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The Next Teaching Technology: Digital Content Servers
3/1/2005
By Gary Kayye
That’s where Digital Content Servers come in. Imagine having every lesson, every video clip, every PowerPoint presentation, every TV show scene you needed, every audio file and every educational presentation available on-the-fly, whenever or wherever you are. That’s what a Digital Content Server will do. It’s like a giant hard drive capable of storing multiple formats of data, video and audio and playing them back in any room projector or TV or even via any PC or MAC via an Internet browser. This will eliminate the equipment or cable clutter as everything will be stored on this server and accessible from anything connected to the Internet or our network. And, since the new generation of TVs, projectors and every computer on campus is, of course, connected, it’s accessible from any display.
OK, we know this is still a few years away for most educational applications, but we’re doing it in the home already. Like I said earlier, take a look at TiVo, your new cable DVR or iTunes from Apple. What we’re talking about here is not much different from those Digital Content Servers. Right?
Gary Kayye, Chief Visionary of Kayye Consulting, has been involved in the audiovisual industry for more than 20 years.
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