We’re bringing a little bit of Hollywood to your Finals Week celebrations this year.
Between now and Dead Day, you’ll have 12 chances to win a ticket to the Abilene premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit.
Follow the Learning Studio on Twitter or Facebook for daily trivia on some of our favorite movies. *Details below on how to enter.
How To Enter
All ACU students, faculty, and staff may enter by watching @learningstudio on Twitter or ACUlearningstudio on Facebook for 12 movie trivia questions–one each day.
Answers should be sent by email to learningstudio@acu.eduwith each correct answer adding your name to the Dead Day drawing.
Movie tickets are for the Abilene midnight premiere of The Hobbit at the Century 12 Theater (behind Target) on Thursday, December 13th. Winners can choose between 2D or 3D screening when they arrive at the theater.
On Dead Day afternoon, drawings will be made by library staff and winners will be contacted by email. All prizes need to be picked up by Wednesday, December 12th at the main desk in the Learning Studio.
We’ve had a great semester working with you on campus, and this is our way of saying thanks. Good luck.
One of the services we’re piloting this fall is producing a handful of distinguished speakers and academic events each semester. Summit hosts dozens of classes and keynote speakers each fall but some of the panel discussions haven’t always been captured. This fall we were happy to capture two of these events that all featured ACU faculty as respondents.
Then in November we worked with Dr. Jeff Childers in the Graduate School of Theology to capture this year’s Carmichael-Walling Lecturer, Dr. Stephen Fowl from Loyola University Maryland.
Let us know if your department or college is bringing in a guest speaker and we’ll check the schedule.
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Summit Coffeehouse: Dr. Walter Brueggemann
A conversation with Dr. Mark Hamilton, Graduate School of Theology
Gospel According to Twilight: Dr. Elaine Heath
A conversation with Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker, Psychology
The 24fps International Short Film Festival returns to the Paramount Theatre this weekend. There is an astonishing variety of work in narrative, documentary, and animation categories.
If you’d like a chance to win tickets to attend one of the programs this Friday and Saturday, keep an eye on our Learning Studio channels this week.
As more and more students have had a chance to use the Media:scape tables in our collaboration rooms, we’ve heard from Mac users wanting an easier way to connect than checking out an adapter.
This last week we added Mac cables to each table–technically Mini Display Port cables–to make getting your work on-screen a little easier.
We will continue to have adapters to connect iPads and older model laptops available for check-out from the main Learning Studio desk.
Last week we had a chance to share our experience working with iBooks Author on the Year One Report with members of the New Media Consortium. Nathan Driskell and Matt Bardwell joined me online for a one-hour webinar hosted by Holly Ludgate from the NMC. Here is the abstract:
In 2012 the AT&T Learning Studio at Abilene Christian University produced an annual report for corporate and on-campus audiences. The report needed to showcase media content within the broader context of our mandate to be a learning laboratory within the university. We chose iBooks Author to test its value as a tool for first-time users and design professionals. The session will walk through opportunities and challenges in using the new platform for major projects.
To review the Learning Studio: Year One Report, visit acu.edu/lsreport
For those who couldn’t make it, here are a couple high points:
Looked back at desktop publishing revolution brought on by Aldus PageMaker and the Apple LaserWriter, putting unprecedented tools in the hands of mere mortals. Discussed what it meant for design (for better and worse) and how decades later we’re seeing education built on those foundations.
When iBooks Author released in January, many in education wondered if this was a similar threshold moment providing access to wider audience with higher fidelity experiences produced by non-professionals.
Walked through initial assessment of the platform when we began work on Y1 Report in May. The largest question was whether an audience yet existed for iPad-only content that bypassed the base of iPhones and iPods already on our campus.
Most important strength was the significant advance this represents to the PDF or ePub for the creation of truly rich content built with the known quantities of audio, video, and Keynote animations. Given similarities of the platform to Keynote and Pages, it’s also an application that is easy to train.
Walked through a range of tips and suggestions in designing the overall document and media strategy (see the slides for a few of these).
If you’re planning upcoming training for iBooks Author, here are a couple resources we found valuable:
