The Technology Assisted Curriculum Center provides a number media services to university instructors, including the preparation and internet delivery of audio and video media. Our aim is to make media that is inconvenient or impractical to use in the traditional classroom setting available online. In many cases, these are media clips an instructor would normally show in class using a video cassette or DVD. These media assets have many uses and benefit both the fully online course as well as the traditional classroom course.
Our media on demand philosophy is that of maximum accessibility by all connection speeds and client configurations. Unless a project has specific needs, media prepared at TACC will by default be delivered in Flash Video Format. QuickTime, Real and Windows Media streaming will be made available upon request.
TACC now uses the Flash Video format for our very popular media encoding services. There are many advantages to Flash-delivered media including broad cross-platform support and a widely installed light-weight media player. We can encode media into Flash and be assured that a very large percentage of viewing clients will be able to view the media without the need to install additional playback software.
Here's an example of TACC-hosted streaming media inside of a web page or WebCT course...
It's easy! Bring your source materials to TACC and fill out a streaming media project form. We'll take care of the rest. Once we're done preparing your material, we'll send you an email containing links to your media and instructions for implementing them in your course.
TACC can also help with a number of other media related tasks such a format conversion, simple media editing and production, low quantity duplication and video recording. We also help a number of faculty with PowerPoint narration whereby they can record the lecture along with the slide and package the whole thing into a downloadable media asset.
