Faculty Multimedia Center

Faculty Multimedia Center, a computer and training lab located on UCF's main campus, is dedicated to serving the UCF faculty's need to be on the cutting edge of mediated teaching and learning. Its primary function is to aid faculty, GTA's, and administration in developing instructional multimedia materials. Located in the Classroom Building Rm 202 (CL1 202), FMC offers a variety of services to UCF faculty who want to incorporate technology into their classes.

UCF faculty, adjuncts, and visiting professors are welcome to stop by the FMC, meet our staff, and use our equipment:
Hardware:
30 Pentium PCs
5 Macintosh G4s
1 Macintosh G5s

Film/Slide Scanners
Flatbed Scanners (Document s& Photo Prints)
CD Writers
CD Duplicator
Digital Cameras
Color and B&W Printers (Paper and Transparency Material)

Large Format Poster Printer
Real Media Audio and Video Streaming
Software: Photoshop, PowerPoint, Office XP suite, Camtasia, Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Page maker, Authorware, Freehand, Adobe Acrobat, OmniPage Pro and much more.

Our staff offers a wide range of services. The FMC's motto is
"We are here to help you.".

Our strong points are:
One-on-one production help, tutoring and training
Continuous software training sessions in our multimedia classroom lab

Developing graphics for brochures, posters and multimedia presentations
Producing CD-ROM and DVD materials
High quality audio and video tapes, disks and streams
Produce multimedia instructional materials
Testing and consulting in new technology
Our goal is to empower faculty to create the graphics, presentations, and other tools to enhance learning materials for use in the classroom and on the World Wide Web.
As a member of the New Media Centers consortium, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization helping institutions of higher education enhance teaching and learning through the use of new media, we share this goal with other Universities and corporations both nationally and internationally.

With the explosion in technology, it is necessary to keep faculty current with software and hardware advances. Training is a large part of the FMC's function. We've coached, tutored and trained faculty on a variety of software and topics including Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, and HTML. The result of this training becomes evident in the quality of the materials being presented in multimedia classrooms, at meetings with colleagues, at symposiums and as speaker support for university administration.

In support of university classes, the FMC provides faculty with a place to test the latest software and to be updated on World Wide Web activities. This enables faculty to bypass ineffective methodology by providing the best working models for modern teaching methods. Many of these examples come from international sources via connections made on the internet.

The FMC serves as a hub for interdisciplinary contact between UCF faculty allowing them to share successes and advance learning at the University of Central Florida.
For information or assistance contact Ryan Retherford at 823-2571 or email rretherf@mail.ucf.edu