Best Practices and Workflows for Producing Video-Based Classroom Content; Case Study: Producing X3D for Web Authors

3. ABSTRACT Introduction to Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics (MV3204) and Advanced X3D Graphics (MV4205) are a pair of well-established courses with a custom textbook, an X3D example archive, annotated slide-sets, and the X3D-Edit authoring tool. This case study reports on lessons learned from producing 62 sessions totaling over 37 hours of video instruction. Topics include how to prepare and present video sessions for each lesson, recording and production techniques, building a video website, and teaching to remote students while recording. Most importantly we show the feasibility and repeatability of recording classroom video sessions with minimal post-production requirements, thus reducing video-production labor costs significantly. We also demonstrate the ability to use open-standard and open-source NPS-produced software to create a satisfactory course website. This report summarizes the entire production software to create a satisfactory course website. This report summarizes the entire production process ranging from proper preparation of course materials to pre-production, classroom presentation, speaker recording, screen capture, digital production, and post-production of video sessions. Detailed workflow diagrams, production checklists, conclusions and recommendations for future work are also included

Jeff Weekley Knox Talks, 7/06/2012 [audio]

Jeff Weekley, MOVES Institute Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School speaks with a group at the Dudley Knox Library, July 6, 2012

The effects of objective workload variations on behavioral, physiological, and psychological indices of strain

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A Rising Sun at NPS: Visualization with RenderMan on the Hamming Supercomputer [video]

In early 2009, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) brought the 1152 core "hamming" Sun Microsystems blade system online. Concurrently, NPS procured RenderMan™ software from Pixar Animation Studios. In this presentation, Dr. Heferman and Mr. Weekley describe the hamming supercomputer, the Maya 3D modeling package with Pixar's RenderMan software - used by film studios to develop popular animated feature films such as "Ratatouille" and "Up" and in visual effects for movies like "Where the Wild Things Are" - and how NPS used them together to create realistic visualizations in a format suitable for projection on the NPS Sony 4K display and for ultra-high resolution streaming media over CENIC networks. Dr. Heferman and Mr. Weekley demonstrate how advances in Hollywood-style animation and post-production tools have benefited researchers at NPS who are working on scientific visualization and streaming media in support of the School's academic and research missions

On Designing Construct Driven Situational Judgment Tests: Some Preliminary Recommendations

Abstract Situational judgment tests are widely agreed to be a measurement technique. It is also widely agreed that SJTs are a questionable methodological choice for measurement of psychological constructs, such as behavioral competencies, due to a lack of evidence supporting appropriate factor structures and high internal consistencies. Nevertheless, both the peer review literature and applied instances of SJTs reveal no shortage of attempts to measure psychological constructs with SJTs. While acknowledging the lack of evidence supporting the ability of SJTs to assess psychological constructs, we see that a number of practical benefits would accrue to organizations if industrial psychologists were able to design SJTs that measure psychological constructs. Accordingly, this article presents a discussion of steps that psychologists can take to enhance the chances of observing validity evidence for construct based SJTs

SAGE OptIPortal for NUWC-NPS Collaboration Building the Virtual Studio

MOVES Research & Education Systems Seminar: Presentation; Session 4: Collaborative NWDC/NPS M&S Research; Moderator: Curtis Blais; SAGE OptiPortal for NPS – NUWC Collaboration; speakers: Jeff Weekley, Jeff Malnick & Don BrutzmanMotivations: Connect NPS MOVES M&S Expertise to NUWC-Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) Capabilities and Needs Provide a Vision for the broader DoD in Remote Collaboration, Visualization, Emerging Media, Data Preservation, Collaborative Research, and Scaleable HPC Architectures (Cloud Services