Audio/visual
The Multimedia arm of the IT & C Unit helps you to add pretty colours, flashing lights and noises to your course content and presentations.
We take care of:
| Multimedia infrastructure | Systems like the image database server, College podcast tools, the big screen in the foyer, multimedia software, CD duplicator, webcams and audio headsets... |
| Content creation | Filming, video editing, audio processing, icon design... |
| Multimedia training | Learn how to make your own graphic buttons for your WATTLE courses, resize and crop photos to use in your materials, record and edit audio for your courses... |
This page will be expanded eventually to include some examples of work we have done, but for now we will at least say, "If you have a need or an idea that involves multimedia in your courses or presentations, come speak to us... we can probably do it. The important thing is that you tell us far, far in advance of your event/deadline – even really simple things often require a lot of planning and equipment preparation beforehand."
Things we're working on at the moment
A lot of our time this year has been spent on building and refining our multimedia infrastructure: the announcements screen in the foyer that has the ability to present a live video feed of the Law Lecture Theatre for large public events; a system for COAST to add recordings of the events it manages to a podcast feed on iTunes U; deciding on an official lineup of webcams and audio headsets (and all the software stuff that goes with that) to let you do video Skype calls and record lecture notes in the comfort of your office to post to WATTLE.
Almost all of these goodies are now up and running, and most of them are running smoothly and effectively. We're looking forward to finalising the last few projects to solidify a good base of services and tools, so that we can then proceed to give these tools and training to you.
What's coming up?
Once our new infrastructure is settled, our focus will shift back to content creation and staff multimedia training. Ultimately, we would like to give you the ability to say "Ooh, that show on ABC TV last night would be perfect for demonstrating something in my course", and for you to have the capability to take that video and stick it in your WATTLE course or PowerPoint presentation all by yourself.
We also hope to do a lot of research and experimentation on delivering multimedia through various mobile devices, as well as see what fun and media-rich things we can deliver through WATTLE.
Uploading audio to WATTLE
Please read this short document to learn how to upload your audio links to WATTLE:
