiencing an error message when they attempt to select, Export Podcast to Disk… from the Share menu. In most instances, the error message does not occur on the first attempt to export. But, it will occur with any subsequent attempt to export or overwrite the podcast. This error is repeatable and appears to be unrelated to the location that the user is attempting to export to. We have not discovered any knowledge base documentation relating to this issue and have opened a posting in response.There are a couple of ways to work around this problem. Perhaps the easiest is to select the command, Send Podcast to iTunes, under the Share menu. This will create the same .m4a file that the export function would create and places it in your Music folder. The path to the file is User Home Directory/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/. An easier way to locate the file is to do a Spotlight search. Click on the blue magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the menu bar. In the search field, type the name of your podcast file. It will appear in a list that you can open. After locating the file, you should be able to drag it to any location you choose.Remember, when you log out of the computer, your home directory will be deleted along with any files you’ve stored there. So, it’s important to either burn a disk copy of your file, or put a copy on the Storage drive.We will track any updates on this problem and report them here after we’ve verified their accuracy. We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue.Macintosh Technical Support Staff

With Camtasia Studio, you can record and edit an audio file then export it as an mp3 file, ready for upload to iTunesU.  Camtasia Studio is available on the PCs in both the Multimedia Rooms in Memorial Library.Click here to download a pdf with step by step instructions, with screen shots, on how to:

1. Become familiar with the Camtasia Studio interface
2. Calibrate your microphone
3. Create a Voice Narration
4. Export your voice narration as an mp3
5. Add an image to your the artwork area of your mp3 file in iTunes.

Be sure to visit the Technology Training Center Online Materials page for instructional documents on other applications such as iWeb and Garageband.