The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies is pleased to announce the opening of its new Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS). Made possible through the generous support of and collaboration between the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), the Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair in New Technologies and Society, and the John Hope Franklin Center, IMPS provides Duke University faculty, staff and students with opportunities to experiment with new modes of technology-inflected teaching, research and collaboration.
IMPS is a highly configurable space:
- Organize trapezoidal furniture into clusters to facilitate both small and large group interaction.
- Group around individual plasmas for intensive work sessions, and return to a central conference table to share results.
- Collaborate internationally over IP videoconference connections while recording interaction to DVD-R.
- Annotate a powerpoint in the midst of its delivery, and record a class presentation to podcast format.
- Capture images of a whiteboard-based brainstorming session and review them later over the web.
IMPS includes:
- Four 50" plasmas screens
- XGA projection system
- Seven laptop and five component and S-video inputs, fully routeable to any display
- DVD playback with surround sound
- IP-based videoconferencing and web streaming
- Mobile Multimedia Mac Cluster integration
- PC-based plasma annotation system
- Wireless ethernet
- Full-room-audio and video-source recording to DVD-R and Lectopia (podcast/vodcast/streaming)
- Copycam whiteboard capture system
- Wireless room control
The Franklin Center is currently accepting proposals from Duke faculty interested in leveraging the capabilities of IMPS for their Spring 2007 courses. Interested faculty should submit a course description, desired meeting day(s)/time(s), and a paragraph indicating how the IMPS would be used to enhance or extend the course, in terms of both pedagogical approach and content. Please reference specific technologies.
Proposals should be submitted online and are due October 5, 2007. Please fill out the form completely. Questions? Contact Victoria Szabo (ves4@duke.edu)
All proposals will be evaluated and faculty notified by October 12, 2007. Proposals will be evaluated by representatives from the John Hope Franklin Center, Information Science + Information Studies, and the Jenkins Collaboratory.
IMPS is available to the entire Duke community for meetings, working groups, seminars and public lectures that make use of the room's unique technologies.‡ Resident units of the Franklin Center may make reservations at any time. All other interested parties must make their reservations requests no later than two weeks prior to their event (but no earlier than two months prior).
‡ The Franklin Center has many other spaces that can be reserved if your event does not require the technologies specific to IMPS.
- IMPS is available by reservation only.
- A training session is required before use. Please make arrangements at least two weeks before your event.
- Food is allowed in IMPS, but food service must be set up OUTSIDE the room, in the hallway.
- Leaving food or trash in the room will result in suspension of use privileges.
- Please allow ample time before your class or event to configure the space for your use.
- Use by student groups and classes is allowed only with instructor or Franklin Center staff supervision.
- BE SURE THE EQUIPMENT IS SECURED AND ROOM LOCKED at the completion of your event.