Monthly Archives: September 2010

We finally have our capture solution running. And it turns out that it should be simpler that we thought. Instead of calling up your session on the touch screen, you simply ask for a time in advance. We can schedule lecture recordings for specific times and people. All you need to do is confirm the schedule on the touchscreen built into the desk.

You can press a button to extend the recording. By default we’ll match the recording time to the schedule. But you can add 5, 15, 30, or 50 minutes if desired. You can also pause the recording.

The key task from this point is to find a model that works, then integrate it into our VLE and iTunes U. We will do these separately – I think. We will use our own method to prepare and stream the video, so there will be some experimenting while we get it right.

All in all, looks like it will be an interesting experiment. We will keep you posted.

First week of semester and it can loosely been described as busy. Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve been up to:

- We’ve got our new VLE up and running and it seems to be am improvement. For students information like printer balances and email is available on login. We also automated enrollment and instituted single signing.

- The echo 360 media recording platform is now up and running. We have to fine tune it a bit, but it starts recording lectures this week.

- We’ve almost finished moving Athens to single sign on. This is the last system to require its own password.

- We finished training sessions for go. Estimates are that we managed to train a third of the staff in the first two weeks of semester. We followed this up with print outs and a video-based help site.

- our iPhone app is ready. We only have to launch it and we will be one of the very few colleges with one. We plan to develop it as an ongoing project.

Those are the highlights for now. We’ll be doing some conference blogging next month, and we have a few ongoing projects you’ll be hearing more about. We’ll also be moving into publicity mode, demonstrating our projects and learning more about where you think future VLE development should go. Stay tuned.