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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18-Aug-2009	CONTACT: Press Office 202-228-1122
Mikulski, Cardin Announce $50,000 to Improve and Expand Video Editing Training at Frostburg State University WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Frostburg State University for the Non-Linear Video Editing Lab Upgrade Project. The upgrade means that over the next three years, an additional 200 students will be trained to operate non-linear video editing systems and another 45 students will graduate with these sought-after job skills. Click here to read entire press release

 

Video editing equipment will bring university up to speed

Kristin Harty
Cumberland Times-News

August 19, 2009 11:49 pm

— FROSTBURG — Frostburg State University’s department of mass communications is coming more fully into the 21st century, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
The funds — to be matched by $50,000 from FSU — will help purchase the type of non-linear video editing equipment being used by professionals in the field, said John Lombardi, department chair.
Non-linear video editing equipment is to linear video editing equipment what the word processor is to the typewriter.
“A non-linear system allows you to do so much more than just take one shot and put it next to another shot and another shot,” said Lombardi, adding that in the video production field, linear editing is becoming obsolete.

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WFWM presenting ‘Live at the Depot’

For the Cumberland Times-News
Cumberland Times-News

August 20, 2009 08:18 pm

— FROSTBURG — WFWM 91.9 FM, National Public Radio from Frostburg State University, in cooperation with the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, will present “Live at the Depot,” a series of live old-time radio shows at the historic Old Depot in Frostburg.
The shows will feature 15-minute performances by local roots music bands and musicians. Chuck Dicken, WFWM station director, will serve as emcee. The performances will be recorded by WFWM for broadcast on the station at a later date. The Frostburg State University mass communications department will also be videotaping each show for use on the WFWM Web site and for possible television play.

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SGA Grant Purchases Cameras

aaaaaaThrough a generous grant from the SGA, the Department of Mass Communication and the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) have purchased two new Canon HF100 High-Definition camera kits.  Previously, only students in the Mass Communication department were able to check out audio and video equipment.
            Professor Micheal McAlexander wrote a grant proposal to the SGA asking for money, citing the lack of equipment available for students outside of the Mass Communication department as the reason for his request. “Every semester, 4 – 5 students would ask to borrow equipment, but we only have enough equipment for Mass Communication students,” said McAlexander.  “I saw there was a need so I found a way through the SGA grant to serve all Frostburg students.”
aaaaaaMcAlexander sees this new addition to the equipment room as a good opportunity for students in all departments and disciplines to gain a valuable skill.  “I believe that media technologies, both audio and video, touch all disciplines. All students should be somewhat proficient with video and audio editing basics,” said McAlexander.  “I’m not saying you’re going to make the next Iron Man movie, but you might want to make a YouTube video to show your professors or classmates the results of a scientific experiment or create a video resume for when you’re looking for a job or just make a crazy movie of your fraternity or sorority event.  Now you have some tools to make it happen.”
            In addition to the camera kits, the Mass Communication department also donated updated iMovie software for use in the Pullen Hall computer lab.  The iMacs in the Pullen lab now have the user-friendly iMovie software that students can use to edit their own videos or they can use the editing software that may have come with their own computers.
aaaaaa The Canon HF100 kits will be available on April 10th for 2-day check-out from the Mass Communication Equipment Room in Guild Center 150.  McAlexander stressed that, “the equipment room is not open 24/7 so students will have to check the posted hours before they can check out equipment.
         Also, all students that check out equipment will have to sign an agreement stating that they understand they are liable for any damage to or loss of the equipment.”   Students who wish to check out equipment must first see the Mass Communication administrative assistant, Connie Capacchione, to show their student ID and sign the liability contract.  Mrs. Capacchione is located in Guild Center 119.

            For more information please contact:

aaaaaaCONNIE CAPACCHIONE
aaaaaa 301-687-3049

 

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"[J]ournalism school and other mass communication curricula are not best used when they train students for the first six months of their employment; they should rather prepare their graduates for the years that follow the first six months: not in the skills which enable the young employee to do well at first, but rather in the understandings which enable him to do well throughout his career. There is no reason why he should not learn some skill, too; but, whenever there has to be a choice of time between learning the vocational skills and gaining the broad understanding of society and mass communication's place in it, the time should always be used for the broader and less immediately useful studies. The schools should aim for the long, not the short term; for on his job the new man can much more easily learn the skills of his job than he can learn to understand human beings, social organization, government, economics and science."

--Wilbur Schramm, Early Mass Communication Scholar

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