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Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar's online learning portal for visualizing data to facilitate research, communication, and conservation
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For students The Media Teaching Lab offers a wide variety of equipment to undergraduate and graduate students for use in photography, video, film, and audio production. Many resources are limited to students enrolled in specific courses, but some more general equipment is available for checkout by any student.
For instructional faculty. Studio U is a free-to-use resource for the campus to support the creation of video content for instruction and academic programs serving on-campus audiences. With simple push-button controls, you'll be able to record green screen, learning glass, screen annotation or other kinds of videos. Once finished you will walk away with a USB thumb drive containing a completed video you made all by yourself.
Combines the previous three labs (Innovation Lab, Digital Memory Lab, IDEA Lab) into one convenient space for all your making, digitizing, and digital media needs.
The Digital Memory Lab is an innovative do-it-yourself space for digitizing various audio/visual media formats, as well as scanning documents, slides, and negatives.
3D Printing Resources
The Digital Media Lab no longer offers 3D printing, but we recommend the following alternatives:
The UCSD Makerspace is an open-access, community-focused workshop for everyone at UCSD, regardless of department or experience level. We support making in every form, from research to artwork, personal projects to entrepreneurship.
All undergraduate engineering students as well as undergraduate and graduate visual arts students have access to EnVision. To use the resources in the lab, go to the Student Portal (link at top of page) and fill out the Responsibility Contract. You will receive a confirmation email once you have been granted access. Access to trainings for specific machines is also available through the Student Portal.
Skilled machinists work with campus researchers and external clients to design and fabricate specialized equipment that is not available on the market.
Canva is an online graphic design platform that allows you to create and edit various types of visual content, such as videos, slideshows, images, social media posts, presentations, logos, and more.
This guide provides an overview of a variety of tools for creating and editing video, audio and print materials. In addition, tools to help with research and organization are also included.
