{"id":1180,"date":"2024-06-06T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/?page_id=1180"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:04:53","slug":"watkins-jamie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/about-staff-educators\/watkins-jamie\/","title":{"rendered":"Watkins, Jamie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-garnet-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\">Jamie Watkins (he\/him\/his)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/files\/2024\/06\/Jamie-Watkins-150x150.webp\" alt=\"Jamie Watkins\" class=\"wp-image-1205\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Senior Academic Technology Consultant \u2013 Digital &amp; Immersive Media Technologies<\/strong><br><br><strong>Associations:<\/strong> <br>Digital Media Studios (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-media\/\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-media\/<\/a>)<br>Immersive Media Studios (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/impact21st\/\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/impact21st\/<\/a>)<br>Curricular &amp; Research Computing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/curricular-research-computing\/\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/curricular-research-computing\/<\/a>)<br>Information &amp; Library Services (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/ils\/\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/ils\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Digital Media Studios, Pettigrew Hall 120<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-garnet-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:jwatkin2@bates.edu\">jwatkin2@bates.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamie Watkins (he\/him) is an artist and media educator. He works at Bates College, where he serves as a Senior Academic Technology Consultant &#8211; Digital &amp; Immersive Media Technologies, providing training and support for students, faculty, and staff working on multimedia projects and assignments. Jamie holds a BA from Vassar College, as well as certificates from the London Academy of Dramatic Art and Maine Media Workshops + College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Bates, Jamie provides in-class workshops, offers one-on-one student mentorship, and maintains a large library of production resources and tutorials. He manages the Digital Media Studios (bates.edu\/digital-media), a cross-curricular facility equipped with professional-grade Editing Suites, a Photo\/Video Production Studio, an Animation Studio, an iMac Teaching Lab, and a Loaner Pool of multimedia production equipment. He also co-manages the Immersive Media Studio (bates.edu\/impact21st), a flexible, immersive media gallery and performance space that hosts classes, workshops, and visiting artists focused on multi-channel and interdisciplinary media arts and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether it&#8217;s working with a first-year seminar as they record and edit a podcast for a community-engaged final project; working closely with Faculty member on devising a new multi-channel exhibition inspired by on their NSF research; or supporting an Arts and Visual Culture thesis student as they put the final touches on their narrative short film &#8211; Jamie&#8217;s goal as an educator and artist is to help members of the Bates community discover, refine, and deepen their storytelling abilities through media production and creative technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relevant Work<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Workshop Developed and Facilitated:<\/strong> Watkins, Jamie; Magner, Cian &#8220;DMS Workshop Recording and Editing Audio&#8221; 2024. Bates College. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1J3DNW37zx83jD7TktTovL6zVI7sCWKdUe05qjCcMwE8\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1J3DNW37zx83jD7TktTovL6zVI7sCWKdUe05qjCcMwE8\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a>. This workshop, offered in different iterations to a wide array of classes working on multimedia assignments, provides students with an introduction to recording, mixing, and editing audio projects and podcasts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Workshop Developed and Facilitated:<\/strong> Watkins, Jamie; Magner, Cian &#8220;Video Essay Workshop: Screen Recording &amp; Video Editing&#8221; 2024. Bates College. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1q8J_nyI9V3w3ll2MIbmPUeDffV8P62-0IGd8ENnpWNE\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1q8J_nyI9V3w3ll2MIbmPUeDffV8P62-0IGd8ENnpWNE\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a> This workshop, offered to several Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies courses, provides students with an introduction to the tools and resources necessary for creating Video Essays, including an introduction to video editing and post-production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resource Developed: <\/strong>Watkins, Jamie; Magner, Cian &#8220;Production Equipment and Tutorials&#8221; 2024. Bates College. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-media\/production-equipment-tutorials\/\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-media\/production-equipment-tutorials\/<\/a> This series of asynchronous resources and tutorials were developed to support students working on multimedia projects and assignments, and to introduce new users to best practices for video and audio production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Watkins (he\/him\/his) Senior Academic Technology Consultant \u2013 Digital &amp; Immersive Media&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":921,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":true,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180\/revisions\/2403"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/center-inclusive-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}