The Center is located in the Benjamin Banneker Building.
Requests for services are in suite 304. Services are available from 8:00
in the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon. The facilities and services
of the center include a desktop publishing center, a faculty development
center, interactive classrooms, a student microcomputer laboratory, a
satellite land station, a video editing suite, graphics and photographic
laboratories, a film and video library, and teleconferencing facilities.
Among the wide range of traditional audio-visual distribution
and production services of the Communications Media Center are:
- Graphics Designs for press production
- Dry mounting
- Placards and Banners
- Charts, Posters, Signs
- Color Illustrations for Slide or Videotape Production
- Color Slides and Black & White Prints
- On Location Photography
- Projection Services
- Processing of Black and white Negatives andPrints
- Transparencies
- Lamination
- Xerox Copying
- Laser Printing
- Fax
Instructional Development
The Instructional Development unit provides the following
facilities and services:
Satellite Earth Station:
This center has two satellite dishes, both offering KU and C band. This
system is capable of receiving programming from any satellite in the domestic
orbit.
The center provides interactive teleconferences (video
and telephone) to faculty and students and the community in affiliation
with the Black Colleges Satellite Network and several other educational
satellite networks. These facilities serve as a meeting site for the President's
community Satellite Town Meetings in support of the nation's education
goals for the year 2000.
Interactive Classroom:
The interactive classrooms are multi-media projection and viewing areas.
This unit contains automated interactive learning systems for evaluation
and programmed instruction. In the process of instruction, the teacher
may control the media sequence, as well as communicate electronically
with the individual student from the podium. These controls are linked
with the television studio and to the master control telecommunication
center in room 303. The interactive classroom center is equipped with
speaker phones and video projection units for teleconferences.
Distance Learning:
Courses outside the university curriculum can be downlinked and distributed
throughout several buildings on campus. Plans are advanced for the full
distribution of two-way video for off campus instruction as a part of
the Bell Atlantic/State of Maryland interactive statewide network.
Instructional Television:
The center provides post production video editing. This service customizes
video tapes according to faculty specifications and instructional requirements.
It provides for transferring films, slides, stills, etc. to video tape.
Off air recordings and live video are provided for classroom utilization.
Faculty may also design video productions for use in the classroom.
Faculty Development
This unit provides professional support services to the
faculty. It assists the faculty to develop instructional materials and
in planning innovative approaches to teaching. The Center also assists
the faculty in the areas of instructional design, computer assisted instruction,
adaptive testing, individualized instruction, and in the preparation of
learning resources such as interactive video, television instruction and
computer-assisted instruction.
The Faculty Development Center holds scheduled workshops
for the faculty on the use of technology in instruction. The workshops
include demonstrations and hands-on activities.
In addition to the workshops, the Center also conducts
individualized training for any member of the faculty who may come in
on their own.
The Faculty unit also provides research resources for
faculty. This service aims to assist faculty and graduate students who
are doing research. The unit provides software that facilitate statistical
analysis of data. It has a CD-ROM collection that includes large data
sets such as the NELS 88 and ERIC documents. The center also provides
access to the World Wide Web, INTERNET, phone-mail, and E-mail.
Color Printing and Scanning equipment are also available
in the Faculty Development Center.