The Educational Technologies Team
- Educational Technologies Administration
- Gary Van Sise, Director
- Audio Visual Services
- Jarrod McFarlane, Manager
- The Javits Center Office – John Connolly, Rich Fantasia, Pan Yamniyom
- The Health Science Center Office – Phyllis Bianchet, Eugene Hellin, Adam Schwartz, Kyle Schweitzer
- The Frey Hall Office – Rich Stein
- Media Systems Engineering
- Richard Holiday, Manager
- Media Systems Engineering – Mike Hicks, Richard Tulipan,
- Digital Media and Collaboration Systems – Anthony Bozzanca
- Video Engineering – Joe Reina
- The Video Production Group
- Producer/ Directors – Bill Cusick, Dini Diskin-Zimmerman
- Videographer/ Editors – 20 hourly employees scheduled as needed
- Academic Facilities Management
- Jack Franqui
Educational Technologies Mission:
To design, build and maintain physical and virtual learning environments that include the technology and facilities that promote education, interaction, collaboration and exploration.
To provide presentation support, equipment and facilities to the University community
To make the most of our talents and resources by providing services to the education and administration communities such as video production, streaming services, shared meeting spaces, design consultation and support for special events
Major Accomplishments First Quarter, 2015
Media Systems Engineering
- Installed data projectors and media control systems in two lecture halls that didn’t have any previous system
- Installed lecture capture in four large classrooms
- Replacing the data projector and adding HDMI support in 8 classrooms
- Installed Smart Boards to support secondary teacher education in three classrooms
- Specified and supervised the installation of two new video conferencing facilities at SBSh
Worked with Hospital Networking to design and implement a new classroom and AV network infrastructure- Completed the installation of the campus’s first One Button Studio to encourage faculty recording of instructional material
- Replaced the computers in nine classrooms
- The use of SBCapture continues to grow. The Statics for the fiscal year ending July 1.
- 820,619 lecture videos were viewed
- 5,145 new lectures were uploaded
Academic Facilities
- Specified and supervised the installation of new LED lighting system and dimmers in two HSC classrooms (Funded by HSC Facilities)
- Replaced outdated tablet arm chairs in three rooms with new, flexible furniture that promotes group interaction (Shared funding with Center for Science and Math Education)
- Began placing mobile digital device charging stations in areas outside classrooms. This will ensure that students tablets are charged and ready for class
- Replaced the instructors lectern and table in 10 HSC classrooms
Video Production Group
- Logged 1,037 hours of videography and editing
- Completed 38 projects
- For Education: Computational Science with R. Harrison, English Lessons – Interviewing Skills, Lab Safety, Meet the Tallocks, Provost Lecture Series, Science on Tap, Science Unplugged, Computer Science – Predicting Future Outcomes, Fall Symphony, Vacancy Chains
- For the Hospital/ HSC: 1000k Birth Announcement, Dr. Profiles Summer 2015
- For Student Affairs: Business Fair Employer Videos, New Student Convocation, Family Orientation Video
- For Research: CEWIT Overview
- For DoIT: DoIT Presentation Video – Who Are You?, Online Education Symposium
- For the President/ Communications: 5 Questions with Campaign, Computer Science Ribbon Cutting, He for She Campaign, Pres Stanley New Student Welcome Video, President Stanley’s in Game Messages for Score Boards, State on the University Address, Staller Center Commercial, Stony Brook Council Meetings, Stony Brook Moments Campaign, Wolfstock Commercial
