 All right, so as mentioned, my name is Paris Whalen and I'm the Media Literacy Librarian here at the University of Tennessee. And today we're going to go over the studio. So the title of this workshop is called Multimodal Made Easy at the Studio. So for those of you who are wondering right off the bat what the heck is multimodal? It basically means two forms of the combination of two forms of modes of communicating. So think of things like graphic novels. So that's like an illustration as well as imagery or the news. You have video, you have audio, sometimes you have graphics. Those are different modalities. And that's what we're going to be going over today because the studio can help you create those things and make it super easy for you. Okay. So our learning goal for today is going to be to understand the purpose of the studio and how this resource may contribute to the success of students throughout their academic journey. So as first year students, if that's what you are, I would love for you to know about this resource early on so that as you go through your different classes and you realize that there's opportunities to create new media and to learn a new skill, you reach out to us at the studio and we're glad to help you. So let's start off with a basic question. What is the studio? So first of all, the studio is located at Hodges Library in the South Commons. So that's past Starbucks on the right hand side. And it is the very last desk on the right. So it looks just like this. So do the other desk. So just keep in mind it's the last one on the right. There's also plexiglass around it now due to COVID. So this video is basically the media creation center of the library. That means that we possess the tools and the knowledge to help you build media to share your information with others. And we are able to walk you through that entire process. Okay. So it goes from video creation and editing. So that's from just burning the idea and working through it, getting the actual footage, creating something out of it and uploading it. That goes for audio as well. We have amazing audio rooms where you can develop podcasts and things like that. And we can walk you through the entire process as well as graphic design stations. So no matter what your major is, there's a chance at some moment that you're going to need the studio. So just stay tuned. And I think this will work out well. So with all of that being said, who's asked the studio? What's it all about? First of all, Michelle Brandon is the head of the studio. This is her brainchild. She's also the head of the scholars collaborative, which helps students, faculty and staff with research and impact and things like that or sharing their research through different modalities. That's me in Paris, the media literacy librarian. I also work with the studio to take the resources there and take you to other colleges or to do instructions such as this. Next, we have Shelley O'Barr, who is the studio manager. She handles the day-to-day things and you'll see her walking around the studio often. You'll also see her at a lot of marketing events because she does a lot of the marketing up in the library. And finally, we have Trey Hobson, who is the OIT technologist. So he handles our prints, our large format prints, as well as our software updates and keeping our computers updated making sure everything's working. We also have a bunch of students. So if this is something you're interested in, we are hiring who work with us with the software and getting to know it and that way they are able to help patrons. So we are open most days till midnight. So we have students sitting at our desk right now who are available to help you on demand. Now, you kind of have an idea of the studio. Let's talk about those individual parts of it. So right here, you have our video stations. This is directly across from the studio service desk that I showed you with the banner across it. These are dual monitor stations that are used for video editing. So that way you can have Premiere Pro over here and maybe something else open like an audio. Over here in these corners, these little black towers are going to hold our digitization equipment. So if you have the HSS cassette tapes, records, anything like that that you would like to digitize, you can do that here at the studio. We do have the equipment to do that. Finally, over here in the back corner right here, this is a large format scanner. So if you are an architecture student, maybe you need to scan in a blueprint or something that's bigger than one of our scanners like this right here, which is up to 12 by 18, you might need to look into our large format scanner. And I believe it's up to 36, but it might be a little bit bigger than that. Now you can't see over here in the corner, but there is a color printer that's directly connected to the studio. And the reason I bring that up is because this is the only printer in the library that prints 11 by 17 that students have access to. So if you have a print that needs to be printed in color, but it doesn't fit on letter size paper, send the print over to the studio and just go ahead and print it on 11 by 17. So around the corner from the studio desk, you have our graphic stations. These are just single monitors and they're usually linked up with a scanner or something like the Wacom tablet. So right here you see the Wacom tablet and right here there is a scanner. Over here, back here on this back computer, I believe it's number 20, we have a film scanner. So if those of you who have 35 millimeter film or if you have slides that you would like to digitize, you can do that here at the library. We are glad to help you to come on down. Finally, we have our 48 hour large format printing. And I know that's a little bit weird to say, but 48 hour I say this and I bold it because we need two days to follow, look at your request, print it, make sure someone's there roll up and all that. And I say this early on simply for the fact that people submit their things early and they think that this is on demand service and it is not. So just hold on to the thought that we do need 48 hours from the time you submit it to actually print. So finally, we come down to our audio rooms and our video rooms. We do have free audio rooms. They were not open last semester due to COVID. We have reopened them and we made just a couple of changes. They still have Max in there and each one has a keyboard in there. You can check out the mics and other equipment such as MIDI boards and things like that from the studio desk. Same thing for the video room. We have had to make some adjustments due to COVID. We do have something set up called a padcaster, which you can still do your recording. It has a little boom mic attachment to it. We are not allowing people to use all the extra equipment just because it's high touch, but we will set you up and make sure that we can walk you through the process if that is what you need. So you know about all our spaces now, what makes the studio so different from say other computers out in South Commons and North Commons? Because if you haven't noticed, there are tons of computers in the library. Many of them do have the same software as us. So you can get it on any computer. You can use Adobe Creative Suite. You can use the Microsoft Suite and things like that. But what separates the studio from the South and North Commons is that we're a specialty place. So we can help you through that entire process like I've been telling you. But we also have some specialized software that other stations might not have. So that includes Unity, like the game developer software, GIMP, Camtasia. So if you're an instructor and you want to annotate and do things like that, we have that software, Logic Pro. So if you are doing music and you want an industry standard software that is not garage band, we have that. And we have people that know how to do it. If you are an art and architecture, I know that there is a issue with manufacturing the computers if you order through UTK. So we are working on getting Rhino. So we try to talk to our colleges and our faculty and staff to get feedback on what we need. And we try to keep up with that. So if you were in orientation or you've been here longer than a year, you might know about a couple of classrooms that I did not mention. One of them is the virtual reality room. Yes, it still exists because it is high touch. We are not using it right now. And hopefully when we reopen, we will be able to allow people to use it again. The next one is the whisper room. And that is this little box right here. It's just a soundproof area that's kind of like the audio rooms, but it doesn't have any equipment in there. So you need to check out your own equipment from, say, the equipment desk or bring it. And finally, the video equipment. So as I talked about earlier, the video room is open. So there are things such as the green screen you can use in the curtains. But all of the extra things, so all of our fancy cameras and our reflectors and things like that are not in circulation right now just because they are high touch. But you can check out certain things from the equipment desk. So that is an alternative. And the equipment desk is also located in South Commons. It is the desk from the studio. So you kind of have an idea, a full picture of the studio, but how do we fit in with you and your academic journey? So let me kind of walk you through what a day with us may look like. So, or a project with us might look like. So you start off with a lovely project from your professor or you are doing something for your friend's birthday. You want to create a poster. Your next steps could possibly be a consultation with one of us. So if this is a personal project or a group project and only some of you need to know about the creation portion of it, you might set up a consultation with one of the staff members such as me. And we'll sit down and we'll talk about your idea and we'll kind of walk you through the steps and get you started. For those of you who might have instructors who are giving you projects, you might tell them about the studio and the fact that we do instruction. So you might see me later on in some of your classes telling you how to build a website or something like that. So next you start off with your ideas. You're ready to go into the create phase. So you're sitting at the computers. You're working with the software. You're drawing things by hand. You're talking with your group. You're getting feedback. And then finally, once you have a great product and you feel good about it, the last part is preserve. So usually you have to upload these things, whether it be to social media, Canvas or Google Drive, but it needs to be in a specific format. And the studio wants to make sure that not only are you able to edit it in the future, if you need to, you're also able to upload these things and have them be the appropriate size without them causing any upsets. So that's basically the flow of the studio. But sometimes you have to come back to stage one. So if you're still kind of confused on how you can apply the studio, here are some other examples. Last week, I taught English 295 how to build a media campaign. So they needed to build, they needed to create a PSA, so a video public service announcement. They needed to create a website and social media and a flyer. That sounds really hard and difficult if you've never worked with any creative software or you just don't know where to start. Well, that's where the studio comes in. So instead of building everything in all these different softwares, we make you where you are. And you may say, I'm a beginner, I just need something to get started. We can send you to something like Adobe Spark, which if you use Canva, it's a cloud-based software with a bunch of templates. And you can just start plugging things in. It has a very simple interface and you can build your video in there, your social media campaign and things like that. Now, the beauty of Adobe Spark is that you pay for it through a tuition. So all the content is free. The thing about Canva is that some of the content is behind a paywall. So that is something to think about. Another example is the research poster design workshops. So when Eureka comes around or the summer REU chemistry program has to present their research, we usually create a workshop that walks you through the design process and how am I looking at research setting and how to set the document up so that it can be printed at the correct size and looks really good. So there's more examples and I won't go through them, but these are just a couple to kind of give you an idea of what we do. So if you are interested and you would like to talk to us, I would like to show you the website. So I'm going to go ahead and exit at this, going to take a second. And here we have the website. It's lib.utk.edu for studio, or if that's too much, remember you can Google Utk Studio and the first link is ours. So this is our homepage. It has all of your basic information. I just want to go over this left hand column so you kind of know what to expect. This is about what the studio has. If you have some feedback for us, like you would like some software or you think that we have been doing something that we're open to that. We also have workstations and equipment. So if you want to know what's on our workstations, what software, which workstation that you need to be on so that you can reserve it, that's where you would click right here. If you were trying to submit a poster for printing, this would be our large format printing. There are two options underneath this. There's Hodges and Pendergrass. More than likely you're going to want Hodges, but by the chance you want Pendergrass, do know that you have to go over to that library and pick it up. Next we have Instruction and Consultation. That's where I was talking about in that graph, whether you have Instruction or Consultation right after you have the assignment. You can click on this link and an instructor can get a session with one of us or request a session with one of us, or you can request a session. So you just need to fill out this form. It's going to go back one. Next is the Commons Equipment Desk. You remember me mentioning that the studio is not checking out a lot of equipment in the video room. The Equipment Desk still has equipment that you can't use in the video room. So please just walk the desk down, get a couple of things from them and you can definitely carry it into the video room and we can help set it up for you. Finally, we have the Scholars Collaborative which is mostly for effective staff and students who are creating research and looking for impact factor in different ways to share it, but everyone is welcome to it. Next we have Reservations. So the studio tracks a lot of our stats just because we want to make sure that we're always being relevant to y'all and your work and we want to make sure we're always offering what you need. So if you would like to reserve, say one of our workstations, a video room or anything like that, you just need to click on that link and you can set up your times over here. Just make sure you are choosing the correct date first. That's usually where people mess up. Finally, I want to go to Recommended Tools. If you click on this, it's going to take you to a research guide and for those of y'all who aren't familiar with Research Guides, Research Guides are basically curated by a librarian specific to a discipline and it's basically an aggregation of a bunch of resources that you might use. So if you are it in the say College of Art and Architecture, well I'm actually your liaison and I have research guides that have a bunch of information that is very specific to you that you can use. So this is an example of that but it's for the studio. So it covers all different modalities and there's a bunch of information within these different tabs. So for example, if I am creating a flyer, I can click on this print and graphic design and I can see some of the software that's available to me. I've got some YouTube tutorials to see how to get started. I've also got some cheat sheets right here. So if I'm not sure what program I might use, I can come over here and say, all right, well I'm trying to create a social media campaign and web page. Maybe Adobe Spark is for me. So that's what these research guides are for. I also want to point out the smartphone media production. I recognize that a lot of us can't get on campus or don't want to due to COVID. We have put together a bunch of resources that you can just use your phone and things such as your closet and blanket forts to create good sound. Everything doesn't have to cost a million dollars. We want to make sure that you're still able to produce nice quality media without spending all that money. And finally, I want to show you the content and resources. So whenever you are in the editing phase, usually you're starting to add images or music and things like that. We want to make sure we're choosing royalty free images and we are crediting people. And if you're unsure where to find these things, you can come to our research guide and look under content and resources. Okay? Do know that some of these things, just pexels and stuff are connected to pay websites. But just watch where you're clicking and that's how you can kind of decipher. All of them are a little bit different, but just be aware of that. So I'm going to minimize this again and go back to my PowerPoint. So now that you kind of have an idea of the studio, what we do, how you can get involved with us, I would like for y'all to tell me what kind of projects have you been assigned? It could be in the recently, it can be in the past, but the studio could help you with. And Grace, if you drop that pad link into the chat, I will put up the results. And if you want to use some of the things that I mentioned earlier, that's perfectly fine. Yes. Create your quarter podcast. That is definitely one of the things we do. So you can come visit us and we will get you started with a program that works for you. So we might start out with GarageBand because it has a nice and easy interface and it's easy to click and drag things and edit. Something similar to that is in the School of Information Science, I think it's like children's literature or something along that line or school, librarianship, they have to report themselves reading a children's book and there has to be sounds and things like that. We help a lot with that. Sometimes I want to design high quality graphics for research presentations. Yeah, we can help you with that. Photoshop can be a little bit of a learning curve, but there's also other ways around it, such as using icons and kind of building off the icons with shapes and things like that. So we can help you build beautiful graphics. Perfect. So thank you all for sharing. Yes, all of these things are projects that the studio can help you with. So please visit us. So I feel like I'd be remiss if I didn't at least show you all some of the things that the studio has created, especially from our students and our staff members. So last semester I put this little video together in like 10 quick minutes because I wanted you all to kind of see that it's raw, but like we do have fun in the studio and these are some things that you can create. So I'm going to make this large and I'm going to play this video for you. And if for some reason you can't hear the sound or something like that, please let me know. You'll have to speak up. Hope you enjoyed that. Those are just a couple of projects that we worked on in the studio together. The music was original. That was Trey Hobson. He created that. All the projects you saw there were things that we did during COVID. So they were created using open source software or things that we already had access to. We used our phones. So that Seinfeld portion with the Legos, that was just an app call stop motion on iPhone. And he just lined up the audio with that. Anyway, these are just a couple of things that the studio can help you do. So we minimize this. Now that you know everything you can know about the studio, do you all have any questions for me?