Digital Commons at Penn State

During the fall semester, the Digital Commons Editing Studio (T-108) is open Monday-Friday 8am-9pm, and 10am-4pm on weekends. During these times you are free to walk in and utilize the equipment and software. Should you wish staff assistance, you can visit us Monday-Thursday, Noon-1pm or 3pm-6pm, or Friday, Noon-1pm. At other times you will need to make an appointment by emailing wbitsupport@psu.edu. Assistance can also be had by calling the Digital Commons support team at University Park. There is no assistance available on weekends.

The Digital Commons Recording Studio (T-107) is open only when staff is available in the Editing Studio, due to the nature of the equipment.

The Sparky Awards is an international student video contest created by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international alliance of academic and research libraries. The contest requires students to create a two-minute video based on this year's theme of "the value of information sharing." This year, Penn State is proud to be one of several universities hosting this contest. The Sparky Awards at Penn State is a collaboration between Digital Commons (a service of Information Technology Services, the University Libraries, the College of Communications, and Penn State Public Broadcasting (WPSU). Prizes from SPARC include $1,000 for the winner and two $500 runner-up prizes. In addition to prizes offered by SPARC, the top Penn State student entrants will be featured on WPSU's On-Demand channel, will receive gift certificates from the Computer Store, and will have the opportunity to be featured in the annual Student Film Festival hosted by the College of Communications. The deadline for submissions is December 6, 2009.

Thousands of high-quality video tutorials on hundreds of IT topics are now available at no cost to Penn State faculty, staff, and students through a license agreement with lynda.com, Inc., an industry leader in software training. To help ease current and potential resource burdens for Penn State faculty, staff, and students in challenging economic times, Information Technology Services has secured a University-wide site license for these tutorials, which are broken down into manageable segments to accommodate busy schedules. Topics include Microsoft Office applications, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, SQL, Drupal, audio and video editing applications, ColdFusion, operating systems, and hundreds more. These tutorials are taught by industry experts and available 24/7 for convenient, self-paced learning. In order to access the tutorials at no cost, go to http://its.psu.edu/training/lynda/, where other service requirements, as well as the dedicated link for the Penn State community, are posted.

During the summer months, the Digital Commons Editing Studio (T-108) is open Monday-Friday 8am-9pm, and 10am-4pm on weekends. During these times you are free to walk in and utilize the equipment and software. Should you wish staff assistance, you will need to make an appointment by emailing wbitsupport@psu.edu. Assistance can also be had by calling the Digital Commons support team at University Park. There is no assistance available on weekends.

The Digital Commons Recording Studio (T-107) is open only by appointment, due to the nature of the equipment.

From http://centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/online_video:

From http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/white-papers/hot-team-grassroots-video/:

On March 16, Digital Commons Pattee will open for student use, joining a similar facility in the Pollock Building to offer the latest equipment and technology service for creating a wide-array of multimedia projects. The new facility is located in 213 Pattee Library, west, (next to the Music and Media Center). Students may enter through Pattee Library, west, proceed on ground level down the corridor to the opposite side of the building and take the elevator to the second floor.

Digital Commons is an ITS (Information Technology Services) initiative to provide support for digital media production for teaching and learning at University Park and Penn State campus across the Commonwealth. Digital Commons currently offers 20 facilities designed to support media production and open to all faculty and students.

The Digital Commons studio at Berks opened in January 2009. Stop in to check out the studio, and bookmark this page so you can keep up to date on news at the Berks Digital Commons.

From: http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/faculty-fellow/cahoy-to-join-ets-as-faculty-fellow/

ETS is thrilled to announce that this Summer Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Assistant Head of Library Learning Services in the Penn State University Libraries, will join ETS as a Faculty Fellow. During her time as a Fellow, she will be exploring the topic of digital literacy acquisition in-depth and developing instructional solutions in collaboration with TLT/ETS staff expert in online content creation, including Digital Commons staff. You can learn more about her and her Fellowship by visiting her Fellowship page. We are all thrilled to have her spending time with us this Summer and we know it will lead to some very interesting outcomes.

Faculty Fellows engage with ETS to integrate technology within emerging educational projects that can be shared and implemented widely throughout Penn State. To be considered for a Fellowship please visit our Faculty Fellowship page.