Turnkey Class Capture

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Turnkey Class Capture
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Class Capture Archive

• Analog to digital conversion, and recording, of
  audio, video, and presentation (usually laptop)
  sources, all ultimately re-combined into a common
  display experience. Some systems allow live
  transmission of such captures all of them
  archive these sessions for post-class playback.

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System Elements

• Capture Station
• a device (usually a computer with analog to
  digital capture cards) to which you connect the
  camera, microphone, and laptop. Some systems
  require a standalone, specially-configured
  computer as the capture station some will use
  the presentation laptop itself, with necessary
  software loaded on the computer.

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System Elements

• A server, or servers, to reflect the live, or
  archived, video stream(s), and to web serve
  graphics and browser windows, and manage the
  content organization (schedule of recordings,
  resulting file names and links, metadata, etc.)
  of the captured sessions.

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System Elements
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Does Class Capture Work?

• Can you hear (and see) me now??? Yes?
• So
• In a perfect world, it does.
• Perfect world a technology equipped space, or a
  system where staffing creates a technology
  equipped space.
• Imperfect world average un-staffed classroom.

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The Devils Details

• Who assures media production values?
• Production value the minimum level of a/v
  quality that avoids distraction
• But
• the higher the production values, the more
  likely there are

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The Devils Details

• Personnel Points! (aka, pain points).
• What wont change is the need for a presence
  behind the camera. Instructors tend to move
  around in the roomso somebody has to be there to
  redirect the camera.
• How Dartmouth Produces Video Podcasts

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The Devils Details

• Personnel Points! (aka, pain points).
• The main lesson learned from this unsuccessful
  experience (dispersing portable equipment to
  lecture halls) is that lecturers should not be
  involved in the technical aspects inherent to a
  lecture-recording system.
• Lecture Capture What Can Be Automated?
• Educause Quarterly, November 2, 2007

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• I told Sonic Foundry that I wasnt going to buy
  anything that required me to hire another person
  to use. After a half hour of training, I recorded
  eight hours of our national sales meeting.
• Tami StubbeDirector of CommunicationsThermo
  Electron Corporation

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Whats an Administrator to do?

• The Technology Acqusition Decision Hierarchy
• Pedagogical appropriateness
• Financial acceptability
• Operational viability

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Whats an Administrator to do?

• The Financial dilemma
• What is the instructional amortization (the
  learning ROI) that informs technology (class
  capture) investment?

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Class Capture what do faculty want?
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• U Profs Call New Science Building Too
  Experimental
• Pioneer Press, 10/03/07
• I have heard no outcry from these folks
  students assessed in satisfaction surveys that
  the teaching being done in the science classroom
  building is deficient because of the classroom
  size
• Tenured Faculty who teaches large classes
• (reaction to loss of class space due to concept
  labs)

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What do students want?
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What do students want?
Scott McLeod, Technology Learning, August, 2007
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What do students want?
Its a fairly damning indictment of
postsecondary teaching when students can see the
possibilities of digital video, podcasts, blogs,
wikis and other tools when their instructors
cant Ultimately, students will migrate to
universities that get it Technology lagging
colleges and universities will be left to cry in
their books while students take their learning,
and their tuition, elsewhere.
Scott McLeod, Technology Learning, August, 2007
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The Third Screen

• third screen n. A video screen, particularly the
  screen on a cell phone, that a person uses almost
  as often as their television and computer
  screens.

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Are we focusing on the right screen?

• Nearly half, or 44, of the 2,337 online
  respondants surveyed in March by JupiterResearch
  do want video on their phone.
• The iPhone foretells the obsolescence of
  traditional consumer products.
• Boyd Peterson, the Yankee group