April 12, 2022
By: Todd Stabley
This April I attended the Northwest Managers of Educational Technology conference held this year in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Since there’s nothing quite like this group in the Southeast, it felt well worth it to me to fly across the country...
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March 23, 2022
By: Scott C Frey
The DDMC hosted Sennheiser's Steve Wingo who spoke about two very interesting technologies that might serve our community. Team Connect 2 The TeamConnect Ceiling 2, with its patented automatic dynamic beamforming technology, was already a leader in conference room audio technology....
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February 18, 2022
By: Mich Donovan
I had the pleasure of checking out a local production studio called Dynamic Video Group. For the Academic Media Production Team, this will be a great resource to point folks towards who don't fall under our typical purview or availability....
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November 30, 2020
By: Richard Mitchell
As we enter year 700 of COVID-19, some faculty and staff are looking at 2021 wondering how they can spice up their online teaching environment without spending hours or days learning a full-blown video production application. While Zoom offers a...
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June 23, 2020
By: Richard Mitchell
In the golden age of AV, when confronted with the joyous task of converting an HDMI signal to something a local computer could easily ingest, you would simply fork out $2,500+ on a proper 1U device that would elegantly make...
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February 10, 2020
By: Richard Mitchell
This past Friday, Cisco visited the Technology Engagement Center on Duke's campus to provide an update on their software and hardware offerings. While much of the conversation revolved around "behind the scenes" updates to the platform and general trends (on-prem...
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September 17, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
Since 2009, Blue Yeti USB microphones have dominated the YouTube, podcast, and vocal production world. With each update, the Yeti has adjusted to the demands of the users, and the new Yeti X is no different. The newly added LED...
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August 15, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
2019 WAS A FIRST for Panopto, Duke’s lecture capture provider, in that they held their User Conference near company headquarters in downtown Seattle. As this was only their third North American user conference (the previous two were held in downtown...
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July 19, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
It's always nice to have a visit from Biamp in the summer. For those that aren't in "the know," Biamp is "a leading provider of professional AV equipment well-suited for a variety of applications, including conferencing, paging, and video," or...
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May 31, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
The bring your own device (BYOD) meeting or teaching space has been a popular model for small and medium meeting and teaching spaces. With the rise of inexpensive and ultra-portable laptops and tablets, the traditional "local computer" has slowly lost...
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