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Throughout the year, we will "put the spotlight" on a member of the UT teaching community so you can share in the innovative uses of technology they bring to the teaching practice.

From Beef Cattle to B-roll:

Beef Cattle Producer Becomes
Media Producer

Dr. Clyde Lane

Professor
Animal Science

Clyde Lane saw the need to preserve content that was being presented to producers in the beef cattle industry by recording and producing short, informational segments on the many aspects of cattle production. Knowing that the scope of the project was far beyond the abilities of one person with little media experience, one of his Animal Science colleagues referred Dr. Lane to OIT's Instructional Development and Training group. The collaboration between Dr. Lane and IDT has allowed him to produce an ongoing series of media productions that is seeing widespread use in the beef cattle industry, not only within UT but across the state of Tennessee and the country.

Dr. Lane and IDT personnel have worked together to streamline the process of shooting footage in and around Jackson, TN and editing it in a studio in Knoxville to the point where the team can produce 15-20 segments in one 90 minutes setting, compared to more than an entire day when the project first started. Regarding the improvements in the workflow, and how it has made the process faster as well as allowed the team to produce even better quality content, Dr Lane says, "I challenge anybody to do much better than that."

View Dr. Lane’s video story

Transcript

Learn More About Dr. Lane's Project

UT's Department of Animal Science:
http://animalscience.ag.utk.edu

TN Cattle Lane:
http://www.tncattlelane.org

The Beef Blog:
http://www.thebeefblog.com

TN Cattle Lane's YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/UTAnimalScience

TN Cattle Lane on iTunes:
Type "TN Cattle Lane" in Search

Videography by Pat Watson of OIT's Instructional Development and Training Group