Mission: The Multimedia Scriptorium facilitates the creation, publication and distribution of multimedia courseware and other scholarly works by faculty, students and staff of the University of Texas - Houston.

Experts in all areas of scholarly endeavor recognize that a major paradigm shift in education is underway - that the roles of educators and educational institutions and the processes by which students and scholars acquire education and knowledge are changing. This shift results from the coalescence of human knowledge into a dynamic, interactive repository, the National Information Infrastructure (NII). This repository can be accessed by virtually anyone at any place and at any time. Interactions with the repository will vary to meet the unique educational and informational needs of individual students and biomedical professionals. What is developing is a "virtual classroom" that will support the transformation of learning into a hands-on process that actively engages the student's minds and imagination and fosters lifelong learning.

The University of Texas-Houston is dedicated to utilizing this repository to provide the highest quality education possible in the health sciences. In addition, the University is committed to the development of scholarly courseware and content for the repository that is designed to meet the specific needs of the health sciences. The Multimedia Scriptorium is a creative resource that facilitates this mission. 

The Multimedia Scriptorium team assists the university in development of a variety of projects ranging from complex courseware to simply designed departmental web pages. The team provides some fee-for-service work, as well as contributing their time to worthy projects at no charge.

The Multimedia Scriptorium (MmS) is: People, Expertise, Passion, Provisions

People: The MmS is staffed by the Office of Academic Computing. OAC can provide server space for UT functions and entities, plus some general instructions on the use and capabilities of the provisions with the MmS lab.

Expertise: The staff includes a teacher, artists, a content developer, and a Flash designer. Other OAC staff members are brought in as needed.

Passion: In order to do anything well, you must be passionate about it, and the staff of the MmS is passionate about making good pages and graphics. Anyone can make a website, but not everyone is educated on how to make good web sites, courseware and scholarly works. We hope to be allowed to show you the difference and infuse in you the desire to excel.

Provisions: A lab area, with computers, a scanner, digitizing equipment, loads of software, samples, how-to walk-throughs and more, are available to UT-Houston faculty, staff and students at no charge. (Click here to go to the list of Lab Provisions.)

Please make an appointment by calling the OAC office (x3501) to make sure the lab (and staff, if you need them) is available.
 
Our online provisions include:
link to samples

Tools and Samples ... Examples of elements needed to create good web pages including some buttons and bars. Also, some examples of graphics programs and a system for using them effectively for the Web is included
link to how-to's

How To's ...These walk-throughs will guide you through simple skills, like formatting a disk, to digitizing audio.
link to gallery

Scriptorium Gallery ... The Gallery is a showcase! See some learning resources as well as nifty graphics.

Scriptorium Textbook ... In the textbook, the concepts for creating learning resources and scholarly works are discussed. Plus there are links to relevants educational material for copyright, design, and more.
link to templates

Templates ... This area includes some sample html documents that you can edit to create your own web pages.
link to contacts

and if your questions still are not answered, please Contact Us.

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