November 20, 2018
By: Mich Donovan
This year, I had the opportunity to represent Duke at the Streaming Media West Conference by participating in the panel "Best Practices for Education & Training Video." Having seen the growth and development of our online course production over the...
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November 19, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Last week, Cisco visited Duke University's Technology Engagement Center (TEC) to offer an update on their WebEx/codec offerings. Greg Schalmo, a Senior Collaboration Architect at Cisco, detailed the transformation WebEx has undergone over the past six months. First, WebEx is...
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November 5, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
One of the most overlooked technical aspects of in-office or at-home online teaching is audio capture. AV folks are quick to recommend $100-$200 webcams to significantly improve the video quality and flexibility of the teaching environment. But, when it comes...
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October 31, 2018
By: Joseph Johnson
It's fall, pumpkin spice is in the air, the holidays are Christmas decorations are going up, and software giant has just released updates to their entire Creative Cloud suite of applications. Because the updates are so extensive, I've decided to...
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October 19, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
I'm sure if we went far enough back in time, there was once a person in a cave teaching tribal hunting techniques while pointing at a cave drawing with a stick. And thus, the "pointer" was born. Sure, the stick...
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October 15, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
With the rise of active learning in higher education, AV groups have been tasked with designing, installing and managing these unique and complex digital media systems. Unlike traditional classrooms, where you may see a few projectors, a single control interface,...
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September 25, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to remotely demo a few autonomous camera tracking systems for use in a classroom environment. The idea is appealing. By updating the camera in the classroom, you move away from a static...
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July 17, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Let's face it... humans like articulating concepts by drawing on a wall. This behavior dates back over 64,000 years with some of the first cave paintings. While we've improved on the concept over the years, transitioning to clay tablets, and eventually...
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April 10, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Big advances are taking place in intersection of video with AI (Artificial Intelligence). I ran across an interesting article in Streaming Media Magazine called The State of Video and AI 2018 that takes stock of some of these changes and...
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December 18, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
As the expectations of classroom and meeting space AV changes over time, so too must the approach of delivering advanced AV systems for teaching and learning environments. The Sanford School of Public Policy (SSPP), in collaboration with Duke Office of...
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