Media Break 1985

recorded live November 7 from the Memorial Union at Iowa State University this is media break 1985 sponsored by the Iowa State University media Resources Center media break 85 showcases the new technologies of instruction recorded live this is media break 85 Hi. I'm Bob Lindemeyer assistant director at the Media Resources Center and we're recorded live from the Great Hall of the Memorial Union with this the 9th annual media break media break 85 this is our third hour of recording from media break 85 and during this hour we're going to have an opportunity to interview three more of the 38 exhibitors that are here demonstrating the new technologies of instruction at Iowa State University we'll be visiting with the Iowa State University photo services with the Ames Public Library and their new applications of media in the new library building and also with the Iowa State University test and evaluation service but before we start those interviews I'd like you to have an opportunity to see another of the productions done by the media production unit here at Iowa State a program produced to orient and promote the band's program here at Iowa State a program entitled something about a band so let's view that tape now ladies and gentlemen presenting the 1985 ISU band extravaganza on Sunday November 10th at 3:00 p.m. in CY Stephens auditorium the ISU music department will feature the wind ensembles jazz ensembles and the ever-popular cyclone marching band cost of admission is two dollars for adults a dollar fifty for students children and senior citizens November 10 for the 1985 band extravaganza well we had to have a little commercial there about the band extravaganza before we actually played the something about a band tape that I promote a minute ago so as soon as we load up our tape playback system we'll give you an opportunity to see that production which was just produced this past spring to be used first of all at visa last spring and throughout the year to recruit and orient new members to the Iowa State University bands program the program runs about 17 minutes long and it covers the four major kinds of bands that exist at Iowa State University the ensemble bands the jazz bands the pep band that plays at cyclone basketball games and of course our favorite the cyclone marching band so here's that tape now we call it something about a band welcome to Iowa State University founded in 1858 Iowa State has evolved into one of the nation's major land-grant universities widely recognized for its excellence in science and technology and for its beautiful campus today Iowa State enjoys a growing reputation in the arts as well growth in the performing arts is most visible in the superb facilities of the Iowa State Center and in is used beautiful new music Hall opened in 1981 Music Hall is headquarters for the department of music and provides excellent classrooms rehearsal and performance space for Iowa State's programs in vocal and instrumental music each year hundreds of students from every academic discipline participate in the ISU band program alone the band program provides opportunities for continued performance and growth for students of all ability and interest levels the Iowa State University bands are some of the most popular organizations on campus yes at Iowa State there's something about a band all football afternoons at ISU are where it all comes together or the cyclone marching band and for these two gentlemen as well Joseph Christiansen is used director of bands and will rap director of the cyclone marching band very attractive and looks like to be very powerful formation we have a very large active and exciting band program here at Iowa State University each year over 550 students participate in the University bands these students represent every academic discipline on campus there are seven bands in the program these include three concert bands Wind Ensemble one Wind Ensemble two and the concert band two jazz ensembles the cyclone marching band and pep band by far the most popular of our band organizations is the cyclone marching band our marching band is 280 members strong and every year we rely on incoming freshmen to fill those ranks we perform at all the home football games and at least one out-of-town game per year with all those performances one might think that there's a lot of practice involved we practice every afternoon only for about an hour and a half it does take a lot of practice and a lot of hard work when we're on that practice field has those of you that have participated in band know oftentimes our fans never really fully realize the amount of time and hard work and effort that we've put in but it all comes together and it all pays off on a Saturday afternoon when the final performance looks like this we have three concert bands here at Iowa State the first two we call wind ensembles one and two and the third one is our concert band the wind ensembles we audition in the fall and they're made up with some of the finest musicians in the Midwest the concert band meets only in the spring and it meets just two days a week and it doesn't have an audition wind ensemble one tours extensively its recently played in Winnipeg Canada in Louisiana in Washington DC and it's recognized as one of the top performing concert bands in the United States you the pep band plays for all home games and in recent years has traveled with the Cyclones to postseason NIT and NCAA tournaments we currently have two very active jazz ensemble programs here at Iowa State University we call them our Jazz one and jazz two due to the popularity of these organizations we do have auditions in the early week of the fall semester for both bands and both of these groups experienced numerous opportunities to perform both on and off campus as well as our Jazz one which oftentimes accompanies our Wind Ensemble on an annual spring tour one of the real exciting things about our jazz programs here in Iowa State is the blending of the various talents that we get through the high school students that come from the high schools here in this state as well as through other selected high schools in the country it's a lot of hard work but a lot of fun hi we're back recorded live from media break 85 here in the Great Hall of Memorial Union with me is Dennis goring who's a senior student in the television curriculum and additionally a student director of the Iowa State marching band correct that's correct and you participated in the production of that tape that we've just seen something about of an event that was a great experience about last May was and we completed it in and it was a great experience for me it was good you know it's a good tape it's gonna help the band program a lot I hope okay you had really four different bands featured there and obviously you went on location with each one of them how did you shoot that tell us about shooting a little bit okay the oh kid a marching man was actually shot there in the stadium we took cameras over an extra States I'm a couple you know productions and that was a pretty low-key production but it was a tough one to do okay the second one was a jazz band we did that in the maintenance shop they actually took cameras over there took out four cameras shoot over there shot everything over there the wind ensemble was some shot in the recital hall and that was a switched production there we had a four camera shoot there and that was a really nerve-wracking one but it was a fun one and let's see the pep band was some shot was just a lot of takes and cuts over at the Hilton Coliseum and that was a fun one to cut together though because I'm Johnny's just a fun guy to follow around I tell us a little bit about how the production's being used now that it's finished okay we'll wrap in dumb joseph´s Kristen are are taking the tape around you know different schools and abuse it as I'm recruiting tape mainly just to show students that and we do have a good music program here at Iowa State alright thanks Dan it's good to talk with you I found an interesting tape myself we're going to go on now after a brief look at our media break logo will be back with those interviews we promised you about earlier recorded live November 7 from the Memorial Union at Iowa State University this is media break 1985 sponsored by the Iowa State University media Resources Center media break 85 showcases the new technologies of instruction recorded live this is media break 85 okay we're back with our live recording from media break 85 now I'm gonna visit briefly with Charlie Deutsch who's director of the Iowa State University photo service Charlie what kind of display we got going here today well we have a wide assortment of cameras our main attraction everything from Argosy threes up to wide-angle white Lux cameras so not only have you got the new technology you've got some of the old technology right right to show how far it's advanced my younger days all right let me step in behind you here and maybe Ralph can get a picture of some of these older cameras and you can point out what some of them are on the table here I see some oldies but goodies right here was one of the oldest that everybody knows about an old Argos III camera that dated back from the late forties about every one over 40 owned one of these one time or the other that's one of the very first 35 millimeter cameras then right 3-dimensional camera it shoots two pictures at the same time on a thirty five-millimeter frame and you put them in a special viewer and get three-dimensional photo okay what's this camera here with this great big long lens on it this is a telephoto that we use for football games it's a four hundred millimeter reaches out pretty far and has a motor drive in the camera so you can shoot four or five frames a second so you can stand on the sidelines and get the close-ups of the football player get them on the other side the only problem that get too close you can't get them in there all you get is a head okay what else have you got here this looks like a roll film camera here huh camera we have it's a called a white angle white Lux camera and it shoots a 140 degree angle this way you got to keep your fingers out of the way you'll get you pick fingers in the picture as the camera goes off the lens revolves you get it's on a 35 millimeter and you get one long picture on a 35 all right have you got examples of some of those shots made on that camera shoot just about the whole stadium from up in the corner aren't getting the sidelines and get all your players in the whole stadium the other side of the stadium in going now I understand that the photo service one of the newest technologies you're using is the is the new computer-generated slides can you tell us a little bit about that system right departments on campus and the information the central computer and several times a day will call it up on our terminal and if there's anything on there we recorded on slide film ekta cones live film and we can send it off and get it back overnight so the people have their slides the next day we running probably four or five hundred a month computer slides now that's wonderful that's that's a beautiful result on those two I've seen several of them the actual processing of the ultimate slide is the same as if it been shot in your regular cameras right and it's actually taken away from our slide business but we don't mind that we get it back the other way but there's a much nicer slide I think people are getting getting to use them more and more all right well thanks charlie we've been talking with Charlie joy Boyd's the director of the Iowa State University photo service and now Charlie if you'll let me step over your cable I'm gonna walk on down here and talk to the people from the Ames Public Library and ask them about their applications in the new technology TJ how are you and you're the director of the media program at the Williams library correct that's right it's sort of the old of the new library combined tell us how you're using the new technologies at the Ames public by new technologies I would probably say things like video and computers and that kind of thing we're using them in several different ways we loan out videotapes to people informational theatrical films and that kind of thing people can also watch their own videotapes in our library we have listening and viewing centers there we have for public access microcomputers one thing that you hear blaring in my ear too is impart of the new technology the library is involved in producing videotapes for public use they're aired on Ames public access cable vision that's kind of an exciting development to put information out of the print world and into the new technologies for people I should say now on one of my visits to the library recently I saw some micro computers there - you using some of those that's right we use four for public access there are two Apple 2e computers those are disk drive and there are two older ones which are cassette driven children use them adults use them and we have a variety of soft pieces of software that can be used in the library the software doesn't check out but there yeah so I can check that out and duplicate it needs to be used in the library okay and you say you have two microcomputers library - apples apple and then there are two Commodores which are cassette driven and then the video tapes you mentioned your circulating are they available in all the different formats what we only have half inch VHS standard play cassettes that seemed to be the format that was dominating the market so we decided instead of trying to do exam three port or anything like that we just stick to half inch tape well we're all going to look forward to coming down to the library and seeing some of that media thanks for talking with you TJ okay bye let's go on now and walk on down the road and have a chance to visit with the Iowa State University test an evaluation service hi Dorothy come on in I want you to meet our cameras and our viewers at home this is dorothy Lewis who is the director of the Iowa State University test and evaluation service now where are you located Dorothy okay and tell us about the services you make available to faculty testing evaluation services does all the computer scoring of answer sheets on campus in addition to that we do faculty evaluations we'll take research data off answer sheets we'll provide a computer gradebook to retain students scores over the period of semester and we also do item banking wherein instructors can load their test questions on to a file and generate test masters directly from a computer file oh that sounds like an interesting application now can they can they find test items from colleagues at other universities for example and incorporate them in banks that we can download to our system and then they can use the textbook item banks to generate their test questions you have to struggle sometimes with the permission to use those items or are they are they copy written really well they're probably copy written but if you buy the textbook the textbook companies will supply you with those questions for a fee naturally and then there's usually no problem with our downloading them to our system that's fine you've got the use of the questions and we can download them to our medium okay now I see that you have a microcomputer here is that some of the test item kind of student record or what is that for the microcomputer we wanted to expand our services to include those faculty members who don't use computers core testing and this system allows them to keep track of their students scores much in the same way that we do with in-house is our student record-keeping program they can add their essay scores their lab scores whatever and get the same sorts of printouts that we generate for our own test scoring patron okay so not only is it a service to help build the actual test but you're providing management services for keeping up the teachers old record book and that becomes quite a job for these instructors who have 300 400 or more students that they have to keep track of throughout a semester all right now is there a charge for your service to the faculty no not for instructional purposes we'll do the item banking the student record-keeping and the standard scoring for no fee at all that's just part of our mission at the University now for research and other sorts of projects there is a small fee but it is nominal it essentially just covers our costs are the main test item banks and that kind of thing kept in a micro computer as you have here are you working through the main computers on campus it's not on a micro it's on our own in-house system now we are not connected to another system and we think that that provides us an additional element of security by not having it on the mainframe all right well thanks very much for talking with us this is Dorothy Lewis from the Iowa State University test and evaluation service and that completes our current three interviews in this part of media break 85 we're going to be going on now and taking a look at one of our PSA messages another moment from the stop smoking clinic about our three teachers you don't have to be join the living these people have worked with others to break the smoking habit they joined a stop smoking clinic you can to sign up with a stop smoking clinic in your area recorded live November 7 from the Memorial Union at Iowa State University this is media break 1985 sponsored by the Iowa State University media Resources Center media break 85 showcases the new technologies of instruction recorded live this is media break 85 well we're back here in the Great Hall and I'd like to introduce you to Trudi Jacobson who's the director of the library instruction program here at the parks library at Iowa State University Trudi your your training all the undergraduates at Iowa State how to use the library that's right and that's a lot how many does that amount to a year well it's six thousand plus two hundred honor students two hundred honor students do they take a special version of the course the other students yes the others take it for a period of eight weeks and the honor students do it in either ten ten days to two weeks all right I'm I'm trying to ask some interesting questions here but I know that one of the reasons you're here and we're talking about this is that several years ago we produced a series of video tapes to help with your basic library instruction program and tell us a little bit about how you've been using them well first of all I'd like to say that we were two years in in deciding exactly what we were going to do and one of the problems when you have a required course and a library instruction is required is motivation because students if they find the courses required they really don't like to take it so we thought maybe if we could interject some film video take something a little bit different that this might help and you know as much about that as I do well it was it was an interesting project and we spent it probably a good year putting it together and producing it and it's been used and now it's a little bit outdated because of the new addition on the library so we're in the process of getting ready to produce that tape series over again last year we were able to use only one but now this fall we haven't been able to use any of them and we have the scripts ready and we are hopefully going to produce a new series examle well because that new series is not yet completed we will give you an opportunity to see an excerpt reel from the videotape that was produced about three years ago excerpts from library instruction 160 action we see I've got to do this paper on urban renewal and I really don't know where to start looking for stuff on urban reading right let's take five well I I guess you'll agree it's not exactly primetime TV well what these people are doing is well worth your watching the shooting is seen for the videotapes series that is the heart of the new required half semester course on how to use the library yeah library 160 you've gotta pass it to graduate well I'm here to tell you how to do just that the easy way and at the same time we'll really learn how to use the library when this tape ends you'll get a copy of his schedule it outlines just exactly what you have to do to meet the requirements to library 160 there are total of four videotapes to view including this one one per week for four weeks each is designed to introduce you to an aspect of using a library and it's tied to a section of your library instruction manual which well if you haven't purchased yet you ought to it's got everything you need to know to pass the course it provides backup detail to the tape and gives you a quiz type worksheet with the answers at the back of the manual and during the fourth week I'm gonna take you through a step-by-step procedure on how to complete the one required assignment for the course during the fifth week you'll come to the library and do that assignment that same week you can take the first shot at passing the required final test for the course you get three tries if needed so if you've watched the tapes read your manual and done that worksheet well you have no trouble at all being finished that last week and believe me that's better than screwing around til the last week cramming for the test bellowing it no and then having to be rescheduled to take a library 160 all over again look it's really not that hard besides knowing how to use the library I can help you with virtually all your other coursework and if you've got any questions your instructor will answer them when the tape ends but first I'm gonna take you on a brief tour of the library the ground floor right behind me is the library instruction classroom down that way is the library instruction laboratory where your grade to be posted well your instructor will tell you more about that later right here on the left is the reserve desk where some instructors will require you to come and read certain materials they place on reserve just up to the north is what they call the leisure reading collection it contains a lot of popular fiction and nonfiction as you can see by the sign the Micra form and media center is stopped at the left that's where you'll find tapes and other media some of what you'll use in this course well that's about it the 25 cent tour next week when you come back to your section meeting we'll look at tape two and how to locate books um serials in the library my friend Bacchus here plays a major role in tape 2 if the dog can find his way around the library so can you we'll see you next week good dog yeah so if you don't know the name of a particular author or the title of a particular book you use the subject count love and liquor topic up in it okay right yeah okay okay what do you think I guess okay urban renewal that's the subject we're looking for Lachman herb adores your author how studies are saved is the title don't write this down so we can find this thing and get out of here okay okay so all the books on urban renewal are going to have that same call number know all the books on urban renewal will have the HT 166 you see this library uses the Library of Congress classification system there are other systems too but the Library of Congress system uses a separate letter for each major class of knowledge the H and the card they're looking at stands for social science then a second letter denotes a subdivision in this case T stands for communities and numbers provide further subdivision so we've got HT 166 stands for City Planning and never been a renewal so to find this book you'll need to write down the whole call number okay okay got it all down good now we are book right wrong first we go check the circulation printout to make sure the book isn't already checked out come on it's over here raucous I want you to get H a 34.5 g9 it's 1976 it should be on the third floor and exclude okay hey pooch you should look here because the circulation printout can tell you if things are on reserve it's in call number order and it's updated by the computer every day same computer it's not even listed that's good means it's probably on the shelf according to the guide to the general collection Joe and Jamie will find the HTS they're looking for in floor three let's take a look floor three if you look at the signs on each row of shelves you'll find the section marked HTS hi today we're gonna go back to work on your literature search we'll begin by taking another look at the card catalog here I think I know a faster way to get there hmm looks like Joe and Jamie are still searching the card catalog Jamie what does it mean when the card has a little star above the call number oh that or the letters re f mean that that books in the reference collection hey they have a lot of useful stuff over there you might be able to help you with this paper come on let's go out already I thought the reference place was just for encyclopedias and junk like that well yeah they have encyclopedias but they have a lot of other stuff too hi can I help you yeah I was just telling old Joe here that you guys have more things in the reference collection than just encyclopedias you're right we do a lot of reference books do give basic information like encyclopedias handbooks directories and many others act as guides to sources of information like indexing services well we just found this card on urban planning and a subject catalog and it says that the book is here in the reference collection okay now already that's better okay um let's see oh um there is one other thing when you come to the reference area to do your assignment there'll be an instructor from the library 160 course stationed well just about there it's about it there really isn't much else I can tell you except you know the library is a powerful tool and knowing how to use that tool can help you learn and of course that's why we're all here here Bacchus I'm done with this take it back to third floor Bacchus look over here Bacchus I'm done with this now you can take it back to third Bacchus I'm done with this book now you can take it back to certain hey Bacchus Bacchus you know a shot Jojo Hey Bacchus Bacchus watch his shadow - Bacchus Bacchus hey let's try that again all kinds of dog bones you get home sit ok Hey well we're back recorded live with media break 85 you've just seen excerpts from the existing videotape series used by library instruction 160 here at Iowa State and in the immediate future is some interesting possibility for a new form of technology of instruction and that's interactive videotape I have with me Mike Albright whose coordinator for instructional development here at Iowa State mike has been working with a new interactive program and he's going to demonstrate it for Trudy Jacobson the director of the library instruction program so Mike tell us first of all what you've got here and what you're going to be showing us okay interactive video is a new technology that involves the marriage of of instructional computing the traditional computer assisted instruction with capabilities of video and so our components in this system are a standard microcomputer and a monitor and a video tape player we have produced this interactive video project on a topic that's dear to your heart doing a library literature search and in an interactive video program there's always a lot of what we call front-end work which in this case involves a careful planning of a flowchart which of course is typical of any computer assisted instruction and then the developing development of a computer program in this case one an apple soft basic which directs the computer assistant program instruction as well as the video segments that are employed in this program so let me run it here and we'll have a demonstration of how it works this is all based on a script right yes I have a set of these the video segments went through a scripting process just the same as any well the same as your video segments that we're done for library of 160 okay now we're getting into the program and it starts with a title perhaps the camera can get a close-up of the monitor here welcome to an interactive video experience and then is kind of a personal touch the program asked for my name so my name is Trudy for today it says it's very user friendly and so we're gonna get along very well with the computer program and then press return to continue now at this point we have an option as to seven or eight different disciplines geography elementary education animal science Business Administration so forth in which our simulated literature search can be conducted and so Business Administration is the one we're going to select then we go to topic selection we have an option of four different topics and so let's select physical fitness for business executives and then there's a random access aspect to this program so if we want to just see a video segment on reading catalog cards we can go directly to that but let's go on ahead and says now it's very important that we need to know about call numbers and it asks us if we want to see segments of videotape on call numbers so let's type in yes now at this point excuse me it's been a long day here at media break my voice is slowly fading away the tape is searching right now for the precise spot on the on the tape where this video segment starts and we're very lucky we found it and so now it should show us a piece of videotape on call numbers and it will come up any minute now there we go and so this is my brain keeps track of its books and periodicals so that they're always put in the right place on the right shelf people know where to look to find the ones they need they use a system of what are known as call numbers call numbers are the set of letters and numbers written on or attached to every publication turn the volume down here so I can talk about what happens the student in the in the program will see this piece of videotape which actually runs about about three or four minutes so I'm sure we don't have enough time to show it all and then come back to the program then we go into the next little segment talks about the process of reading a catalog card and searching for appropriate subject headings and subject index and so doesn't understand one of these segments can they can the student go back then yes there's there's capability built in where the students can rotate back through a segment and look at it a second time this looks to me like it has a lot of interesting potential I'm gonna run on now thanks for letting us look at your new interactive instructional program we're gonna go over now and interviewed enric assistant director of the media resources center about some of the new technologies that are available at the media resources so here we go recorded live November 7 from the Memorial Union at Iowa State University this is media break 1985 sponsored by the Iowa State University media Resources Center media break 85 showcases the new technologies of instruction recorded live this is media break 85 well we're back over on the other side of the Great Hall here at media break 85 and I'd like to introduce to you Don reek assistant director of the media resources center nuns in charge of our Media Services Division and as such as up on all the new technology that's being used instruction Don tell us about the trends well as you might guess by looking around the displays here every display has a television receiver monitor behind it so obviously the world of video as as found Iowa State and has found a media field not only the monitor kind of video but we have a great deal of projection video coming into the market in fact in the past year we've installed in the neighborhood of seven or eight video projectors here at Iowa State in major auditoriums or classrooms for projecting video on flat screen for computer display as well as the normal videotape display now these are the large screen projectors like I guess got their first play and in some of the bars when a football game was on very similar to those most of the what we're installing however are a direct display rather than a reflected display so there are a little better quality and can do more things than what you saw early on in the bar well I don't want to admit I was there but is this one of those devices back here the newest thing on the market a device a single tube or single gun projector that includes right in the projector the playback unit this particular one also has a neat feature that it has a 20 watt PA system in it and an audio deck so you can record what you're doing it's a self-contained seminar media seminar if you take it into a seminar room or a general classroom this particular one will not function very well in a large auditorium it's intended for small group use you might just use this the same way you use a 25 or 30 inch television set that's right or a film projector or slide projector unit similar to that only video well you mentioned film and slide projectors those are the more traditional and older what audio-visual formats are we still using a lot of that medium very surprisingly the amount of request and the amount of faculty that I deal with in consulting on equipment continues to be in all areas of media equipment the traditional slide projector the traditional overhead the 16 millimeter are still in the media world and will continue to be and and there are new updated models of those that make them work better as well and we continue to buy in advance in those fields - I noticed behind you here a sign that talks about the campus GSB equipment distribution tell us a little bit about the what do we call it the GSB pool right we have two equipment pools and media resources one of them is funded by the University and media resources and is available of the faculty and staff for their classroom and instructional activities the other pool is what we call our GSB pool it's funded by the government of student body and is specifically designated for use by students gotta be a card-carrying student have their current fee card and ID and you can check out any of about all there's two three hundred pieces of media equipment in that pool and you can use them for your class activities for presentation you're doing for a project you're doing or for your own personal or entertainment type uses what general kinds of equipment are there is it a complete mix of traditional audio-visual and video as well it's a complete mix much as we have in the faculty pool in fact sometimes we jokingly say that the GSP fool has more in it than the faculty pool one of those those cases might be this video projector right here it is in the GSB pool currently we don't have that same unit in the faculty pool so the students have got a leg up on the faculty on that one yes would that also be the case with your new international format player yes just arrived a couple days ago is back me here is a a pal/secam monitor and playback deck for playing back the format's from around the world as you know the American format isn't standard across the world and we do get a lot of tapes brought in by foreign students and faculty who travel for playback and they will not play on the American system equipment so now we are capable of playing those tapes in either pal or SECAM thanks Don we've been talking with Don Rick one of 38 display exhibitors here at media break 85 and we like to roll for you now that list of credits of all of those participants here at media break 85 you