Hi I'm Kerry Green, I'm the Head of the School of
Communication, International Studies and Languages.
The school has three new spaces.
The first is a brand new radio station and studio.
We have a refurbished television studio and
we have a multimedia languages facility.
The new spaces, the new studios, are part of a process
called Step 2010, and the idea with Step 2010
is to introduce a much greater proportion of experiential learning
into the kind of teaching that we do at this school.
My name's Andrei Gostin, I'm the new studio manager
in the studio spaces at Magill.
We have a number of functions that the studio can provide.
As well as being a TV studio
with your conventional three camera multi-cam
it is also one of the largest green-screen studios in Australia
which gives some really exciting capabilities for
compositing and for digital effects.
The studio is equipped with some of the most
cutting edge equipment that has been released
some of it only in the last twelve months
so for example, we're running a program called Virtual Sets
on the Tricaster, which pretty much enables you to
create a TV news bulletin
with only one operator and one presenter
and that's very exciting obviously for us embracing new technologies.
So, what we have here is a space that enables students from all disciplines
including Journalism, Film and Television
and also in Languages and even in Media and Culture and Communication
to create content that can be viewed on a number of platforms.
My name is Peter Nielsen
and this is the new UniCast radio studio.
So, it's a brand new studio, exactly the same
that you will find all over the world.
So, what we have here is a Klotz console.
This is exactly the same as we use in professional radio stations.
It's a digital desk. We train students up in their courses
we use it for exams, like spoken word exams
I teach students in here how to edit and use audio.
UniCast is the University of South Australia's
new online radio station.
It will be a twenty-four hour, seven day a week radio station
with our main focus on music, news and education.
Well, students will volunteer and staff the radio station
they will be doing a majority of the work
and we are opening up the radio station to everyone
from all over the different campuses of the University of South Australia.
Hi, I'm Giancarlo Chiro, I'm the Program Director
for Languages and Culture Studies
and I'm sitting in the very new
Languages multimedia facility
It looks like any other computer pool room of the university
but in actual fact this has been specifically designed
as a flexible teaching space for language learners.
It's the software in actual fact which distinguishes
the language laboratory from any other computer room.
I think the key function is the use of the Skype
because it allows the room
to be used as a base from which the
students can communicate with native speakers.
This is an important new feature and
students are able to both record their own voices
and interact with other students in the classroom
the difference with this is of course with the internet and the with the use of Skype
they are also able to get in touch with e-pals
if you like, or are able to speak with people
from around the world or other parts of Australia.
A feature we are looking forward to using also
is the video conferencing facilities.
That allows us to get in touch with other centres like
this one around Australia or indeed across the world
and set up conferences or actually
run classes at the same time across two campuses.
We had a great launch for the new facilities and we had people in
from all over Adelaide and South Australia.
It was great to be able to show off the new facilities to people like
state government ministers, the Lieutenant Governer was here as well
and we had a whole range of industry people around
and I think they got a really good idea of what it is that
our students are capable of doing and how our students
will be able to build great portfolios for them.