Faculty Tutorials
One Button Studio Open at Penn State Center Pittsburgh
The Penn State Center in the heart of Pittsburgh has become the home of a brand new One Button Studio, the twelfth to open across the state. This new automated production space is integrated seamlessly into a multifunction conference room and represents months of...
Looking Back (Two)
Looking Back: Where Our Projects Originated, Spring 2012 – Spring 2016 Media Assignments by College Looking back over the last for years, it became pretty clear that our projects originated from both a set of consistent academic colleges as well as a few emerging...
Looking Back (One)
Looking Back: Supporting the Commonwealth, Spring 2012 - Spring 2016 Four Years of Media Projects What an amazing, transformative thing these last four years have been at Media Commons. To commemorate a milestone in our public reporting, we wanted to spend this summer...
Spring 2016 Semester Report
Spring 2016 Report The Media Commons had an excellent Spring semester and happily assisted 7,445 people. As usual we worked with a large number of colleges on projects (21 of which belonged to the college of Liberal Arts, our biggest partner). This semester saw the...
Faculty: Adding The iMovie Training Modules To Your Canvas Course
You can now add the Media Commons' iMovie Training Modules into your Canvas course as a graded assignment. The modules are stored in the Canvas Commons and this tutorial will explain how to import them into your course and then change the point value of each...
Fixing Stock Audio for Export in Premiere Pro
Before you can license any Adobe Stock Assets, you will need to fill out the Adobe Stock request form. Please note that Premium Stock Assets (Premium Images, Video, and Audio) are not available with your Penn State Adobe account and require special approval. This...
Learning Styles, 21st Century Skills and Media Commons
by Carla Rapp Traveling Media Consultant cmr38@psu.edu I have always been interested in exploring different learning styles. No two people learn the same way. Some of us learn through listening or visualization, or by doing and experiencing. Often people learn best by...
MAKEiT 2015 – In Review
by Graham BergMedia Commons Consultantgrb16@psu.edu MAKEiT was about thinking collaboratively with colleagues and students, learning through making and creating solutions using innovative new tools and practices. 80 faculty and staff attendees from 10 campuses,...
6 Apps To Take Your Mobile Photos From Good to Great
by Kristen McAuley Media Commons Consultant kem361@psu.edu Smartphones grant access to thousands of apps that can take amateur photography to a new level. Mobile apps can be used to edit photos in similar ways as high-end software, like Photoshop. If you like using...
Fall 2015 Report
Fall 2015 Report Happy 2016 – and a warm welcome to the Spring semester! Along with the activity that always comes with the start of a new term, we have been taking a close look at the previous semester, hoping to gain some insights that can help us as we move...