Especially For Students

Almagest Lecture Builder

ETC's Almagest database is used to organize and deliver slide and media presentations in any classroom equipped with an internet connection and a digital projector. Course materials are also used for study and review by any student with an internet connection.

To request this service, contact the Educational Technologies Center at 258-6905 or send e-mail to almagest@princeton.edu. See also Digital media storage, digitizing, cataloguing, and online display and http://almagest.princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

AV equipment rental

Media Services provides general audiovisual equipment support for classes and student groups on a "user will pick up" basis. There is no charge for course-related events and equipment, or for use of permanent equipment in a classroom. All other applications are chargeable.

To request this service, contact Media Services at 258-3196, fax 258-1228, or send e-mail to media@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

AV technician services

For non-course events Media Services will provide certain services, as requested, but at a fee. Applicable services include: on-site technicians, videographers, and student operators. Overtime rates are charged outside normal working hours.

To request this service, contact Media Services at 258-3196, fax 258-1228, or send e-mail to media@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

Blackboard course management system

Blackboard provides an easy-to-use environment for storing course information and documents. It also has a full set of faculty-student communication tools, such as class discussion groups, e-mail, digital file drop for submitting/returning assignments, and online assessments.

OIT automatically builds Blackboard sites for all Princeton courses. If you have questions visit the Faculty Courseware Center at room 114 Frist Campus Center, call 258-0737, or send e-mail to blackboard@princeton.edu. See also General Info about Bb at Princeton and In-office technology tutorials.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

CD/DVD duplication and printing

The New Media Center offers a charged service of limited CD/DVD duplication of non-copyrighted materials. The NMC also offers charged service for limited CD/DVD printing.

To request this service, contact the the New Media Center at 258-6073 or send e-mail to newmedia@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

Classroom AV equipment

Media Services maintains stationary audiovisual support systems for use by Princeton classes, and provides hands-on training on all aspects of those systems. Media Services also performs equipment maintenance, repairs and alignments.

To request this service, contact Media Services at 258-3196, fax 258-1228, or send e-mail to media@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

Color printing

The New Media Center has two color printers available to our walk-in customers. Customers can print on matte or glossy stock at letter or tabloid sizes. Use of our color pages is chargeable on a per-page basis.

To request this service, contact the the New Media Center at 258-6073 or send e-mail to newmedia@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Course e-mail lists

Faculty can send e-mail to all students in a course using their own mail software, or through the Blackboard course management system.

Course e-mail lists are part of the Blackboard system and are automatically built for all Princeton courses. If you have questions visit the Faculty Courseware Center at room 114 Frist Campus Center, call 258-0737, or send e-mail to blackboard@princeton.edu. See also Blackboard FAQ and Blackboard course management system.

For: Faculty Students

Custom application development for humanities computing

On a limited basis, ETC creates specialized applications that go beyond the core functionality provided by Almagest and TextGarden.

To request this service, contact Paula Hulick at 258-6009 or send e-mail to plhulick@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Demonstrate language learning materials to faculty

HRC staff will identify and demonstrate newly acquired interactive multimedia materials and delivery tools for language instruction to faculty for integration into the curriculum or independent study.

To request this service, contact the Humanities Resource Center at 258-2114 or send e-mail to hrc@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Electronic text collection management

The core infrastructure of ETC is TextGarden, an interactive XML database of etexts and other media where faculty may store collections of digitized primary sources along with scholarly annotations. Features include content management, granular searching, advanced hypertext, and blog-like interactivity.

To request this service, contact Paula Hulick at 258-6009 or send e-mail to plhulick@princeton.edu. See also Electronic text creation.

For: Faculty Students

Electronic text creation

ETC aids faculty in the creation of electronic texts from analog materials.

To request this service, contact Paula Hulick at 258-6009 or send e-mail to plhulick@princeton.edu. See also Electronic text collection management.

For: Faculty Students

Event simulcast

The Broadcast Center maintains equipment for simulcasting Princeton University events, part of which can be passed to the appropriate OIT department for web streaming and ultimate archiving. Simulcasts use campus TV channel 7 and are distributed to the community over Patriot Media channel 27.

To request this service, contact Broadcast Center at 258-7872 or send e-mail to bctv@princeton.edu. See also Videotaping for academic events.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

Foreign language audio, video, and cable TV

The Humanities Resource Center (HRC) supports the use of audio, video, and multimedia materials for specific assignments and for self-directed study.

To request this service, contact the Humanities Resource Center at 258-2114 or send e-mail to hrc@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Geographic Information Systems support and development

ETC offers development and support of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for teaching and research, including software such as ESRI's ArcGIS and Leica Geosystem's Imagine. ETC provides customized training in GIS concepts and software use, and creates browser-based mapping applications.

To request this service, contact the Educational Technologies Center at 258-4609 or send e-mail to wguthe@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Grant writing for IT-based projects

ETC aids faculty in the grants acquisition process by providing technological advice and, in some cases, writing grant proposals.

To request this service, contact Paula Hulick, 258-6009 or send e-mail to plhulick@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Help using digital media, and access to scanning and digital AV equipment at the New Media Center

The New Media Center has advertised walk-in hours when customers can stop in for assistance in the areas of web publishing, coding/scripting, typesetting, graphics development, and video/audio/multimedia projects. Experienced customers can book time on our machines to work on projects.

To request this service, contact the the New Media Center at 258-6073 or send e-mail to newmedia@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students

High performance computing resources for science and engineering

CSES provides High Performance Computing resources including the adrOIT Beowulf cluster and the Princeton OIT Condor pool. These resources are available as teaching tools, prototyping tools and production research tools.

To request this service, contact Computational Science and Engineering Support at 258-6033 or send e-mail to raas@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Humanities computing project consultation

ETC provides technological consultations services for faculty engaged in large-scale research projects.

To request this service, contact Janet Temos at 258-6905 or send e-mail to jtemos@princeton.edu. See also Faculty consultation and design services for teaching with technology.

For: Faculty Students

IT training

Each term Academic Services offers a series of free brown bag lunch lectures and hands-on workshops to instruct our customers in new media topics and applications. Although workshop enrollment is currently limited to faculty and students, anyone from the University community may attend our lectures.

To register for training use our training signup page, call Academic Services at 258-7331, or send e-mail to aseducat@princeton.edu. See also Specialized training for course needs.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

Language Learning software

The HRC distributes language audio and video materials, predominantly online. We also have a collection of language learning software available for use in the LRC

To request this service, contact the Humanities Resource Center at 258-2114 or send e-mail to hrc@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Media sales to New Media Center walk-in customers

The New Media Center keeps a small stock of digital storage media for sale to its walk-in consulting customers so they can take their projects with them when they leave.

To request this service, contact the the New Media Center at 258-6073 or send e-mail to newmedia@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

Office Hours Scheduling System

This system lets faculty (or others) create one or more office hour schedules. Students (or others) access these schedules using a web browser, and can use the schedules to set up an appointment. When they do so, the faculty member receives an e-mail notification, and the student can opt to have a reminder sent to them the day prior to the appointment. The system lets faculty change, view and modify their schedules, with appropriate e-mail notifications sent to anyone having a scheduled appointment. Students can see their pending appoinments, and cancel them if necessary.

To request this service, visit the following web address: http://www.princeton.edu/as/ohscheduler.shtml.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Princeton software repository

CSES provides repositories for basic software commonly used in research. This software includes both public and commercial licensed software.

To request this service, contact Computational Science and Engineering Support at 258-6033 or send e-mail to raas@princeton.edu. See also http://psr.princeton.edu and http://www.Princeton.EDU/licenses/Software_Request.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Programming training

CSES provides programming training through a number of avenues including talks and workshops on programming technique and style, web links to programming resources, individual meetings and sponsorship of seminars related to scientific programming technology.

To request this service, contact Computational Science and Engineering Support at 258-6033 or send e-mail to curt@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Specialized training for course needs

Academic Services provides training in selected new media topics for Princeton courses (e.g., in-class demos of Blackboard or special sessions on building student course web projects).

To request this service, contact Academic Services at 258-2949 or send e-mail to lavora@princeton.edu. See also IT training.

For: Faculty Students

Text-encoding training

ETC holds seminars for graduate students in the area of e-text creation, text encoding and xml database usage.

To request this service, contact Janet Temos at 258-6905 or send e-mail to jtemos@princeton.edu. See also Electronic text creation and Electronic text collection management.

For: Faculty Students

Training in use of classroom facilities

Media Services offers training for faculty, AI's, and students in operation of classroom media facilities.

To request this service, contact Media Services at 258-3196 fax 258-1228 or send e-mail to media@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Video collection

The HRC manages and circulates the University's collection of DVD's, laserdiscs and VHS tapes.

To request this service, contact the Humanities Resource Center at 258-2114 or send e-mail to hrc@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Staff Students

Video reserves

The HRC has charge of the University's video reserves and provides the appropriate viewing technology.

To request this service, contact the Humanities Resource Center at 258-2114 or send e-mail to hrc@princeton.edu.

For: Faculty Students

Videoconferencing

Media Services supports the Wallace and Friend videoconferencing facilities, including training, maintenance and operating conferencing sessions. Course-related events are free of charge.

To request this service, contact the Registrar's Office at 258-3362 or send e-mail to jessica@princeton.edu. For questions about the technical details of Princeton's videoconferencing facilities, contact OIT Media Services at 258-3195.

For: Faculty Staff Students Alumni

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