Digital Media
- NAB: Adobe Begins Shipping Creative Suite 3
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4/16/2007
Adobe today began shipping its all-new Creative Suite 3. Most of new versions of the individual apps are shipping now. Out at the NAB convention in Las Vegas, Adobe is also previewing new versions of its video and motion graphics tools.
- Carol Bartz Receives Exploratorium Director's Award
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4/11/2007
Autodesk Inc.'s Chairman of the Board Carol Bartz was honored last week at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco with the Exploratorium's prestigious Director's Award recognizing leadership in technology, science, and education.
- Avid Kicks Off Academic Partner Program
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4/10/2007
Avid Technology, the developer of video and audio editing systems, has launched a new program for colleges and universities: the Avid Academic Partner program.
- Teach Your Children Well: RPI Offers Games Degree
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4/10/2007
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute launched an undergraduate degree program in Games and Simulation Arts & Sciences (GSAS), which it said would play on the success of an existing games studies minor offered in the university's School of Humanities an Social Sciences.
- Classroom Recordings Augment Lectures at U of Alabama
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4/4/2007
Products that can record a classroom lecture and make it available after the fact sometimes raise concerns that class attendance will drop off as a result.
- USC Innovation Institute To Incubate Arts ... and Sciences Too
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4/3/2007
University of Southern California president Steven Sample outlined a strategic plan for USC's new Stevens Institute for Innovation designed to consolidate all is innovation transfer and development operations under a single hub, as well as to extend those operations across as many disciplines as possible--arts as well as sciences.
- Online Tutorials Grab the Attention of Philadelphia U
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3/28/2007
"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
- Adobe Debuts Creative Suite 3
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3/27/2007
Adobe today took the wraps off its all-new lineup of creative apps with the formal debut of Adobe Creative Suite 3. Most of new versions will launch in April, with some stragglers holding out until the third quarter. What does it all mean for Campus IT folk?
- Hands On with Photoshop CS3 Extended
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3/27/2007
As a campus IT person, you might want to consider hiring a bouncer and putting up a velvet rope in front of your office. In a few hours, every department head and faculty member....
- Collegians Reach 'Extreme' CAD Makeover Finals
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3/20/2007
Three college and three high school teams remain as finalists in a national contest to pick the best three-dimensional printing design. The competition, sponsored by computer-aided design firm Dimension 3D Printing Group, required the contestants to identify an existing product or piece of art or architecture and redesign it, while improving the original with new functionality or qualities.
- U Mary Washington Partners with KZO Networks for E-Learning
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3/15/2007
The University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Virginia has launched into an e-learning partnership with KZO Networks, a developer of interactive learning tools. UMW will deploy KZO's tools to enhance its e-learning capabilities with Flash-based presentations, both live and archived.
- Mediasite 4.1 Offers Podcasting Option
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3/14/2007
Announced today, Sonic Foundry's Mediasite 4.1 release will give institutions the option to podcast their Mediasite presentation content.
- Profile: Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
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3/12/2007
Transitoning the digital animation program from high-end workstations to desktop systems
- Events: FCPUG at NAB
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3/12/2007
The Los Angeles Final Cut pro User Group (FCPUG) will host the sixth-annual FCPUG Network SuperMeet at this year's convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas.
- U Virginia Business School Deploys Ektron CMS400.NET
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3/8/2007
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business has adopted Ektron CMS400.NET for Web content management.
- Photoshop CS3: Extended Version Revealed
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3/7/2007
Adobe today is releasing a few further details about the forthcoming release of Creative Suite 3, a collection of graphic design and other tools.
- University Presses Offer Soft Focus on Open Access Issue
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3/6/2007
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) released a statement last week outlining its perspective on the controversial issue of free or "open" access to scholarly literature, including scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal articles.
- UPMC Center for Biosecurity Adopts SiteExecutive
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3/5/2007
The Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched two websites using SystemExecutive from Systems Alliance, an IT and business consulting firm.
- Wilkes U. Goes All Mac
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3/2/2007
Wilkes University in Pennsylvania said it will be switching over to the Mac OS X platform across the campus.
- Autodesk Releases Maya 8.5
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1/17/2007
Autodesk is released Maya 8.5 Monday, an update to the company's high-end 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering suite. The new version is a Universal Binary with native support for Intel-based Macs, as well as Windows and Linux. A Personal Learning Edition is slated for release this spring.
- Is Your Campus Color Smart?
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1/17/2007
We've all in our lives made the mistake of thinking of color as this fixed quantity--some sort of absolute that can be communicated, interpreted, and reproduced losslessly. The sky is blue. The tree is green. The car is red. I can write those words, and the colors materialize in your mind. But are the colors you "see" in your mind the same as the ones I intended to communicate to you? In other words, do they match? Surely not.
- Kansas State University Podcasting Initiative
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11/14/2006
For the past several years, K-State has used technology from Tegrity to record class sessions with video, audio, and multimedia. Presently, close to 200 classes across the university are captured using this technology.
- 'Ole Miss' Turns to New Document Management Solution
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10/23/2006
Even with its many sophisticated computer systems, the University of Mississippi, like most campuses, still deals with lots of paper.
- Podcasting at the University of Connecticut: Enhancing the Educational Experience
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10/16/2006
In September 2005, I purchased my first iPod (a first generation Nano) and realized that an opportunity existed to come full-circle. Combining what had become my career in psychology with my original passion for broadcasting, I discovered podcasting.
- Arizona College Serves Remote Students with Rich Multimedia
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9/25/2006
Serving quality educational experiences to remote students is a challenge for many colleges in the U.S. Advances in multimedia equipment, video conferencing solutions, and high-speed delivery are making that task easier, but still not without challenges.
