Presentation/Display
- 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.
- GT Prof: Students Learn Better Via iPod Versus Lecture
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3/13/2007
A Georgia Tech professor has been running an informal experiment to test whether students who listen before class to lectures via their laptops or personal digital assistants perform better on tests.
- Stanford Student Develops Eyeball-Controlled Mouse
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3/13/2007
A Stanford doctoral student is testing a system that enables computer users control a mouse pointer via eye-movement, MIT’s Technology Review reported. Although the capability has been available for people with disabilities for several years, the inventor, Manu Kumar, wants to make the eyeball mouse as simple as possible for everyday use.
- 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.
- Toshiba Ships Combo Projector/Document Camera
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1/17/2007
Toshiba this week announced its new TDP-SC35U, a single-chip DLP projector that also includes a detachable document camera. The new model, designed for education and conference room applications, is available now for $899.
- At U Richmond, Remote Support Cuts Costs
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1/8/2007
One of the challenges of multimedia classrooms can be supporting them in an efficient, cost-effective manner. After all, each element you add to a classroom means another piece of equipment that can fail.
- Aux Out
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1/3/2007
Fear, uncertainty, doubt, and hope are reflected in typical teacher stations, podiums, and classroom equipment racks in the form of auxiliary input/output connector panels. Checking the auxiliary connector panel in a college or university classroom will give you some insights about the room’s system designer.
- Interactive Podiums Display Multimedia Content
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1/3/2007
Interactive whiteboards, which allow instructors to use an electronic board in class to display and edit information, have proved popular over time. One issue: the boards sometimes aren’t big enough to have all of the content seen and read from the back of a large class.
- Advanced Teaching Technologies: Brave New World
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12/28/2006
MOST EDUCATORS WORK in brick buildings and the physical world, but Ed Dieterle prefers a virtual alternative. Dieterle is an advanced doctoral candidate and researcher at Harvard University (MA). His current focus is the River City Project, a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) that’s similar in look and feel to The Sims, a popular online simulation game from Electronic Arts.
- CT Solutions
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12/27/2006
- Response Devices Keep FSU Students Focused
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11/27/2006
Attendance is up and the number of students dozing off in class is down in Joe Calhoun’s economics classes at Florida State University (FSU). And that’s despite an increase in class size recently, with new lecture halls that seat up to 500 students at a time.
- CT Solutions
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11/25/2006
- 101 BEST PRACTICES >> Smart Classroom
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11/21/2006
Planning, building, funding, retrofitting, or just dreaming about 'smart' classrooms? Thirty-two best practices in tactics, strategies, and technology implementations will inspire your next project.
- The Birth of Your Next Initiative
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11/20/2006
- 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.
- Napping to Learn
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11/14/2006
You might think the idea of taking time to nap with so much to do is crazy. However, after living with this program for an extended period, I am going to argue that taking a nap is a great way to get more done. I even believe it is a great way to learn.
- Presentation & Display: The Challenge of Next-Generation
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10/9/2006
Let’s look at the trends and how they will impact (and be affected by) current technologies, then let’s look ahead to the next generation of presentation and display, and what you will need to know to get there.
- 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.
- Gone in 60 Seconds
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9/25/2006
Projector theft from classrooms is a sensitive subject with campus instructional technology professionals. Everybody knows it’s a problem, but nobody wants to talk much about it.
- Liberating the Learning Environment – Automating Multimodal Content
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9/5/2006
Like it or not, lecturing is still an integral part of the university learning experience. Even pure eLearning offerings contain elements of lecture.
- CT Solutions
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8/31/2006
- University of Texas Saves Big by Standardizing its Classroom Systems
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8/21/2006
Would you install a different phone system in every room of your house? At the University of Texas at Austin, Kurt Bartelmehs, program manager for instructional technology, uses that analogy to explain why he’s worked so hard to standardize technology in classrooms across campus.
- Video Delivery Products Enhance Distance Learning Quality
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8/7/2006
Colleges and universities delivering distance learning via the Internet face challenges in maintaining high-speed, high-quality voice, video, and data. Delivering video and voice courses using Internet protocols (IP) has been growing over the past five or six years, and technology companies are racing to keep up.
- Summer Punch List Mania
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7/31/2006
It’s that time of the year again – everybody else is out enjoying the weather but we’re struggling to complete classroom upgrade, renovation, and construction projects that need to be open this fall. In the rush to find, hire, and oversee the work of contractors who are themselves overworked, a lot of things can get overlooked. Here are issues we found on a recent college classroom project inspection (all in one room) and what they may portend for the room’s future use if not corrected.
- CT Solutions
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2/28/2006
