Digital Media
- Skoobit Launches Online College Textbook Rental Service
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8/13/2008
Skoobit has developed a textbook rental system to allow college students to rent text books for months, semesters, or the year. College students will be able to rent any textbook for as long as needed with the simple commitment of returning it once they're done using it.
- CourseCast 2.0 Adds Podcasting, Streaming Media Features to Free Lecture Capture System
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8/6/2008
Panopto has released CourseCast 2.0, an update to the company's classroom capture system that's available free to academic users. CourseCast 2.0 had previously been available as part of Panopto's beta program for educators since June.
- It IS about Technology: Integrating Higher Ed into Knowledge Culture
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8/6/2008
For more than twenty years, we educational technologists have talked about "integrating information technology into higher education." The implication was that education would stay the same and information technology would benignly slip in and cause no ruckus at all. This rhetoric no longer applies, if it ever did, and does a disservice to us as we work through the intricacies of this age.
- Katana Brings Education Content to Sakai Open Source LMS
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8/5/2008
Sakai, a popular open source learning management system, is adding content from McGraw-Hill Higher Education to its repertoire of educational tools. Through a technology called Katana, developed by McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions and The ETUDES Consortium, Sakai users will be able to tap directly into McGraw-Hill's electronic learning resources, including online courses, digital media, and curricula.
- StreamLine: Educate Integrates Learning Management
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7/31/2008
Digital media software developer Stream57 has released a new version of StreamLine, the company's Webcasting solution. The new 2.8 release adds a suite of e-learning features, including course management and assessment functionality.
- Texas State Tech To Deliver Digital Media Program via Second Life
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7/30/2008
This fall Texas State Technical College (TSTC) will be offering a Digital Media certificate focused on virtual world technology using Second Life as the primary delivery method. An associate degree Digital Media will be offered in spring 2009.
- New England School of Comm Takes TV Production on the Road
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7/25/2008
The 400-student New England School of Communications (NESCom), which shares a campus with Husson University in Bangor, ME, has added a mobile television production facility to its curriculum. The facility is housed in a 32-foot truck that's equipped with Compact Routers and Synapse modular terminal gear from Nvision.
- Cdigix Brings Digital Media Platform to Blackboard Courses
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7/23/2008
Digital media developer Cdigix has expanded its C-Labs digital media platform to provide support for Blackboard environments on the course level.
- Research in Motion Issues Fix for Blackberry PDF Bug
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7/21/2008
Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the popular BlackBerry handset, on Friday issued a patch to plug a vulnerability in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) solution. The vulnerability could allow hackers to enter into a network via a maliciously crafted PDF file.
- TokBox Offers Free Live Video Talk Functionality
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7/16/2008
A new plugin called TokBox, from a San Francisco company of the same name and funded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, allows users to talk with each other over live video. A component with a "Push to Talk" button can be added to a social network profile, blog, or personal Webpage. A visitor clicks the button to connect to the host in real time using live video and audio.
- Carnegie Mellon Partners with Lulu.com for New Publishing Imprint
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7/10/2008
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is partnering with self-publishing firm Lulu.com to launch a new academic publishing imprint called ETC Press. All publications will be released under a Creative Commons license and will also have associated Web sites for collaborative authorship and discussion.
- Preserving History in Multimedia: An Interview with Stanford's Michael Keller
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7/9/2008
Michael Keller is well known as the innovative university librarian and director of academic information resources at Stanford University, as well as publisher of the Stanford University Press and HighWire Press. In this interview, he discusses a worldwide effort to digitally preserve vast amounts of material from history, both aging paper documents and very recent digital content.
- Project Wonderland: Good Avatars Make Good Neighbors
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7/2/2008
Sun Microsystems's Project Darkstar and the Wonderland Toolkit for building 3D spaces show why virtual reality is better for education than video conferencing. And Project Wonderland has announced its first education space.
- Sun, Stanford Working To Archive History
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7/2/2008
In May in San Francisco, experts from leading universities, libraries, and research institutions around the world met as part of an ongoing effort to address a pressing issue: archiving the world's history, right up to today.
- Facebook and Collegiality: A Serendipitous Social Niche
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7/2/2008
Facebook is a way to greet a colleague as if she or he is on your own campus: a wave at a distance, a hello at the corner burrito place, a honk as you both leave the campus parking lot. Informal collegiality has been extended over the miles.
- Wake Forest U Aims To Reduce Note Taking with Classroom Capture
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6/30/2008
Students taking a course in venture capital at Wake Forest University have, over the last semester, benefited from the use of Recordant audio-capture technology that allows Web-based archiving, searching, and playback of course lectures. The university said one of the goals was to get students to close their notebooks and focus on comprehension, secure that they'd be able to access the captured lectures later on.
- Podcasting in Instruction: Moving Beyond the Obvious
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6/25/2008
The lightweight, mobile nature of podcasting has the potential of moving education beyond familiar constraints of coursework and promoting a level of networking and input never seen before. But challenges still exist. Can more be achieved with podcasting that would heighten student engagement and maximize knowledge building in instructional contexts? Can we move beyond the obvious in their use?
- Adobe Releases Acrobat 9, Creative Suite 3.3
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6/25/2008
Adobe has now released Acrobat 9, announced earlier this month, along with an updated Creative Suite (version 3.3), which incorporates Acrobat 9 Pro software. The new version expands functionality for students in the areas of collaboration and the creation of electronic portfolios.
- The Educational Software Paradox: Can We Learn To Unlearn?
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6/25/2008
New "educational" software and applications are usually not as educational as one might think. As a whole, applications developed in the name of learning have ended up favoring the institution and preserving the status quo. Given existing dynamics, it could not be otherwise.
- Mediasite 5.0 Debuts; New Classroom Recorders Coming in July
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6/20/2008
Sonic Foundry debuted a new version of its lecture capture platform Thursday at the InfoComm and EduComm conferences in Las Vegas. Mediasite 5.0 adds about 100 new or enhanced features for recording, playing back, and managing classroom recordings. The company also announced new hardware recorders for automated lecture capture, which are scheduled to ship next month.
- Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?
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6/18/2008
Academics have long talked of the "academic conversation." Now, Web 2.0 has called our bluff. We live in the midst of a non-stop world conversation. But, are conversational skills (in writing) important and, if so, how do we teach them?
- Elicitus E-learning Authoring Tool Adds Embedded Sound Recorder
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6/17/2008
Harbinger Knowledge Products has released version 7.0 of Elicitus, its e-learning authoring tool. The new release provides usability enhancements, including an embedded sound recorder.
- Emantras Partners With Odyssey Press, Brings On-Demand Printing To REED Platform
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6/16/2008
Digital education and learning-enhancement company Emantras announced its partnership with digital printer Odyssey Press. The partnership with Odyssey will add on-demand printing for end users of Emantras' REED (Rapid e-Book and e-Journal) platform.
- Cisco Purchases DiviTech, Enhances Video-Delivery Offerings
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6/16/2008
Networking giant Cisco announced plans last week to purchase Denmark-based DiviTech A/S. The company, specializing in digital-service management (DSM) solutions, helps a variety of service providers create, modify, and manage video networks.
- Free Lecture Capture Platform Adds Blackboard integration, Podcasting Features
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6/11/2008
Panopto told us this week that it's releasing CourseCast v2, an update to the company's classroom capture system, and making it available to educators free through its Socrates Project beta program.
