What We Do in the ATL

ATL consultants provide training and support for the development of instructional materials including interactive presentations, videos, DVDs and podcasts. The ATL has an audio recording and digitizing studio, digital video editing systems, flatbed scanners with document feeders and a slide scanner.

Faculty also receive assistance integrating technology tools into their courses. ATL staff provide consultations for web-based forums and online learning management systems such as CourseWork. In addition, ATL support includes curriculum planning, technical instruction, software and hardware purchase recommendations, implementation of curricula and course evaluation.

The ATL supports collaboration and project partnerships as primary techniques for promoting faculty use of academic technology.

Lab staff:

1. Work with faculty to identify teaching and research needs, and then assist in the planning, development, and production of actual projects.

2. Guide faculty as they work on actual projects, providing hands-on technical assistance as well as developing help documentation and user guides.  

Examples of ATL Projects

	Audio Guides for the Cantor Arts Center Mark Feldman and Kristen Olson PWR 2 Speaking About Art: Narrating the Cantor’s Collections ATL consultants have collaborated with Mark Feldman (Program in Writing and Rhetoric) and Kristen Olson (Academic & Educational Technology Liaison) to implement student-written audio guides at the Cantor Arts Center.
	Video on CourseWork and iTunes U Cecil Brown Classics 130: From Homer to Hip Hop ATL staff assisted Cecil Brown with his Classics 130 From Homer to Hip Hop course's lecture capture and media encoding for video distribution on iTunesU and CourseWork.
	Podcast Production Nicholas Jenkins The ATL also provides support for the production of Associate Professor of English, Nicholas Jenkins's, Wave poetry podcast in the ATL recording studio.

ATL Staff

The following are full-time staff of the Academic Technology Lab:

Kimberly Hayworth
Manager, Academic Technology Lab
650.799.6539

Kimberly consults with faculty on strategies for integrating technology into teaching, learning and research. Kimberly has over 10 years of experience in instructional technology. Kimberly manages Stanford's Community iTunes U site and has been an Academic Technology Specialist as well as a member of the CourseWork (learning management system) design and support teams. She has also worked at Loyola Law School as an instructional technology specialist and was a curriculum developer and instructor for the Multimedia University Academy at the University of Southern California.

In addition to her background in education, Kimberly spent two years as a producer in a web design and multimedia development firm which specialized in online games and Flash interfaces. She managed projects for clients such as Warner Bros, E! Online, Nickelodeon, and Fox Family.

Kimberly holds a master's degree in French with an emphasis in Educational Technology from Washington State University and specializes in multimedia project management, video and audio production.

Elijah Meeks
Digital Humanities Specialist
650.387.6170

Elijah is based in the Academic Technology Lab and is responsible for consulting with Humanities faculty on scholarly projects to identify technical approaches, processes and tools. He also evaluates and integrates existing software tools for use in the Humanities, as well as designing and implementing new applications. Elijah will collaborate closely with the Academic Technology Specialist Program as well as with others in Academic Computing Services.

Elijah came to to the ATL from the University of California, Merced interdisciplinary World Cultures Graduate Group where he's been implementing digital humanities projects and working with undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, librarians and technical staff while pursuing his Ph.D. in Digital Humanities . Alongside Ruth Mostern, he recently completed the Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty , which utilizes MySQL and ArcGIS to visualize and analyze political change in medieval China.

Elijah specializes in databases, spatial analysis, modeling and representation of processes using abstraction and animation and has experience with a variety of toolsets to create interesting visualizations or analysis such as ArcGIS, MySQL, ActionScript and PHP.

ATL Resources

	Introduction to Digital Video Production Presentation provides basic information about preparing for video projects. Includes an overview of video production planning, timelines for milestones, project team roles, workflows,  fundamentals of composition and camera technique.
	Digital Audio Production Tips Presentation provides tips to consider when setting up to record audio. Includes an overview of audio production and post production software, production workflows as well information about copyright, finding creative commons content and working with iTunes metadata.
	Academic Technology Lab Audio Software Overview Table provides information about audio software (Audacity, GarageBand and iTunes). Includes a brief list of features and tips for deciding which software to use in production projects. For more information, see Digital Audio Production Tips.
	Podcasting Overview Presentation provides an introduction to podcasting. In addition to basic background, it includes information about Stanford on iTunes.
	Apple DVD Player - Creating Bookmarks & Video Clips Step by step instructions for setting reusable bookmarks and creating video clips using the Apple DVD Player. Bookmark and clip information for a disc is saved and will be available whenever that DVD is inserted in the DVD drive.