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Presentation, Display, CMS, and eLearning
8/12/2009

Spotlight

  • Engaging Students with Giant Visualization

    In order to provide an immersive setting for his modeling and simulation students, Jody Strausser put together a massive visualization environment that included a 27-foot screen and three projectors. Expensive? Actually, the cost wasn't as prohibitive as it might have been. Rather than using expensive, high-resolution projectors for the system, Strausser turned to a technology that allowed him to "stitch" together three relatively inexpensive off-the-shelf projectors to create a single, seamless, 27-foot image.More

News & Product Updates

  • CourseCast Lecture Capture System Integrates with Moodle

    Panopto this week announced that it has developed a module to integrate CourseCast with the open source learning management system Moodle. Moodle. CourseCast is a lecture capture platform that is available free for academic institutions.More
  • Desire2Learn Gets IMS Common Cartridge 1.0 Certified

    Desire2Learn this week announced that its Desire2Learn Learning Environment has been certified by the IMS Global Learning Consortium to comply with the IMS Common Cartridge Standard 1.0.More
  • U North Carolina Law Students Get Echo360-Captured Podcasts

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is creating podcasts from its School of Law with the use of lecture capture application Echo360. The software has been deployed in 10 classrooms so far.More
  • Cambridge Business School Moves to Topyx for Learning Platform

    Executive MBA students at the University of Cambridge will be using an application from Interactyx that combines elements of a course management system with social networking. Over the next two years students in Cambridge's Judge Business School will be working with Topyx eLearning.More
  • 2010 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards Open

    The 2010 Vernier/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Technology Award program is now open. Each year, the program awards cash, technology, and travel funds for science teachers who demonstrate innovation in inquiry-based learning activities involving data collection.More
  • Lumens Ships Cross Platform Visual Presenter

    Lumens Integration has begun shipping a new model in its Ladybug line of classroom visual presenters/document cameras, one with a 14" x 11" capture area and 6x optical zoom.More