http://www.academictechnology.org Evaluating emerging technologies and their teaching implications in higher education Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:53:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you who teach or work in public space [a.k.a. cubicles], here's a new tool that you can use to drown out the loud talkers, external speaker users, and speakerphone junkies who just don't get sharing space to work.  It's called Noise. Our office is all public and it ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/07/08/drowning-the-noise/ The Need There arose a challenge with faculty to be able to share with students more fluid content in their teaching through an online delivery mechanism. Through Blackboard, students collaborate in the discussion boards, faculty teach, but delivering an interactive rich media experience still has a large learning curve. A few months ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/06/02/creating-interactive-instructional-video-for-the-web/ We're excited to welcome another guest contributor to the community. Daniel Shackelford is a system administrator from Spring Arbor University. He is currently trying to set up and configure Leopard Server and Podcast Producer with some pretty amazing automation. Please welcome and post comments to his posts. As ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/04/18/generate-itunesu-workflows-for-podcast-producer/ All video cameras are not alike. Especially when looking at options for educational technology. Recently we went through a technology review to create a flexible system to allow audio and video content to be captured and uploaded to a system that could connect with Blackboard and allow students ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/04/15/video-for-podcasting-wrap-up/ New Contributor We're pleased to welcome Allan Carrington as a guest contributor to our community. Allan is a learning designer from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is one of the foremost authorities on the integration of technology in teaching. Please welcome Allan Carrington. Introduction I have two masters degrees, ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/03/27/jitt-an-introduction/   In the process of developing recording strategies for classrooms and individual faculty we considered a broad range of technologies, including hardware, software, and enterprise level systems. Because of both funding and workload constraints we chose to adopt a simpler approach to recording, with the understanding that more scalable options would ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/03/24/podcasting-tools-review-of-zoom-h2-recorder/ Tunes or No Tunes? We have Blackboard as our LMS and needed to create a way for rich media to feed into each course while being authenticated. We looked at Quicktime Streaming Server, Flash, even an enterprise type Youtube. None had a workflow that would really accommodate something that ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/01/17/50/ LAMS Podcast. Listen to the latest episode below. Listen to the latest Educational Technology Podcast which features the teaching technology called LAMS. LAMS stands for Learning Activity Management System.   Allan Carrington, Learning Designer from University of Adelaide in Australia, introduces a cutting-edge concept for taking Blackboard or online ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2008/01/07/introduction-to-lams/ The past nine months have had our office researching and testing various pieces of equipment and putting together both an audio and video capturing system for our university. We have a few pieces of infrastructure in place, but needed to find the right tools to come along side what ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2007/12/19/creating-a-media-capture-workflow-for-higher-education/ Social Bookmarking Podcast. Listen to the latest episode below.Social Bookmarking is something that is moving from Web developers to educators. This trend is leading us toward social bookmarking as a way to connect not only faculty to each other but faculty to their students. Here are a ... http://www.academictechnology.org/2007/11/05/social-bookmarking/