Title & Creator : A short film about room acoustics, Geoffrey Perrin

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, acoustics

Overview

• An explanation of acoustic environments with examples. This is a master a series of instructional sound workshops, that explore a number of audio perspectives, processes and acoustic environments

Resource

• A Short Film about Room Acoustics
  

Title & Creator / Presenter:  How to deploy 3D Max models into IADT’s Virtual Environment VLAB, Joachim Pietsch

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, 3D Open Scene Graph, Vizard, Design

Overview

• This is a teaching resource that explains in simple steps how to prepare a 3D model  created inside an industry-standard 3D package like 3D-max Blender or Google Sketch Up and how to convert it into an appropriate format for rendering in the Virtual Environment. The tutorial demonstrates how to load the model into the Virtual Environment, explaining how to make adjustments to the Phython code and how to successfully run the scene on the computer clusters that make up  four projections in a Virtual Environment Projection system.

Resource

• How to deploy 3d Max models into IADT’s Virtual Environment VLAB

   

Title & Creator / Presenter:  GetSet  an interactive Glossary of Theatre Terms, Patrick Molloy

Subject Coverage: VLE usage Education, Design, Learning Technology

Overview

• Prototype of a project in development demonstrating an interactive glossary of theatre terms explained through text, pictures and video clips.

Resource

• GetSet an interactive Glossary of Theatre Terms

   

Title & Creator / Presenter:  Guidelines for lecturers developing screen casts for critical thinking, Sharon McGreevy

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, Education, Learning Technology and, Academic support

Overview: 

This paper outlines some of the challenges and issues associated with using screen casts to encourage critical thinking and debate amongst first year learners.

• Guidelines for lecturers developing screen casts for critical thinking

Title & Creator / Presenter:  Creating a Digital Archive for College Films/Documentaries, Paul Tynan

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, Film and TV, Costume Design, Documentaries

Overview: 

Encoding to digital formats for storage, streaming, library, archive of IADT Media. Creation of database for films, documentaries and other materials.

• NFS LECTURE SERIES

• FILM COSTUME DESIGN

• Institutional Co-ordinator: Deirdre Judge, The Librarian, IADT 

Title & Creator / Presenter: REViZIO 1 Barry Dignam

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, various disciplines,  Film. Television, Photography, Teaching &  Learning Technology

Overview

• REViZIO is a digital visual revision for users of Film & Media created at the National Film School at IADT Dun Laoghaire. The project creates simple demonstration videos on film cameras, video cameras, digital post-production etc. The videos are optimized for online viewing and presented on a simple website for mobile revision. In effect the teaching materials become the learning materials.

Resources

• Loading an Arri SR Film Camera Magazine 
• White Balancing a Sony EX1 Video Camera
• Revizio Website
  

Title & Creator / Presenter: Audio Editing, Conor Brennan

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, audio sound, music technology, audacity

Overview

• This project involved creating a series of screen casts, listening examples and supporting assessment relating to audio editing. The series centered on the fundamentals of audio editing without focusing on the features of a specific application. These teaching resources are aimed at users who wish to revise or improve their knowledge. They would are especially useful for self directed learners and users who have missed a lab session.

Resource

• Audio Editing 

Title & Creator / Presenter: Introducing Accounting Using Monopoly Game, Conor Heagney

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, Financial Accounting, Taxation, Games

Overview

• Introduces main financial statements to users using a series of screen casts, and explores the possibility of users recording the game on a laptop. It develops teaching notes which can be used where appropriate. The game facilitates  creating a quiz which can be played using a VLE. It also improves the assessment process and explores the possibility of using online assessment techniques.

Resources

• Introducing Accounting Using Monopoly Game 

Title & Creator / Presenter: Digital Character creation and animation, Julian King

Subject Coverage: VLE usage, 3D, Design

Overview 

• A series of guides to designing and constructing digital game characters, specifically aimed at teaching the design, construction, finishing, lighting and animation, of a 3D digital character in 3D studio max using a similar workflow to that used in games production.

Resource

• 3D Game character design and construction