The Office of Distance Education and eLearning has been running a pilot around the Mediasite lecture capture system since the semester began in January. After a few firewall issues were resolved with a recorder located in the College of Medicine the server, hardware, and software components of this system have been working very well. Here …Read more at the full article: The Lecture Capture pilot: a status report
In late 2012, Prezi redesigned their user interface. I discovered this when I showed up to teach a workshop on Prezi and found that half the class were viewing the old ‘Zebra stripe’ Prezi interface where a three layer window controlled rotation, size, and location, and the other half had a more ‘Microsoft/Adobe-esque’ toolbar at …Read more at the full article: Prezi’s very simple animation tool
Lecture capture has been around for some time, and software like Camtasia, Snagit, iShowU, and ScreenFlow are all somewhat effective at capturing whatever is happening on screen. The problem with user created recordings is managing all that content. Basically the instructor ends up copying files somewhere or other where they get transcoded into a web …Read more at the full article: Lecture Capture Pilot for Spring semester
Prezi is an online cloud based presentation creator that lets users write, add images, and zoom from one part to another for a very different presentation experience. Users who took the time to learn the Prezi ‘Bubble Menu’ and ‘Zebra Wheel’ were rewarded with presentations that moved, images that could be zoomed into, and a …Read more at the full article: The new face of Prezi
As we approach the 9 month anniversary of Apple’s Course Manager tool, I want to highlight some features and improvements that are quite useful to faculty. Course Manager is an easy web based tool for instructors who want to offer video, audio, and digital content to their students. The web interface is easy to use, …Read more at the full article: iTunes U Course Manager
Last month I was privileged to attend the New Media Consortium conference hosted by MIT. If you’re familiar with NMC, you’ve no doubt seen The Horizon Report on emerging technology that will impact higher education in the near future. This year’s conference offered tours of MIT, Harvard, and Boston College education spaces, tech sessions on …Read more at the full article: New Media Consortium at MIT
Ohio State University faculty have a new tool for distributing digital content to students: iTunes U Course Manager. iTunes U Courses are an online collection of images, video, audio, links, and documents created and managed by faculty. Students can access collections through their computer with iTunes software, or with Apple mobile devices using the free …Read more at the full article: Using iTunes U and Course Manager at OSU
Four months ago I was asked to revamp the OSU iTunes U site which is accessible from Apple’s iTunes. iTunes is free software that connects a PC or Mac to an iOS device, and iTunes U is a collection of free education content, found on a little tab on the top right of the iTunes …Read more at the full article: Revamping iTunes U
In January, Apple announced two publishing tools designed to deliver content to IOS based iPads, iPods, and iPhones. Today we’ll look at one. Course Manager is a web based design tool to create educational content for these IOS devices. An author with connections to a school or university can create a package of materials for …Read more at the full article: Course Manager and the iTunes App at OSU
Easy audio has finally been added to Prezi
Prezi is an cloud and software based presentation tool that continues to add features and gain users at a rapid pace. A recent press release from Prezi announced the addition of two types of audio to the tool; this combo makes Prezi considerably more useful in the multimedia presentation sphere. The first option is a …Read more at the full article: Easy audio has finally been added to Prezi