Studio Spaces & Capabilities

The Studio provides cutting-edge spaces for UIC instructors to bring a creative and digital mindset to innovate in their teaching and find opportunities to grow their course development skills.

Studio Space 1.0 (current) Heading link

Instructors can create video resources with Studio colleagues to enhance their work.

The studio is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment that can enhance faculty explanations and demonstrations. Helpful staff can guide faculty as they work in the space to simplify the creative process.

Lightboard Demonstrations

Instructor Ozgur Arslan Ayaydin helps students by annotating a Lightboard to reinforce her explanation.

Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin, Clinical Professor and Assistant Department Head in the Department of Finance, helps students by annotating a Lightboard to reinforce her explanation.

Video Lessons

Instructor Alan Malter helps students make connections between concept and place by recording in front of a green screen, with imagery added in post-production.

Alan Malter, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Marketing helps students make  connections between concept and place by recording in front of a green screen, with imagery added in post-production.

Faculty may identify a problem such as these:

  • Students lack interest or motivation
  • Students don’t engage with the class or course materials
  • Students can’t apply what they have learned
  • Students performed poorly on an exam
  • Increase awareness of a research publication

 

Contact us for a free in-person consultation about studio solutions for teaching challenges!

The studio can help you create the following to contribute to solutions:

  • Faculty introduction video
  • Welcome to the course video
  • Course tour
  • An active learning explanation of a process, concept, or topic
  • An active learning demonstration of a process, concept, or topic
  • Illustrate a concept
  • Tutorial video
  • Record audio for a podcast
  • Video abstract of a research proposal or publication

The cutting-edge resources in the space include:

  • Lightboard
  • Professional Lighting
  • Professional Microphones
  • Teleprompter
  • Various screen backgrounds, including green screen
  • Confidence Monitor
  • 4K Professional Grade Cameras (2)

The faculty studio space is located at the:

Richard J. Daley Library, 2nd Floor
MC 234
801 S. Morgan

Note the following when preparing for and teaching with the Lightboard:

  • Similar to using a whiteboard while teaching, an instructor writes on a Lightboard (a transparent glass board) with bright colors while facing the camera. The student will see content appearing in front of or to the side of the instructor.
  • Prepare beforehand by outlining lecture content and rehearsing.
  • Consider visual hierarchies; use different colors, underlining, circling, or annotating to emphasize important points.
  • Practice drawing with different colors on a Lightboard. Contact the studio to book a practice session.
  • Wear appropriate clothing such as solid colors or tops with simple patterns. Wear darker colors to help the bright fluorescent ink to stand out.
  • Anticipate a boundary of video frame edges, and avoid writing beyond this perimeter.
  • Stand to the side: While explaining, stand to the side of the content to maintain readability.
  • Encourage active learning: Break your content into sections and encourage students to engage in a brief activity (e.g., answer a question, practice, or solve a partial worked example) between sections.

Studio Space 2.0 (coming soon!) Heading link

We are prioritizing the flexible infrastructure of two world-class recording spaces so we can evolve the space to match instructor and student needs.

Flexible Space

plans of the new Flexible space from the architects.

This early mockup of our flexible space enables the recording of various lecture and demonstration setups, as well as sit-down podcast interviews.

Self-Serve Space

plans of the new self-serve space from the architects.

This early mockup of a self-serve space allows instructors to use simplified controls for focused, private, professional-quality recording sessions. Studio colleagues will be available for guidance!

We will retain the technologies and resources presently available at The Studio and expand upon them in our new space. A few of the additions include:

  • Larger flexible studio space to accommodate 3-4 set-ups, including lectures, demonstrations, and podcast discussions. This space will be fitted with a cyclorama (curved wall-backdrop), teleprompters, Lightboard, and multi-camera setups.
  • A self-serve studio space that allows faculty to record their presentations or demonstrations with user-friendly presets of professional backdrops, lighting, and microphone setups. Studio staff will be available to train and support.
  • A “green room” to provide a private, comfortable space for faculty to prepare for their recording session. Faculty can practice, change clothing, and apply makeup in this space.
  • Two conference rooms will accommodate collaborative meetings. Faculty and studio staff can brainstorm, design, and develop project possibilities through these rooms, both in person and remotely.

The IDMPS 2.0 Studio Space will be located at:

The Student Services Building
Building 665 (SSB)
1200 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-4243

HOW CAN WE HELP? Send us a message and share your project details. We will be in touch to schedule a free consultation or a quote!