The recorded presentations for the Kaltura Video Summit for Enterprise and Education 2013 are now available for on-demand viewing at:
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On 06/12/2013,
in convergence, digital video, smart/connected TV, technologies for your home, television, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
60 beautiful examples of websites with full-blown video backgrounds — from hongkiat.com by Nancy Young
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From DSC:
Yes, you read that right. Video-based backgrounds — motion pictures. Another great example of the convergence that’s been happening with the TV, the telephone, and the computer.
On 06/11/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, accessibility / UDL, active learning, assistive technologies, Bring your own device (BYOD), communications, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, distance education, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, face-to-face, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, lifelong learning, mirroring and/or multiple devices, multimedia, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, professional development, reinvent, robotics, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, staying relevant, student-related, tablets, technology (general), telepresence, television, training / L&D, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), videoconferencing, virtual field trips, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
- What if you want to allow some remote students to come on into your face-to-face classroom?
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- What if you want to allow those remote students to be seen and communicated with at eye level?
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- What if you want Remote Student A to join Group 1, and Remote Student B to join Group 2?
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Well…how about using one of these devices in order to do so!
New video collaboration robot: TelePresence gets moving — from cisco.com by Dave Evans
Excerpt:
That is why Cisco’s new joint effort with iRobot—demonstrated publicly this week for the first time—is so exciting: We’ve created a mobile Cisco TelePresence unit that brings collaboration to you—or, conversely, brings you to wherever you need to collaborate. Called iRobot Ava 500, this high-definition video collaboration robot combines Cisco TelePresence with iRobot’s mobility and self-navigation capabilities, enabling freedom of movement and spontaneous interactions with people thousands of miles away.
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iRobot Ava™ 500 Video Collaboration Robot — published on Jun 10, 2013
iRobot and Cisco have teamed to bring the Ava 500 video collaboration robot to market. The robot blends iRobot’s autonomous navigation with Cisco’s TelePresence to enable people working off-site to participate in meetings and presentations where movement and location spontaneity are important. The new robot is also designed to enable mobile visual access to manufacturing facilities, laboratories, customer experience centers and other remote facilities.
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From Attack of the Telepresence Robots! — from BYTE by Rick Lehrbaum
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| MantaroBot “TeleMe” | VGo Communications “VGo” | Anybots “QB” | Suitable Technologies “Beam” |
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Also see:
- Cisco, iRobot’s new bot lets workers roam the office from afar. — from smartplanet.com by Kirsten Korosec
. - Meet the next generation of smartphone-based robot companions — from popsci.com by Miriam Kramer
On 06/10/2013,
in Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, convergence, digital audio, digital video, multimedia, music, platforms, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
Also see:
- Crazy iPad numbers from the WWDC 2013 Keynote — from ipadinsight.com by Patrick Jordan
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- The Best Features Of iOS 7 — from techcrunch.com by Sarah Perez
. - Everything You Need to Know about iOS 7 — from hongkiat.com
Excerpts:
iBooks is now available on the Mac, giving users access to 1.8 million books including interactive textbooks.
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AirDrop Sharing Between iOS Devices <– potential uses in the Smart Classrooms…?
AirDrop is now available for transfers between iOS devices via peer-to-peer WiFI connection. Turning on the Share Sheet on an app, you can find users who are nearby and tap items to share. A notification will appear on their device and when they open it, it will open to the relevent app and show the content that you shared.
. - Apple’s WWDC 2013 Keynote: Highlights, Summary & History — from hongkiat.com by Singyin Lee
Excerpt:
Multiple Display <– potential uses in the Smart Classrooms…?
Multiple Display support allow you to work on, multiple screens, even though only one device is physically connected, even if it means you are using Apple TV as one of your screens. Full screen spaces can be pulled from one display to the next and the dock and other menus will be displayed on each connected screen as well.
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- Apple’s App Store hits 50 billion downloads, 900K apps, $10 billion paid to developers; iTunes now with 575M accounts — from techcrunch.com by Sarah Perez
On 05/30/2013,
in Adobe, Apple, communications, content development, aggregation, repositories, cost of getting a degree, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education technology, innovation, interactivity, mobile learning, streams of content,
by Daniel Christian
Below are some great resources re: creating your own e-books / streams of content — with thanks to Mr. Michael Haan, Technology Integration Specialist/Purchasing at Calvin College, for these resources
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- Adobe DPS:
http://www.adobe.com/education/products/digital-publishing-suite.html
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http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
. - Creating ePub/eBook books in Pages:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4168
. - Creating ePub/eBook in InDesign:
http://blogs.adobe.com/vikrant/2012/02/create-epub-ebooks-with-adobe-indesign/
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From DSC:
You might also want to check out Lynda.com for the relevant training materials.
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Let’s create our own streams of content — always up-to-date — plus we could help our students save big $$! And, as Michael pointed out, such tools could also be used internally for training-related and communications-related purposes.
Thanks Michael!!!
On 05/23/2013,
in CMS/LMS, communications, digital audio, digital video, multimedia, open courseware and systems, teaching & learning, UK,
by Daniel Christian
UK University deploys open source video platform for teaching and learning — from campustechnology.com by Leila Meyer
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On 05/16/2013,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, blended learning, Bring your own device (BYOD), collaboration, communications, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, distance education, education technology, educational games / serious games, experimentation, face-to-face, global / globalization, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, internet, IT in HE, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, nursing, online learning, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, tablets, technologies for your home, telecommunications, telepresence, television, training / L&D, vendors, videoconferencing, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
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From the Oblong.com website:
Mezzanine™ is a collaborative conference room solution that introduces multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device collaboration. This is next-generation communication: share any content from any device with anyone, anywhere.
Mezzanine transforms creative teamwork, executive meetings, and sales presentations into real-time, collaborative work sessions. Mezzanine expands on existing telepresence technology by providing what we call InfoPresence™—the incorporation of multiple users, multiple devices, and multiple streams of information in the collaboration environment. The future of conference room collaboration is here.
A Mezzanine workspace lets any person on a network bring their own device and share content and applications with any colleague, anywhere in the world, interactively. Mezzanine is a collaborative conference room solution combining presentation design and delivery, application sharing, whiteboard capture, and video conferencing, all within a framework of multi-participant control.
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Also see:
- Oblong Technovates with LA High School
. - Oblong at OME
Oblong Industries recently participated at OME, a summit hosted by UC San Francisco. The two-day summit focused on charting the future of precision medicine—an emerging field combining big data with clinical research and patient care to deliver insights and advances in treatment that is more targeted and enables improved patient outcomes.
On 05/13/2013,
in A/V -- audio/visual, collaboration, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital video, education technology, engagement / engaging students, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Interactive whiteboards are front and center in college classrooms — from edtechmagazine.com
A look at whiteboards at New York’s Touro College.
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From DSC:
We currently have 3 types of Interactive WhiteBoards (IWB’s) on our campus: Epson BrightLinks, SMART Boards, and/or an Eno Board from PolyVision.
However, the idea of using mobile interactive whiteboards is becoming increasingly popular — i.e. being able to annotate on an iPad, for example, and having everyone in the class see these annotations. I’ve seen some K-12 folks use Apple TV for this type of thing, but Apple’s multi-cast wireless protocol doesn’t work as well for us in a campus environment. I’ve also seen/heard of people using one of the following solutions listed below as well. (I wish I had more time to check each of them out, but I’ll simply list them for you here.)
- AirServer
- Doceri Desktop
“With built-in remote desktop control you can access and annotate over files resident on your Windows PC or Mac and present them to your classroom or audience when a projector is connected.” - Splashtop Whiteboard
“This app allows me to not only control my computer remotely but I am able to see my entire desktop on my iPad and then mark up over ANY text or video!” - ExplainEverything.com
- Nearpod.com
- Doodlecastpro.com
- Educreations
- Scribbeo
“Annotate video & images directly on screen” http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scribbeo/id496099951?mt=8 - Coach’s Eye
“Annotate your video using lines, arrows, circles, squares and freehand tools.” http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coachs-eye/id472006138?mt=8 - Ink2Go
“You can easily write on top of any other application that is currently active on the desktop, even on a running video.” http://ink2.eyepowergames.com/
On 05/04/2013,
in 21st century, adult learning, digital video, education technology, K-12 related, learning spaces, lifelong learning, media/film, multimedia, smart classrooms,
by Daniel Christian
Lake Forest school unveils high-tech classroom — from by Danielle Gensburg
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
The new space, previously home to administrative offices, is colored with blues, greens, oranges and yellows and contains movable furniture, a green room for recording and filming movie projects, three large monitors, iPads, computers, digital recording equipment and library bookshelves.
“They wanted it to be set up where it would be more of a learning lab for life-long learners to engage and have student-directed learning,” Zeeman said.
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Deerpath Middle School unveiled “The Cube,” a new technology classroom, in April.
On 05/02/2013,
in Daniel S. Christian, education technology, higher education, ideas, K-12 related, music, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Also see:
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From DSC:
Reminds me of this graphic/idea I was thinking of a while back…
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On 04/04/2013,
in Adobe, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital video, using teams, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Adobe launches collaboration platform for video pros — from creativebloq.com
The software giant lends a hand to teams using its professional video tools with the launch of new service ‘Adobe Anywhere for Video’.
Adobe Anywhere for video aims to make your life easier
Excerpt:
Adobe have been keen to attract the attention of web designers this week, announcing updates to Flash Pro, Edge Reflow and Dreamweaver. But video professionals haven’t been forgotten, with the big news being the launch of Adobe Anywhere.
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Also see (from Adobe’s site):
On 04/02/2013,
in digital video, tools,
by Daniel Christian
Social video with Vyclone — from esuid.wordpress.com by Joseph Kern
Create dynamic, instantly-edited video collages
From website:
With Vyclone you can:
- Make multi angle movies — automatically syncs and edits footage filmed at the same event, making you a movie from multiple angles in minutes
- Find great multi-angle movies to watch by searching users, tags, location and trends. follow your friends, celebs, musicians or anyone making killer content
- Put your directors stamp on footage by remixing content with the playful vyclone editor, then share it with friends and fans
From DSC:
In his video, Joseph covers some potential apps for education. Thanks for putting this out there Joseph. I like the apparent ease of use of this tool.
On 03/01/2013,
in Adobe, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, smart/connected TV, transmedia, trends, UK,
by Daniel Christian
A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV — from guardian.co.uk by Alex Zambelli
We’re close to broadly available HD streaming which could trigger mass adoption of connected TV.
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A precursor to…
![The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg)
5 ways to add interactive elements to your videos — from freetech4teachers.com by Richard Byrne