Walk-in Center Services
There’s magic in the air.
Do you have slides for one of your courses that you need scanned? Do you need a short clip taken from a movie to help you present a concept to your class? Would an animation help your students understand a difficult theory? If so, let the Walk-in Center at the Center for Teaching & Learning work their magic for you!
The Walk-in Center collaborates with faculty to produce multimedia projects that help improve teaching and learning. They specialize in small, quick-turn-around types of projects that generally fall under the following categories:
Video filming, editing, and digitization
- Filming student presentations (e.g. filming students’ public speaking skills or negotiation skills for evaluation and review).
- Capturing short clips from movies for easy and effective instructional use.
- Digitizing short clips from VHS tapes or audiocassettes and converting them to various file formats.
Design Animations
- Designing and creating animations of concepts that are difficult to understand (e.g. how the speed of light works).
- Creating interactive maps.
- Developing customized demonstrations and simulations of instructional concepts (e.g. how chemicals interact, how an earthquake affects a bridge).
Scanning
- Scanning pictures from magazines or books.
- Scanning photos.
- Scanning 35 mm slides.
- Saving scanned images to a CD or DVD.
Classroom PowerPoint Presentations
- Creating customized PowerPoint templates to visually improve lecture presentations.
- Improving the design of an existing lecture presentation to look more professional.
- Providing consultation on best practices for PowerPoint.
- Converting movie clips to formats that work in PowerPoint.
iClicker Training and Support
- Get iClicker software and hardware.
- Receive training for iClicker software.
- Learn about the best pedagogical ways to use in-class response systems.
- Get support for your iClicker questions (call 422-8008).
Animation Examples
Faculty Testimonials
If you have an instructional need but are not sure which technology would best facilitate what you have in mind, call Nina Lewis at 422-8328 for a consultation meeting.
The CTL Walk-in Center is located in 3704 HBLL. For assistance and more information, call 422-1888.