So I like to kind of start these events just give everybody kind of an update
of what's going on with Media Commons. Where we're at.
Some of the new things we've done over the last year. And I think a good way to set the
stage is to just give you some stats I think that this
kind of gives you in numbers a sense of the scale
and the impact that this service has had.
I like doing this little stats thing because these stats do tend to go up
every single year. So this is actually a service that's still
growing pretty quickly. And just to give you sense.
Over the last year we've had about three thousand two hundred,
three thousand twenty-three appointments. And that's helping about
ten thousand one hundred students. So that's pretty
wide impact over the year. Over the state. I think that we've
really touched a lot of different students. A lot different majors.
So I would say that that's pretty successful. And that's probably up about
fifteen or twenty percent since we did the last Tailgate last year.
One interesting change is sort of a shift in
sort of what we do with our time or how we interact with students.
At the campuses over the last year we've bumped up to about, doing about
forty-one percent workshops. And at at the campuses fifty-six percent.
At UP we're doing a lot more of these on demand workshops. So we're actually going in the
classrooms and working with students. And the reason that this is significant for us is
we've really identified with a couple things
are that a lot of students really have problems with. And trying to get that into covering that in workshops and initial workshops.
And what that does is enable us to really raise the bar for our
face to face consultations. So we're spending a lot more time covering high level concepts
and teaching narrative structure and how to communicate ideas
rather than constantly answering questions about how to back up iMovie.
This kind of strategic thing has allowed us to shift into kind of doing, I think,
what's a little bit more important for Media Commons.
Website continues to be a huge source of awareness for us.
Last year we had about 146,000 visits.
Three hundred thirty-three thousand page views. So people are really using
the website as a resource. They're using the website to do active things like
scheduling appointments with Media Commons consultants and things like that. So it's a really,
really highly trafficked website. Lots of really good resources. And I do want to take the opportunity
real quick to announce that we are making some pretty major changes
both under the hood and publicly. So you'll start to see those roll down
and then kind of culminating in a brand new website some time in
springish Hannah? Springish!
Just a kind of
random stat that I think is pretty cool. We installed this presentation
practice room in Wagner building here. Kind of as a test for the One-Button Studio that's
something that Justin's gonna show off a little bit later. This is also
also gonna be going into the Knowledge Commons, which we'll also talk about a little bit later.
But I think over one semester we had about one hundred fifteen
hours booked in there. These were students that were coming in
recording presentations and turning presentation videos into their instructor for
large enrollment classes. So this is a pretty neat new capability for us
to really super streamline a video studio that's enabling sort of a more
you know, streamline quick work flow for students that want to kind of casually go in there
and do things like presentation practice. That's a new thing for us and it's really being successful.
I think that's a good indication of how successful the One-Button Studios gonna be.
And over the last year, we've had a couple different events the
forum on Media and Gaming, the last Tailgate, Media Commons 101's. We've had about
two hundred and eighty faculty and staff total in those. So really getting
the word out about Media Commons through those things pretty successfully.
I want to talk about some of the things that are going on at University Park over the last year and upcoming.
And I'll start with a new space that we have
in Earth and Mineral Sciences. Tim Robinson's here.
He works in that space. This is a really cool space. We tried to do some new things with this.
This is something that Hannah designed. And we put some new
technologies in here. We have the smartboard in here. And kind of integrated that in a way that's
really, I think, gonna change the types of instruction. And type of things
that the faculty do within this room. Sound booths and some other
kind of traditional Media Commons things in there. But it's a really neat room. It's in Hosler building if you
want to have some time today or tomorrow to go check it out. It's a pretty nice space.
This is our second partnership with the college.
The other being Axi. So that's pretty
exciting for us. And we're really doing a good job, I think, of integrating this space into the EMS curriculum.
Knowledge Commons, so if you were here at the
Tailgate last year, you might have heard us talk quite a bit about the Knowledge Commons.
And we're still kind of talking about, but not showing it, because it kind of got pushed back.
There was some problems with the flooring in the space that this was going into.
So parts of this have been implemented. If you're walking around the library you'll notice there's lots of
places where you can only get access with hard hats. What you're looking
at right there, you can access with hard hats right now, but we promise you it will look exactly like
that by early January.
It's a really exciting space. Media Commons has a really good presence in that space.
And this is a really good example of our partnership with the library.
Our gracious host for this event today.
I'll talk a little bit about some of the things that are going on at the campus.
And how Knowledge Commons here as effected some of the relationships that we've had
with campus libraries.
So in terms of our campus support.
We have two relatively new staff. Nick Smerker who's
supporting the western campuses.
And Carla Rapp who's supporting the eastern campuses.
And one interesting thing that I want to announce if you guys aren't aware,
is that we've switched to having these guys both telecommute. So they're actually gonna be
moving into the regions of their respective campuses.
So Carla's going to be moving into the Philadelphia area. Nick's gonna be moving into the Pittsburgh area.
Which is gonna allow them to spend a lot more quality time at the campuses and a lot less
time in the car traveling. Which I'm sure is gonna save both of their sanities.
And really, I think, improve the
service that we provide to the campuses. So that's really cool. One of the programs that
Carla and Nick did come up with, that I think was really successful this year, was the Media Commons 101.
I think they hit just about every single campus. And this was sort of a open house
introduction to the Media Commons. We had tons of people come out for these.
And it was actually quite a few new people, new faces coming out to these. So that was really good.
Lots of faculty. So just a great way to build awareness
and you know, identify some new projects for the semesters.
We did the forum on Media and Gaming in Harrisburg.
Another really successful event. Sort of a spin off event to the Tailgate.
I want to talk about a couple spaces. And they're
this is not a comprehensive list. There's really great stuff going on at every campus.
Just want to highlight a couple on a new
space in downtown Altoona that
we're working on having some presence there. But overall
a really cool, really cool new spaces in Altoona.
Some new renovated buildings that I think that we're gonna talk about in a bit.
These are just some images of what those look like.
Brandywine kind of a renovated space. They had some issues with their library.
And they're just kind of back online just as of, I guess, a few weeks ago.
And so we have some new spaces there.
Harrisburg, John Hoh will talk a little bit about this, but a great
Media Commons right in center of their library. Another example of a really good partnership
with the libraries and Media Commons.
And just a kind of heads up, this is something that we're still planning, but we're gonna do our next
forum on Media and Gaming at Berks in one of their brand new buildings.
I believe it will be in that building. So that's still planning. But that's gonna be somewhere in the February,
March time frame. I mentioned some of this
deepening partnerships that we've had with libraries. With the
success that we've had with the Knowledge Commons and just in general working with the libraries here, we've started
to go to the campuses and really talk about how we can extend that relationship
We did a workshop yesterday on scholarly storytelling. I think that was an example of
kinds of resources, instruction that Media Commons can provide in partnership with libraries.
to really raise the bar for media projects
and get them to be much more of a higher level, intellectual activity for students.
So that's something that's benefited from that relationship. And we're really extending that
and talking to the libraries at the different campuses to see how more closely we can work together.
So that's been really a great positive experience.
And again lots more stuff happening at the campuses.
And I think that between this keynote session and the session at the end of the day panel,
you'll have some opportunities to share some of your own great learning spaces.
One-Button Studio, we'll demo that later, that's something that
gonna be part of the Knowledge Commons. And hopefully we're gonna be able to offer that to the campuses soon.
Mobile Media Pilot, we have a panel about that, a great program so far.
We've worked with quite a few faculty in some interesting projects.
Starting to learn a little bit more about mobile learning.
And these are just some of the little kind of bio head shots of some of the faculty
that we've worked with over the last couple semesters.
And you can find more at mediacommons.psu.edu/mobilemedia if you want to go in,
drill in and look at some of the what these projects we're all about and some examples.
There's some pretty cool examples that students have created using just iPod touches.
Actually we have a student sitting right upfront that's using one of our iPod touches
to film this right now. So it's pretty neat.
And finally I do want to mention the EGC, Educational Gaming Commons.
Chris Stubbs is here. He's gonna talk about this a little bit later today.
We're continuing to explore how we can integrate educational gaming
into what Media Commons does. EGC just launched a brand new website.
It's gaming.psu.edu if you want to go and check out
that site and find out a little bit about how you can get involved.
I definitely recommend checking out gaming.psu.edu.
So without further adieu, that's my state of the union, state of the
media commons.