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The Duderstadt Center provides all U-M students, faculty and staff 24/7 access to a state-of-the-art multimedia facility housing the Architecture, Art and Engineering Library, Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), Millennium Project, and the Digital Media Commons (DMC), and offers computer training rooms video-conferencing rooms specialty labs and studios exhibit gallery a café, and 360 workstations accessible on a drop-in basis. These resources are designed to support students and faculty, individually or in groups, in creative scientific and artistic projects. The Digital Media Commons supports the labs and studios housed in the Duderstadt Center: Collaborative Technologies Lab Digital Media Tools Lab UM3D Lab Usability, Support and Evaluation Lab Collaborative Technologies Lab Collaborative Technologies Lab software architects, working with U-M faculty and drawing on long experience in creating collaboratories have led the Sakai Project since 2003. Sakai is a community open-source software project creating shared tools that enable higher education to develop collaborative learning environments that are responsive to each university’s needs. Over 150 universities across the globe have joined the U-M’s • • • • • • • • • • commitment to support the development of Sakai, and hundreds more are piloting this environment. CTools CTools is the collaborative learning environment created specifically for the U-M, from the Sakai project code- base. A powerful collaborative and course-management environment, CTools enables faculty to bridge their research and teaching using a single tool, and to create collaborative information-sharing spaces. As of early 2006, there were 47,000 active CTools users at the U-M, with more than 98% of students using it for their coursework. Digital Media Tools Lab The Digital Media Tools Lab supports students and faculty engaged in projects and research with the following studios and collaborative tools that provide space, resources, and the guidance of experienced technical and creative staff. GROCS: Grant Opportunities [Collaborative Spaces] GROCS is an experimental program that provides collaborative space, equipment and funding for student-initiated interdisciplinary research that employ rich media — audio, video, animation, virtual reality constructions or other data visualized over time. Grant proposals are accepted each year, due in late October. Audio Studio A professional digital multi-track recording studio featuring a new 40-channel, analog API Vision surround sound mixing and recording console. Electronic Music Studio Two research laboratories equipped with digital audio and MIDI workstations for composition, synthesis, design, processing, sequencing, and mastering of electronic sound. Video Studio Outfitted with professional sound, lighting, and projection equipment, the Video Studio provides a space for students and faculty to experiment with integrating performance arts and technology Multimedia Workrooms Professional quality HDV/DV video editing and DVD authoring workstations. GroundWorks Media Conversion Lab Provides resources to convert media from one form to another; video editing stations for short, simple projects; DVD Recorder for recording video formats to DVD. The V-Room — a recording booth for digital audio and video recording directly to a computer file, CD, or podcast — acoustically simulates a variety of venues. Large format poster printing is available. BlueStream An online environment with powerful features for analyzing, manipulating and collaborating with digital video, audio, images, and documents in higher education; unlike traditional repositories, BlueStream generates and synchronizes time-coded metadata to expose the content of rich media. 3D Motion Capture Video Studio Gallery
