The SMS provides support for faculty:

• by helping students with their digital projects at the SMS!
• by presenting demonstrations in your class or hands-on workshops in the library!
• by creating web and print tutorials for your students!
• by reserving facilities and equipment for video projects!
• by consulting with faculty concerning the most appropriate software to use for multimedia, web or video presentations!

Read what other faculty are saying about SMS support for their student's multimedia presentation assignments

Before You Make a Multimedia Assignment

Contact the SMS first. We can help you better if we know in advance that your students may be needing our help. We can also suggest the best AND easiest to use technologies available for your particular multimedia presentation assignment.

New: Ideas for Student Multimedia Presentation Projects

A number of faculty have expressed that they might be interested in having their students create digital presentations. but don't know what it's all about or how to do it.

The link below will take you to a new page with some ideas of how other faculty on campus are utilizing digital presentation projects for teaching and learning.

Examples of multimedia presentations that student can create - - AND LEARN in the process!

The SMS does not create course materials or websites for faculty but there are places that can help:

While the SMS is only for students to use for creating their digital presentations, faculty who need help creating their own multimedia or web-based presentations for use in class or who want help developing multimedia based projects for their students have other resources geared specifically to their needs. Faculty should contact the Faculty Professional Development Center at 672-2992 for assistance in developing technology based courses or for access to multimedia computers. Faculty wishing to create a video or convert videos to digital formats for presentations or for streaming on the web should contact the Teleproductions Department at 672-2810. Teleproductions and the FPDC also offer faculty graduate teaching assistants the free use of mini-DV video camcorders and access to "self-serve" digital editing facilities .