As a part of the DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) program at Rice University, Makiko Hirata, a PhD student at Rice Shepherd Music School, had to pick an independent project that would promote music students as a performer and/or a pedagogue to their prospective audiences, presenters, and employers. With help and support of DMC staff, Makiko had made a series of youtube videos that explained the basics of Western classical music, relating it to broader topics of music history, theory, physics of sound, etc.
With DMC help, a few graphs had been created for a published article named “Journal of Palliative Medicine” authored by Kirsten Ostherr, a professor of English department. For more information, visithttp://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jpm.2015.0341
ELEC 305 is a junior level EE course on device physics. As part of the course assignments every Spring semester, small teams of students are asked to make short videos on a topic related to device physics, integrated circuits, transmission lines, or antennas for an audience of college students in an online course such as those offered by Coursera or the Khan Academy. The goal of the video assignment is to explain how something works and to apprise viewers of real world-applications.
DMC Support: The DMC offers in-class training that covers DMC resources (audio/video equipment, audio/video editing software), recording and editing tips and tricks, ways to create whiteboard animations, etc., and provides assistance in post-production process. DMC staff are invited to judge the video competition based on the criteria course instructor provides.
This course is offered by Kirsten Ostherr, a professor of English & Director of the Medical Future Lab. In English 386, students worked in small groups to apply critical thinking and theory to hand-on design to create solutions to real -world medical communication, visualization, and design problems.
In this class, the students were supposed to produce 6-8 minutes documentaries that comprise an approximately 60 minutes “syllabus” documentary on the role of play in various sub-fields of developmental psychology. The videos should contain a theoretical background as well as interviews.
DMC Support: Students checked out video cameras, tripods, audio recorders, microphones from the DMC to record their footage. DMC staff trained the students how to use the equipment.
In this class, students were asked to produce a short video on a piece of medieval and renaissance music in small teams. The video should include historical and cultural context for the piece and the composer; an analysis of the score; and a performance of the piece.
DMC Support: The DMC offered in-class training that covered DMC resources (audio/video equipment, audio/video editing software), recording and editing tips and tricks, etc., and provided assistance in post-production process.
The Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA) is a research archive focusing on Houston’s Asian American immigrant experience. Oral histories in digital audio format are major part of their collections. Between 2013-2015, the DMC provided training to the project interns and the students who were enrolled in 387 AACC class on how to record an interview with DMC audio recorders, how to edit the audio, and how to transcribe the recording . For more information about HAAA project, visit http://chaocenter.rice.edu/haaa/
