UD Homecoming 2013 T-shirt design

UD Homecoming 2013 T-shirt design contest The deadline to submit designs is noon, Tuesday, Sept. 24.

Problem with a Hard Drive

Today I tried connecting a hard drive to one of our windows machines, but it never appeared so I tried to connect it to the tower and it still could not connect. Next I tried to use the hard drive on a Mac and it finally worked! With Lucky's help we were able to find the root of the problem. The hard drive's partition was messed up so we had to repartition it on the Mac side then on the Windows side.

Whenever you are troubleshooting a hard drive make sure the power is plugged in, then check if either the USB or Firewire cable are plugged in. Sometimes it is better to plug the hard drive right into the tower of a desktop computer rather than a connector because there may not be enough juice to power the hard drive. If the hard drive does not work on a Windows then give it a try on a Mac or vice versa.

Ever need to partition a hard drive there is a guide if you search this on the SMDC computers

 U:\Guides & Manuals\Equip. & Software Guides

File name is Hard Drive Partitioning Guide its a word document

On-Campus Photography Opportunity!

Are you tickling for a taste of fame? Would you like your work to be seen by thousands of viewers? Are you a budding photographer or a seasoned pro? The University of Delaware’s student newspaper, “The Review” is accepting photography submissions for its new student photography submission page! All photographs are welcome, though preference toward school or Delaware-related photographs is given. A short caption for each submitted photograph must be included as well! All submissions must be sent to theudreview@gmail.com by Saturday afternoon of each week. The paper publishes on Tuesdays, so look for your photographs in popular University buildings such as Trabant or Perkins. Want to participate but don’t have your own camera? This is a great opportunity to check out all of the goodies offered by Student Multimedia Center in the Library. Give the Review your best shots by renting out one of the Point-N-Shoots Cameras or DSLRs. For distance shots, the Student Multimedia Center also offers a 75mm-300mm zoom lens to go with the DSLR. Tripods are also available and come in handy if you’d like to practice long-exposure photography. Happy photographing!

Video taping in the library

FYI

The privacy and security of the users in the Library is a primary concern. Videotaping and photography may take place only in the footprint of the Student Multimedia Design Center, located on the lower level of Morris Library.
While videotaping and/or taking still photography in any of the Studios, Classrooms, or open area workstations in the Student Multimedia Design Center, students should be respectful of disturbing others and not include images of others in their taping without the consent of these people.

As per Policies.

SPAN106

We've had a couple users this morning that have a problem accessing their homework/quizzes through a Pearson product that SPAN106 is using for course management.  The issue is that the site heavily uses Java.  All newer browsers are very restrictive of what Java plug-ins can do, because of recent massive security breaches.  This means they cannot fully use the site on any sit-down computer in our Center, nor can they use it on their own laptops.  They CAN use our laptops to access the site.  (Since our laptop are only imaged once a year, the browser is out-of-date enough that the equally out-of-date Pearson website actually works.)  I would say that this is only a short-term solution, and I will try to find out who to report these problems to.

Summary: If a user is having trouble with their Spanish homework and asks you to install a Java update, don't do it. Just check them out a laptop and it will work fine.

additional update on this:

They might also need to record audio in to the website.  In this case, our laptops do not have an internal microphone, and you will need to check one out to them. I would recommend the headphones w/ mic, the USB blue snowflake kit, or the Tabletop Mic kit.

2013 Library Fall Workshops

In addition to the iMovie workshop Cassy mentioned below, (by the way, great video, Cassy!) there are plenty of free workshops that the library offers to faculty, students, and staff. In fact, there are over twenty of them! Topics range from Orientation of the Center and Film and Video Collection to software tutorials and explanation of processes and services available in the library. Student Multimedia Design Center-specific workshops include Digital Photography Basics with John, an advanced Adobe Photoshop workshop with Nico, Production Basics with Hannah and many more.

Currently at the Center, we have flyers that contain each one of the workshops with a description, instructor, and date and time. In any case that you need to let someone know about a specific workshop, the flyers are a quick and easy way to answer questions and give correct information. In addition to the flyer, those interested can visit http://guides.lib.udel.edu/workshops for the same information. Users will also need to visit this site to register online for each workshop.

Don't Miss Out On This Great Workshop!

With the start of the new semester there's a lot of exciting activities that you can participate in on campus. From football games to club activities, your 2013 Fall semester is bound to start off great! However, don't forget about the exciting workshops the Student Multimedia Design Center has to offer.

If you're interested in movie making, or have to create a video project and just need to know the basics then iMovie: The Essentials is for you. This workshop "will highlight the many features of Apple's video editing software. [And] will explore the entire iMovie editing process from beginning to end."

When: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 10 a.m. -12 p.m.

             Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Presenter: Hannah Lee, Assistant Librarian

Where: Student Multimedia Design Center

Cost: It's Free!

* Below is a project I completed using iMovie for my Media, Design and Culture class.

[Second] Life As We Know It from cassygalon on Vimeo.