Our new name reflects our goal to provide the maximum digital media support to UC Davis faculty for their instruction and research. Ask any of our clients and they will most likely tell you that media does work. For the standard support that many instructors have come to rely on (e.g., film processing, video production, slide creation, PowerPoint presentations), our new organization provides a single entry point to help make these services more accessible. In terms of the brand new, faculty and staff can expect us to use and support newer technologies and to offer innovative programs. We expect this expansion of our service offerings to meet a wider range of faculty instructional technology needs. Here's a brief preview of what's ahead:

• Through the Arbor (now located in 161 Everson), we continue to offer self-help for faculty, assisting with basic computer skills, putting course materials online, and creating Web pages. In addition, we will be broadening our services to include more intermediate and advanced training in software like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. We are also developing a new program to train a team of students in basic Web-related software. These students will assist individual faculty in their own offices.
   
  
• Our new Web site, in development, will have a list of services and provide online forms to request Mediaworks services. Meanwhile, be sure to peruse examples of our current work at http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu/projects/100days.html.
   
  
• Grants available through the Teaching Resources Center (TRC) will provide recipients with resources and assistance for instructional technology projects. The grants are intended to help instructors improve undergraduate instruction. Through this unique partnership with the TRC, we will be offering $100,000 of services twice a year.
   
  
• Online courses, CDs, and the Web are growing elements of our services. For example, we are helping put ten high-demand general education courses online. Through the UC Davis-Mellon Project, students will have the choice of taking these courses either via computer or within a classroom setting. The departments of Anthropology, Viticulture, Statistics, and Asian Art History are just a few of the UC Davis departments participating in this project. The multidisciplinary team, supported by University resources and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is working on implementing and evaluating the use of information technology in large undergraduate courses. This project is part of the Mellon Foundation's Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching Program to help inform the direction of future online course development across the country. For more information about this project, see http://cloudybay.ucdavis.edu/Mellon/. We also expect to develop additional courses beyond the Mellon Project in 2002 and move towards more Web-based materials.
   
  
• To turn these exciting plans into reality, our resident experts, as well as yet-to-be-hired new staff (an associate director, photographers, project managers, producers, programmers, and designers), will help expand our reach and keep the works going at Mediaworks.

We hope to see you in the coming year.