Media Commons Fall 2013 Report

Media Commons Fall 2013 Semester ReportPrepared: January 2014

Service Overview

Media Commons is supported by seven staff, four responsible for UP and working from PollockBuilding, Sparks Building, the Knowledge Commons, and Colleges of Ag and EMS, two responsiblefor all Commonwealth campuses, and one overall manager. Additional support comes fromapproximately 80hrs/wk of lab consultant support. Campus consultants travel regularly in additionto supporting the campuses remotely. Media Commons facilities exist in the Pollock Building,Pattee Library, Sparks Building, Ag Sci, and EMS at UP, and at every Commonwealth campuses(20 campuses, not including Special Mission campuses). This report includes two sections, eachwith separate information on UP and Campus operations.

Executive Summary

The Fall 2013 semester saw the Media Commons’ busiest semester ever with having helped over10,000 people in a single semester for the first time. The Media Commons held its annual event,the Tailgate, and attracted a diverse crowd. Additionally, new support opportunities wereoffered to faculty and students in the form of the online interactive video modules used to teachiMovie and test knowledge of the video editor.

A brief write up specifically covering our focused support and resources as well as an infographiccan be found at:

http://mediacommons.psu.edu/2014/01/fall-2013-semester-report/

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Events

The Media Commons annual Tailgate event was held onOctober 4th and attracted 78 participants to attend inperson, which made it our largest Tailgate in several years.24% of attendees were faculty, 4% were librarians, 10%were students, and 59% were staff. 19% of attendeestraveled from the campuses. The keynote presentation wasprovided by Lori Hepner, Associate Professor of IntegrativeArts at Penn State Greater Allegheny and was followed bynine sessions and an interactive new technology room. Asan experiment, the Media Commons also ran Tailgate LIVE!in an effort to reach even more faculty and staff at the

campuses who were not able to travel to University Park for the event. Seven sessions werestreamed to 23 attendees at six campuses.

Several One Button Studio open house events were held at new installations that came online inFall 2013. Traveling consultants hosted three sessions at Altoona, Mont Alto and Abington toring in these first-ever Commonwealth OBS installations.

A brown bag lunch and discussion was held for the Agricultural Economics, Sociology, andEducation department of the College of Agricultural Sciences at University Park. Seven facultyfrom the department attended and listened to one of their colleagues discuss a successful mediaproject they had conducted in conjunction with the Media Commons during the previoussemester. The brown bag events continue to be an excellent method of outreach for UniversityPark.

Mobile Media

Notable Fall 2013 Mobile Media Pilot projects included KNES 068 fromWorthington Scranton, ENGR 397A from University Park, COMM 471 &EDUC 313/314 from Harrisburg, and HDFS 401 from Mont Alto. Furtherdetails on these successful pilots can be found on the Mobile Mediapage.

Facilities

A One Button Studio Lite, a full OBS setup minus the presentationpractice component, was constructed in the College of Agricultural Sciences building atUniversity Park. Work also began on the next full OBS installation in the Pollock building MediaCommons, with an expected completion date of mid-Spring 2014.

Long-time Media Commons consultant at University Park, Lauren Beal, moved on to anotherposition in TLT. To continue staffing the Pollock building Media Commons, Dan Getz moved fromthe Sparks building Media Commons to Pollock and Ariel Siegelman moved from the Pattee LibraryKnowledge Commons to the Sparks building.

Challenges

The biggest challenge facing the Media Commons going forward is that of scale. With the mostsuccessful semester to date in Fall 2013 and staffing changes at University Park, it is a goodopportunity to re-evaluate our staffing needs and how many classes we are able to support in agiven semester across the Commonwealth. Efforts to organize various approaches to addressingthis issue both at UP and the campuses are being solidified in the form of a three-year agilestrategic plan for the Media Commons and will be discussed in the Spring 2014 semester report.

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University Park Semester ReportFall Semester 2013

Facilities Breakdown - Fall Semester 2013

UniversityParkLocation

# ofAppointments

# of People Helped

PollockBuilding

79 100

PatteeLibraryKnowledgeCommons

1,338 4,724

SparksBuilding

32 41

ASIBuilding

162 426

HoslerBuilding

21 36

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LocationTotal

1,632 5,327

On DemandWorkshops

138 3,178

Total 1,770 8,505

Appointment Type Breakdown - Fall Semester 2013

Appointment Type# of PeopleHelped (UP)

Workshop(includes in-classon-demand workshops)

3,178 (37%)

Walk-In 663 (8%)

Scheduled 4,644 (55%)

Remote 20 (0%)

University Park One Button Studio Overview

Fall Semester 2013 Usage Statistics

● Users created 4,315 videos totaling 163 hours.● There were 667 appointments with 2,978 people helped.

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Notable Assignments: Fall Semester 2013

HPA 450 - College of Health and Human DevelopmentStudents created video presentations using the One Button Studio surveying the politicalcontexts of health care in the US.51 Appointments

RCL 137 - The College of the Liberal ArtsStudents from 28 sections of the Rhetoric and Civic Life course recorded several TED Talk-stylepresentations in the One Button Studio and later edited a final video project.21 Workshops, 249 Appointments

HDFS 411 - College of Health and Human DevelopmentStudents recorded practice counseling sessions using the One Button Studio, which was acomplete reinvention of an older assignment that required the use of analogue cassette taperecorders.2 Workshops, 51 Appointments

AEE 440 - College of Agricultural SciencesStudents created video projects individually tackling a variety of important Ag Extension topics.3 Workshops, 38 Appointments

GEOG 160 - The College of Earth and Mineral SciencesStudents in this introductory GIS (Geographic Information Systems) course produced group videoprojects on environmental and social problems and the mapping of these issues.1 workshops, 10 Appointments

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Commonwealth Campus Semester ReportFall 2013

The charts above illustrate course projects, campus events and related campus visits to eachlocation for the Fall 2013 semester as well as comparing each to the past two Fall semesters.Media Commons campus consultants traveled on 80 occasions in support of 45 projects and 14events (the highest yet) across the state in the Fall 2013 semester.

CampusCampusProjects

CampusEvents

Campus Visits# of People

Helped

Abington 2 1 8 106

Altoona 1 2 3 6

Beaver 1 1 2 22

Behrend 3 0 3 112

Berks 8 1 12 285

Brandywine 7 1 13 406

DuBois3 0 0 1 2

Fayette2 2 0 2 12

Great Valley1 1 0 7 3

Greater Allegheny 3 1 3 105

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Harrisburg 5 1 5 107

Hazleton 3 0 2 36

Lehigh Valley2 0 2 3 6

Mont Alto 4 1 3 105

New Kensington 3 0 2 40

Schuylkill 1 0 3 96

Shenango 1 1 2 14

Wilkes-Barre3 0 1 1 3

WorthingtonScranton

1 0 1 14

York 1 1 2 22

Total 47 14 80 1,502

1 Special Mission Campus: not an "official" Media Commons installation, but still receives support2 On campus dedicated support provided3 No requests for travel from this campus

Appointment Type Breakdown - Fall Semester 2013

AppointmentType

# of People Helped(Commonwealth)

Workshops 1,372 (91%)

Scheduled 56 (4%)

Remote 72 (5%)

Notable Accomplishments: Fall Semester 2013

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Harrisburg: COMM 471 Mobile Media PilotStudents in Amy Sauertieg’s Communications course were given access to iPad mini devices (orthe option to use their own iPhones or iPads) to complete a series of assignments thatrequired producing press releases, advertisements and other marketing communications.Assignemnts were then uploaded to Vine or YouTube and shared with others via Twitter andFacebook. All was done to prepare students for working with mobile/social tools as new PRprofessionals.1 Mobile Media/Storytelling workshop, 1 online focus group

Mont Alto: Spanish 001 & 002 in One Button StudioAnthony Betonte’s Spanish students were asked to complete short, pre-prepared skits thatthey presented in the One Button Studio space at Mont Alto. After recording these skits eachof several times throughout the semester, they were asked to upload them to the web forreview in class so that Spanish skills could be assessed and areas for improvement identified.1 MC overview/OBS workshop

Behrend: SUST 200Students in Dr. Ann Quinn and Jonathan Hall’s co-taught course on Sustainability producedvideos that raised awareness about global, regional and community ecological issues. Thesevideos were refined through a brief storyboard critique and brainstorming session held inperson all day after the initial training.1 MC overview and iMovie training session, 1 storyboard critique, 1 online review

Berks: CMLIT 153UInstructor Kick Shaffer challenged his students to create movies about different coming of age topics.The students were split into groups and told to pick a genre for their films. They were required toproduce a storyboard and a script. Their final project was edited using iMovie.1 Faculty Consult, 2 Media Commons/iMovie Training Sessions, 1 Project Critique Session

Brandywine: HD FS 229Jennifer Zosh enjoys having one component of her Infant and Child Development course devoted to aservice project. As part of this course students are required to volunteer for different organizationsthat help children and families. One service project option the students had was to complete an audiorecording of a childrens book. Each student put their recording on a cd and donated the cd and thebook to a local reading bank in the Greater Philadelphia Area.The students used GarageBand tocomplete these projects. There were two sections of this class.4 Media Commons/GarageBand Training Sessions

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Website Overview

The Media Commons website received a complete redesign during the Spring 2013 semester,launching to the public for the first full semester during Fall 2013. Along with the site relaunchcame both the separation of logging into its own space and the deployment of a new GoogleAnalytics tracking code to address this changed usage of the domain. Because of this clearertracking of public-facing content, changes were made to the site navigation that made findingtop content like the Free Media Library simpler. Brand new content like the Video ProductionTips and other process tutorials was added during Fall 2013 as well as all new interactive trainingModules, creating new growth paths for the Media Commons website going forward.

mediacommons.psu.edu Usage Statistics (August 25 - December 18)

● 21,187 unique visitors viewed content across 26,873 visits● 67,522 page views● 78.8% of visits were from new visitors● 2.51 pages/visit● 2:33 per visit spent interacting with the site● Acquisition: 12,297 via Google searches, 7,519 direct, 3,126 via clc.its.psu.edu● Locations: 21,567 visits from the U.S., 925 visits from the U.K., 603 visits from Canada● Top content: Free Media Library, Students pagel, Tutorial library, Final Cut Stills tutorial● New content: Modules (777 visits), Video Production Tips (533 visits)