The Latest from Media Commons
One Button Studio Lands in Harrisburg Library
Penn State Harrisburg has become the second Commonwealth campus to install a One Button Studio for the upcoming academic year. The new resource has been added as an enhancement to an already popular group study space on the Library's second floor. Visitors to Room...
New One Button Studio Opens at Mont Alto, First at a Commonwealth Campus
Penn State Mont Alto has become the first of the Commonwealth campus locations to open its own One Button Studio! The inclusion of this automated video studio has created a media production suite on the second floor of the Library where it joins three Media Commons...
Now Accepting Proposals for Fall 2013 Mobile Media Pilot
Media Commons is now accepting proposals for the Mobile Media Pilot for the Fall 2013 semester. Faculty who are interested in participating in the pilot program should complete the online proposal form by August 9th. If you are teaching a Fall class in which you feel...
LDSC Registration Now Open
Be sure to sign up for the 2013 Learning Design Summer Camp! Here's more about this great, free event: The annual Learning Design Summer Camp, held at Paterno Library's Foster Auditorium, University Park, is an informal, community-designed gathering of people from...
Free Media Library, Now with More Media Resources
The venerable Free Media Library here on the Media Commons site has just been overhauled with great new resources - and an updated look to match its new home! Here are all of the improvements: A link to the University Libraries Citation Guide is front and center,...
Media Commons @ Game Day 2013
From our partner in innovative learning, The Educational Gaming Commons: On May 7th, 2013, the Educational Gaming Commons held the 2nd annual Game Day Event, in the Knowledge Commons on Penn State’s University Park Campus! The event was a great success (and of course...
New Media Commons Website is Easier to Use than Ever
Welcome to the brand new Media Commons website! We are proud to take the wraps off this revamped resource for our Penn State community. Here's a brief rundown of what to look for while you take the self-guided tour of our new home: Location, Location, Location...
Community Caring Project Engages Behrend Students, Raises Money for Erie Causes
Penn State Behrend professor Anne Campbell wanted to find a way to get her students more engaged with the community this Spring as well as boost their public speaking skills for CAS 100H. So she signed up for the Mobile Media Pilot and received 12 iPod touch devices...
Second Editing Computer Moves to DuBois Library
For those of you wrapping up final project work or thinking about summer, we wanted to share an update about the Media Commons editing stations at Penn State DuBois. In an effort to make both stations as convenient to access as possible, we've just completed moving...
iMovie Project Preview Party at the Berks Campus
As the semester is winding down many students project's are becoming due. This was the case with the LLED (Language and Literacy Education) 402 class at Berks. This semester the students in this class, all Juniors, were given the task of creating an...
One Button Studio Preview at Mont Alto
This past Tuesday, the Mont Alto campus Library collaborated with Media Commons and Advanced Learning Projects to offer faculty, staff and students a preview of the One Button Studio facility that's coming this Fall. Justin Miller from ALP and I met with Lisa White,...
Spring 2013 Hotline Outage
Beginning yesterday, April 17th at around 10:00 am, Media Commons hotline services were disrupted due to an infrastructure upgrade and maintenance work at University Park. After becoming aware of the issue, MC consultants began working directly with Telephone &...