Wimba Podcaster from Wimba Inc.
July 8, 2008 by Eric · Leave a Comment
The Wimba Podcaster from Wimba Inc. is a part of the Wimba Voice Tools suite. Blackboard Building Blocks and Blackboard Powerlinks are available with Wimba Voice Tools to create a seamless and easy end user experience for faculty and students.
Based on Wimba Inc.’s Voice Board technology, the Wimba Podcaster allows students and faculty to create a podcast together. Recordings can be uploaded or recorded with the online Java based tool. The Wimba Podcaster is currently optimized for voice which means that music files can lose fidelity.
Echo360 (Apreso Anystream)
July 8, 2008 by Eric · Leave a Comment
Formerly Apreso Anystream, back in August of 2007, the company acquired a software called Lectopia from the University of Western Australia. In October, Apreso changed their name to Echo360. The lecture capture technology offered by Echo360 includes software only (for laptops), support for dedicated classroom PC’s, and a dedicated hardware appliance.
The unique aspect of Echo360 is that it is completely hands-off if desired. That is, the system can be linked to a campus classroom scheduling program to automatically start and stop the recording based on the instructors’ schedule. That is, the instructor doesn’t have to do anything to have their class recorded. The system starts and stops recording automatically.
Echo360 can publish to iTunes U and a wide array of streaming playback formats. A Blackboard Building Block is also available to provide a seamless and automated way for students to access course recordings.
Panopto CourseCast
July 8, 2008 by Eric · Leave a Comment
Panopto is a relatively new player in the Enterprise lecture capture market. Through Panopto’s “Socrates Project”, Panopto’s lecture capture technology is offered for free to accredited academic institutions.
CourseCast is the name of the lecture capture product. The soon to be released version 2.0 will be able to not only allow faculty to capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet, but also it will support the delivery of the capture as a podcast.
Mediasite from Sonicfoundry
July 3, 2008 by kevin · Leave a Comment
Medasite is a course capture, podcasting solution that even features live broadcasting. Viewers can tune in live to your presentations or watch the recording at a later date. Mediate site is a hardware based solution. It connects to your computer and records everything on the screen via the VGA port. It captures audio from the computer, and video from a camera. Read more
Tegrity Campus
July 3, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Tegrity Campus is an enterprise level course capture and podcasting system. It is a very robust server based system for both Mac and PC clients. Users will need a client installed on their machine. Lectures are captured locally and uploaded to the Tegrity server upon completion and cataloged. Read more
Podcast Producer
June 21, 2008 by kevin · Leave a Comment
Podcast Producer is complete podcasting solution for the enterprise. It is very simple to use. Podcast Capture, the program you see a screenshot on the left, is part of the OS X 10.5 (Leopard) operating system. To use it, you need to have access to a Mac OS X server.
You log in, chose how you want to record, and choose one of the workflows available. Workflows tell the Mac OS X server how to compress the video and where to send it or publish it. Options for publishing include iTunes U, Apple Blog on the server, ftp, sftp, and to a volume. Read more
