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Latest Developments
Media Services is the new title of the Audio Visual Centre. We are now part of UCD IT Services, along with UCD Computing Services, UCD Management Services (MSU) and the UCD Web Unit. This should lead to synergies in the delivery of educational technology and media services to UCD academics.
UCDscholarcast: Podcasting Research in Irish Studies
Media Services have developed the UCDscholarcast website and podcasts in conjunction with the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. The series editor is Dr PJ Mathews.
The UCDscholarcast series is inspired by the RTE Radio Thomas Davis lectures and aims to be the audio equivalent of a well-produced academic journal and a multimedia equivalent of the Thomas Davis Lectures. The inaugural UCDscholarcast series is entitled ‘The Art of Popular Culture: From "The Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance’. Since then, scholarcast series on 'Archaeologies of Art' and 'Scholars off the Page' have been produced and 'Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago' is under production.
Each lecture is given to a live audience and then recorded in the Media Services studio as a ‘scholarcast'. The scholarcasts are then published on individual web pages, which contain a speaker profile, abstract and transcript of the lecture in addition to the audio recording. The recordings are then made available as podcasts. Listeners can subscribe to the podcast series using iTunes or any RSS aggregator. Such aggregators check for new podcasts and download them automatically to the listener’s computer, where they can be played or transferred to an iPod or MP3 player. A transcript of each lecture can also be downloaded and used for citation.
Online learning in Psychiatry
Following the award of a Module Innovation Support Grant of €3,500, Media Services and Dr Allys Guerandel, UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science (St Vincent's University Hospital - Psychiatry) have developed further blended learning materials for final year undergraduate psychiatry teaching. This was of one of 11 grants awarded out of a total of 33 submissions for 2009/2010.
The latest learning materials cover topics such as Reflection, Affective Disorders, Substance Use & Misuse, Delirium and Psychopharmacology. They follow earlier video case studies and an online tutorial on Taking Case Histories in Psychiatry. The online learning materials makes extensive of video clips of doctor-patient interactions. Students can check their own knowledge as they progress through the material by answering questions and receiving feedback on their responses. The Reflection materials are integrated with online activities in the Blackboard discussion forum.
UCD Institute of Food and Health e-Learning
Media Services recently completed a series of media-rich elearning lectures for Professor Mike Gibney, UCD Institute of Food and Health. The UCD Institute of Food and Health is a major campus-wide initiative at University College Dublin aimed at developing and conducting world class, multidisciplinary research into food and health.
These elearning lectures are designed to disseminate research findings both to researchers and the general public in a way that is clear, concise and timely, so as to raise awareness of critical issues in relation to food and health and contribute to the improvement of the general health and well being of the population.
The lectures were recorded in Media Services purpose built television studio. Camera-ready PowerPoint slides were developed in advance of the recording. A customised multimedia template was designed and developed and captured audio and video were compressed and imported into this template. The completed digital media content was then uploaded into the Institutes website. http://www.ucd.ie/foodandhealth/videolectures/
If you are interested in developing podcasts or media-rich teaching materials, please email us at mediaservices@ucd.ie
UCD Image Catalogue
The Media Services, UCD IT Services Image Catalogue is now available for browsing for users within the University. This database contains a growing collection of images representing the activities of University College Dublin which have been built up over many years of expert professional photography around campus and within our studio at Media Services. The database is updated regularly, and is designed to be easily searched or browsed and the images are suitable for use in a broad range of publications or websites.
UCD Maps
UCD IT Services is delighted to announce the launch of the UCD Interactive Map, which is designed to help students orientate themselves around the largest university in Ireland.
Click here to view the UCD Interactive Map
Built using the latest in WEB 2.0 technology and employing Google Maps technology as a basis, this map is both accurate and state of the art. It is interactive, innovative and most importantly - easy to use.
The UCD Interactive Map was developed as a result of collaboration between the Orientation Mapping Centre, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy and UCD IT Services, Media Services.
Two young Geography students, Paul Alexander and Robert Mathews, had a vision of a user-friendly interactive map that would help first year students, international students and occasional visitors, easily find their way around the biggest university in Ireland.
Features of the map include full and accurate building outlines, as well as the current outline of UCD Belfield Campus. Each outline is a doorway to information containing useful hints, tips, floor plans (for room navigation), pictures, virtual tours, access points and much, much more.
Students simply have to click on the name of the building they wish to find and they are shown the way. A range of photographs of important buildings have been built-in to help students and visitors recognise the actual place they are trying to find.
The students thanked John Matthews, Multimedia specialist, and Helen Guerin, Head of Media Services, for all their support and technical assistance throughout the project. Which they hope will continue to be built upon by future generations of Geography students.
IT Services support Research Questions and Answers forum
Primetime and Questions and Answers host John Bowman chaired a question and answers forum held in Conway Institute following the President’s launch of the Health Research Board seven year research findings.
Media Services of UCD IT Services provided full audio visual support for the question & answer session enabling Professor Sharon Ramey, Director, Centre for Health Education, Georgetown University, Washington DC to join the panel and partake in the discussion.
Photo: Prof Richard Tremblay, UCD Geary Institute, Prof John Ashton, Director of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Prof Colm Harmon, Director, UCD Geary Institute, Prof Cecily Kelleher, Head of UCD School of Public Health and Population Science (not pictured)
UCD IT Services Website Development
Media Services were involved in the design of the IT Services website, and also developed and tested a range of new HTML templates using CSS layout techniques for use on the site.
UCD Obstetrics and Gynaecology
We have produced DVDs on Prenatal History and Examination, Postnatal History and Examination and Neonatal Examination and an elearning case study on Infertility.
UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science
We have received funding under the HEA Strategic Initiatives programme for our action research project into educational technology and online learning.
UCD School of Architecture, Landscape & Civil Engineering
We are delivering workshops on photography to first year students.
Telematics Breakfast Seminar 2007
Telematics Breakfast 2007: (left to right) Dr James Jones, Prof Ivan Dajmanov, Prof Peter Dervan.
The theme for our 2007 Telematics Breakfast was eLearning in the Medical Sciences. Our guest speaker, Prof. Ivan Damjanov of Kansas University Medical Center spoke on 'eLearning in Medicine: Practitioner Reflections ' while Dr James Jones of the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science presented the ' UCD Virtual Microscopy Case Study'. The seminar was chaired by Prof. Peter Dervan of the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science.
Previous Telematics Breakfasts have been on the use of simulations in education and on computer-assisted assessment.
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UCD Medical Yearbook
We have designed the UCD Medical Yearbook, a leather-bound hardback publication of more than 150 pages; it details the events of the previous six years in the lives of the UCD medical students as well as providing contact details of staff in the School.
Undergraduate Open Days
Media Services also designed and organised the printing of promotional material for several Schools participating in the Undergraduate Open Days. This included posters of various sizes, flyers and leaflets.