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The University of the Incarnate Word is a small liberal arts institution with an enrollment of 3000 undergraduates, 1400 graduates and a faculty of approximately 299. The desire of the provost and president is to move our educational offerings forward to address the latest technology where deemed suitable.
Naturally, this transition has affected the Communication Arts Department. As part of this movement toward integrating curriculum and technology, a decision was made by the Communication Arts faculty to network the Macintosh Computer lab with the television studio, edit bays, audio production facility, film screening room and a new non-linear production and editing bay equipped with Avid software.
One of the most requested demands by our students has been to learn how to produce multimedia and websites. A new website design class is being implemented to instruct students in the uses of mult-media: the installation of a WAN, or networking system will facilitate better learning and teaching in our department. This new technology and the use of networking is a natural in our department for integrating networking and technology into the utilization of newer technologies in production multimedia.
Networking media production facilitie elements highlights the potential of
computer-based learning by expanding the two-dimensional text-based world of
traditional books and written information to include a more compelling mix of
media.
By networking the production areas to other facilities we have effectively created a WAN This network will be primarily used to interconnect our journalism lab, writing lab , video, data and media labs with Incarnate Word’s backbone into their WAN.
The Communication Art’s WAN also connects students to the internet, encouraging an active role in learning. Multimedia systems allow students to go from a spectator role to one where they can choose the material they view, the sounds they hear, the movies that play on their computer screen, and therefore the educational content that is presented to them.
The networking of the Communication Arts department serves a practical information transmission function as well as creating an expanding educational opportunity for our faculty and students.
Multimedia projects executed over a WAN allow: