Simplifying Webcast Presentations

The folks at Sonic Foundry released two new webcasting appliances, the Mediasite RL and ML, and the complementary EX Server v5.0 platform at InfoComm. Mediasite is a great way to record presentations and make them available to everyone in your district, solving universal challenges like new technology training: how do IT staff members give a presentation to every teacher about new equipment, procedures, programs, etc.? Most would have to present over and over: in one case study, Richmond (Ind.) Community Schools Staff Development Coordinator Valerie Biggs recalled giving the same presentation 18 times. Now the district uses Mediasite recorders to record lectures and presentations, and any teacher can log in whenever and wherever they want to see the video, hear the audio, and watch PowerPoint slides or other visual aids. Teachers can easily record lectures for students to watch at other times, parents can see what goes on in the classroom, board meetings can be recorded for the community to see... it's a technology with a lot of possibilities for applications, which is why a lot of colleges and universities, businesses and school districts already use Mediasite to make presentations easier to access.