The following resources and services are provided by the Scriptorium:

• Workshops covering the appropriate design, development and use of multimedia works. Workshops are free of charge to UT-Houston faculty, staff and students. Signup for classes by contacting OAC at 713-500-3501. Workshops presently being offered by the Scriptorium team include:
• Basics is HTML
• Introduction to the HTML tool Dreamweaver®
• Dreamweaver® II
• Introduction to the graphics tool Fireworks®
• Fireworks® II
• the toolbars of Flash®
• Introduction to the animation tool Flash®
• courseware management using Blackboard®
• Assistance for authors in the design of multimedia/hypermedia works
• Information regarding the selection of appropriate technologies
• Hypertext markup language (HTML) writing tools (Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver)
• CGI programming
• Graphic applications and graphic support service providers (CorelDRAW®, Corel PHOTO-PAINT®, Flash®, Fireworks®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe Photoshop®)
• Digitization of images (Scanner, drawing with the use of a lightboard)
• Optical Character Reading OCR (Scanning a page of text so that text is then editable)
• Audio technologies (conferencing, streaming, etc.)
• Synchronized multimedia (Real Producer)
• Video production providers (UT Television)
• Desktop video and MPEG Video Compression
• White board conferencing applications
• Java and JavaScript programming tools and support service providers
• Network access bandwidth considerations, content design, file management design
• Development and production of CD ROM based offerings
• Copyright Information
• Publishing Support (Permission to file/directories, ID's, directory support, use of web publishing space, optional web publishing tools)
• High performance multimedia workstations
• Vector graphics applications
• Bit mapped image processing applications
• Scientific visualization tools
• Java, C and C⁺⁺ compilers
• Internet distribution and archiving of scholarly works, including the UT Press
• Publish/Web Design Support

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The Workstations
The UT-Houston Office of Academic Computing Multimedia and Courseware Creation Stations provides the tools necessary for faculty, staff and students at the University of Texas at Houston to create first class courseware, web pages and multimedia presentations.

The Office of Academic Computing has brought together first class authoring software and solid multimedia hardware in order to provide the user with the latest and simplest tools necessary for creating electronic media. The following is a listing of the hardware and specifications as well as a list of capabilities provided by these tools. To view a demo page of functions that are available refer to the demo page.

Computers

• Sony Media Station (a Pentium 4 machine running MS Windows XP)
• Dell Dimension 8100 (a Pentium 4 machine running MS Windows XP)

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (Export your NFS Mount to oac33 for CD Rom creation)

Software / Hardware Peripherals

Sony Media Station
1. Hardware:
   1. CD/DVD Reader
   2. DVD Read/Writer
   3. Lexmark X-13 Scanner, photo printer, copier
   4. VHS / S-Video recorder / player
   5. Wacom Drawing Tablet and pen
   6. Internet connected
   7. Sound card
2. Software:
   1. Adobe Photoshop 6
   2. Premiere 5.1
   3. Premiere 6.0 LE
   4. Sorenson Squeeze
   5. DVDit by Vaio
   6. DV Gate
   7. Sound Forge
   8. Acid 2.0
   9. Quicktime
   10. Real Audio Player

Dell Station

1. Hardware:
   1. CD/DVD Reader
   2. HP Laserjet 6P black/white printer
   3. Bearpaw 1200 CS Scanner/Optical Character Reader (OCR)
   4. Internet connected
   5. Sound card
   6. unattached, but available at this desk - is a lightboard for tracing
2. Software:
   1. Corel
      1. Draw
      2. Photo-Paint
      3. Dream 3D
   2. Macromedia
      1. Dreamweaver 4
      2. Fireworks 4
      3. Flash 5
      4. Freehand 10
      5. Generator 2
      6. Homesite 5
   3. Microsoft
      1. Access
      2. Excel
      3. PowerPoint
      4. Word
   4. Netscape
      1. Composer
      2. Navigator
   5. ABBYY Fine Reader (OCR)
   6. Power Archiver 2002
   7. Quicktime
   8. Top Style Lite (browser checker for WWW creation)
   9. Ulead Photo Express
   10. Adobe Acrobat 5.0

Suggested uses
 

• Archive files (Accounting Data, Web pages, Large Data sets) from remote file systems to a CD ROM
• Create CD's for presentations with MS Presentation software including graphics
• Create MPEG CD's of existing video VHS / S-Video / Betamax tape
• Create MPEG movie clips from VHS / S-Video / Betamax tape
• Web Pages for Courseware, department pages for staff and faculty
• Create or convert Audio Stream Files for serving up on the University's Audio Stream Server
• Graphics and animation creation
• Scan Paper Documents and convert them to Word Processor Files with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Scan manuscripts up to 50 pages at a time unattended with the document feeder.
• Scan slides and transparencies with the transparency adapter
• Convert graphic images into alternate formats
• Available for use by anyone in the university at no charge. Assistance is available upon request.

How to Schedule the use of these machines

    Call OAC (713) 500-3501 and request time on one of the machines. You should state what features that you wish to use so that the correct machine can be reserved. Give the time and date you would like to reserve and specify if you will need any help creating your documents.

last edited January, 2003, Beth Ardoin