ITS-Instructional Services' Digital Media Solutions Event Page
NeXTT - Media In ICON Training
The Digital Media Solutions (DMS) staff assists with delivery the NeXTT workshopsThis past year DMS staff provided demonstrations and tutorials on how to place various types of lecture recordings, video and interactive media into ICON: Streaming vs Progressive vs Podcasting, Flash Video, Quicktime, Windows Media, Audio files, Captivate recordings, Articulate recording, and Camtasia recordings. Previous NeXTT workshops Digital Media Solution staff covered Power Point to the Web and Virtual Worlds.
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Internet2 Fall Member Meeting Highlights
The 2007 Internet2 Fall Member Meeting took place on October 8-11.
"The conference included a wide variety of sessions including presentations on the new high-performance nationwide Internet2 network, advances in middleware technology, new optical networking technologies, network research, grid computing, as well as advanced applications in telemedicine, arts and humanities, K-12 educational programs, distance-learning, among many others."
Highlights of the meeting are documented here.
CIC TechForum 2007
The following excerpt was taken from the October 2007 ITS News...
Thirteen Information Technology Services staff members attended the CIC TechForum in Indianapolis Oct. 2-4. CIC – the Committee for Institutional Cooperation – is comprised of all 11 Big Ten schools, plus the University of Chicago.
Many ITS staff members made presentations or participated in panel discussions at the event. A complete program with slides for the presentations and podcasts is available at the event website.
Iowa presentations:
* “Discussion on the Exploration of a Web-Based Video Sharing Tool” – Greyson Purcell and Steve Tomblin
* “Multiple Channels: Building an IT Community Across Campus” – Scott Leeman
* “The Ambassador Model: Cultivating Local Experts at Iowa” – Aprille Clarke and Kyle Gassiott
* “Managing Visitor and Community Access at University of Iowa” – Chris Clark
* “Wikis and Workflows” – Jack Pinette
Panel discussions:
* Podcasting and Streaming Media Panel – Les Finken
* Mentoring Panel – Ben Arnold
* Outsource E-mail Panel – Romy Bolton
Planning team:
* Scott Leeman
Elluminate Live! Update
Zemina Hasham, Senior Director, Client Services, Elluminate Inc. will be on campus May 10, 2007 to provide information on the key applications of Elluminate Live! as used by other organizations. She will provide training with emphasis on the advanced features of Elluminate Live. Also, she will show a preview of the next version of Elluminate Live, the Elluminate Live integration with ICON and a general product roadmap. Throughout the event she will be looking for feedback on existing features and on enhancements to consider for the future. Detailed agenda...
Ed Media Conference 2007
Recenty we presented a poster at the Ed Media Conference. Read about the conference Poster Presentation and the award winning poster here.
IT Tech Forum 2007
At the Campus IT Tech Forum 2007, ITS-Instructional Services' Greyson Purcell and Steve Tomblin discussed emerging trends in web media, i.e., podcasting and Flash audio/video, and showcased examples from around the University and other academic institutions. Demonstrations included locally developed internet applications that leverage these technologies in instructional settings:
- Dr. Hans House, Associate Professor and Residency Program Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa, discussed how he uses podcasting as an aid in teaching emergency medicine to residents, medical students, and paramedics.
- Dr. Fakhry, Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, Department of Periodontics, gave an overview of the video database developed in partnership with ITS-Instructional Services.
The session concluded with a discussion of the technology infrastructure currently in place for the creation and delivery of these media technologies.
| Handouts: | podcasting | streaming media |
ViDe: Video Development Initiative Annual Conference
The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) organization promotes the deployment of digital video in research and higher education through promotion and development of interoperable, standardized, and cost-effective technologies. ViDe is recognized for developing the ViDe Video Conferencing Cookbook - recognized by industry and higher education as the premier "how-to" manual for getting started with Internet videoconferencing, H.350 Directory Services Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing, and the annual ViDe Conference that brings together educators, technologists, librarians, archivists and policymakers to discuss a broad range of issues relating to the development and deployment of video-over-IP in higher education.
| This year’s ViDe conference, "The Whole Shebang: Converged Communication Technologies in the Campus Information Ecosystem - Are We There Yet?," focused on converged collaboration, conferencing, voice, and media in the networked, web and mobile environments. Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium (NMC), gave the keynote address where he described the NMC’s efforts to explore virtual spaces. Other conference sessions covered activities taking place on campuses that relate to merging communication technologies into an integrated, seamless and ubiquitous information ecosystem. For more information visit the ViDe conference website. |
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ViDe members include those interested in improving and deploying scalable, standards-based digital video architecture and services for use in research and higher education. The University of Iowa's ViDe representative is Les Finken, ITS-Instructional Services. He has attended several of the ViDe annual conferences, participated on ViDe conference committees, and is a member of the ViDe Steering Committee.
