UMAKE DO-IT-YOURSELF FACILITIES, RESOURCES AND TRAINING

UMAKE MEDIA

The Media Production unit at USask provides professional media consultation and production services for our community's teaching and learning, research mobilization, and communications needs. The UMake Media resources found on this site are aimed at sharing our extensive experience and expertise with you, our USask community, and to help you make your production project great. Whether you need a dedicated recording space for presentations or interviews or some tutorials on capturing better audio and video, Media Production has you covered with the resources and supports to help UMake Media!

DIY FACILITIES

Do-it-yourself media production facilities that allow you to create professional video assets for a variety of uses. Create learning materials for a flipped or online course. Support research mobilization with motion picture. Produce communications materials that tell a story.

UCREATE STUDIO

This DIY Recording Studio is a dedicated video capture room where instructors can easily record professional looking lectures and presentations with easy and leave with a finished video file on their USB drive. The UCreate offers a simple way to create academic presentations, video communications or record interviews with minimal support needed. Free for USask faculty and staff members.

LIGHTBOARD STUDIO

A lightboard or learning glass is a device for creating interactive videos for teaching and learning. It is a glass panel with LED lights that can be written on with markers. The instructor faces the camera and writes on the glass, and the image is flipped for the viewers. It helps the instructor communicate effectively and illustrate complex concepts visually. It can be used for various subjects that involve technical or graphical content .

DIY RESOURCES AND TRAINING

Do-it-yourself media production facilities that allow you to create professional video assets for a variety of uses. Create learning materials for a flipped or online course. Support research mobilization with motion picture. Produce communications materials that tell a story.

DIY RESOURCES

Production guides, video tutorials, tips and tricks for producing your own media masterpieces.

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING

Media workshops and training opportunities from the USask Media Production professionals.

Tutorials, Samples, and Tips

UCreate and Lightboard Studio User Guides!

We now have DIY Guides available for the UCreate Studio and Lightboard Studio managed by Media Production in the Education Building. These guides include: Quick start information Step-by-step setup instructions Best-practices tips and tricks Media design considerations and pre-planning tips As well as post-production workflows and delivery strategies for your media files. Let us introduce …

Media Production for Curriculum

Media Production’s professional and experienced staff of instructional designers, producers and technicians can provide support and consultation on a wide variety media projects related to teaching and learning. Producing media-based curriculum for online, flipped, or blended courses can leverages the expertise of colleagues, external partners, and industry professionals for use term after term. Let Media …