After using two portable Recorders for several years, the University of Dubuque Media Services department and the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary distance education program installed five classroom Recorders in the summer of 2008. The installation was the result of buy-in from several different departments and the school's CFO to invest in long-term online and distance education tools. The presentation will focus on 1) selling Mediasite to various department leaders and 2) managing the design and installation process with a third party vendor. We will summarize how Mediasite is currently being used for a wide range of campus classes and activities.

Production value doesn't have to go by the wayside just because you're webcasting live. With multiple remotely controlled cameras and a switcher you can create video that's more engaging. Scott shares tips and tricks, talks about the gear he's using and shows how to create a modest interview-style studio for that one person can run around $10K.

Constant challenges to cost-effectively produce and deliver timely, accurate and complex public employee benefits-related information prompted the Wisconsin Retirement System to look for new ways to reach and educate its more than 550,000 members. In June 2006, this small state agency added Mediasite as a communications tool and immediately enhanced the quality, effectiveness, and reach of its messages. This session provides simple tips and techniques for creating effective, yet simple, webcasts on a narrow budget in a simplified production environment.

If you are like me, your local business unit approached you with the simple task to "reduce travel cost" and enable users to "communicate more effectively” (without spending any money!). Hopefully, you've already achieved your initial goals. Let's take the next steps to make webcasting successful for the rest of your enterprise. I'll share how I developed and grew a webcasting model for a local research lab into a worldwide company standard for video delivery. I’ll cover: webcasting integration into a broader technological strategy (telepresence, virtual meetings, video conferencing and podcasting); working with and within IT to develop infrastructure allowing you to grow; evangelizing rich media within your company; developing strategic partnerships with the collaboration experts; and showing real (and unreal) TCO/ROI.

In an era of budget reductions and cost-cutting, CSU's Department of Nursing has continued to provide high quality support services to students while reducing the time required for these functions. Marsha shares how a distance education program uses Mediasite to develop recruitment, advisement, and orientation sessions for students and faculty. By creating brief, targeted modules, the technology support staff have significantly decreased calls from students who need assistance. Best practices will include module length considerations, access to modules, creation of modules, and labeling of modules.

Integrating Mediasite with videoconferencing (Polycom, Tandberg, Sony, etc) allows both presenters and audiences to be spread around the globe, opening a new universe of communication possibilities. Videoconferencing, which is usually seen as one-to-one, can be used as a one-to-many resource, both for live and on-demand content. This presentation will show basic concepts and technical aspects of videoconferencing integration, from simple settings to sophisticated multi-point, multi-webcast, multi-lingual settings.

Delivering a mission critical lecture capture system to support a satellite campus in less than six months may seem impossible, but that was exactly the challenge facing the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. This session presents how the school implemented Mediasite to record all first year Doctor of Pharmacy courses and deliver them as the primary method of instruction to a brand new satellite campus across the state while maintaining accreditation and consistent student performance. Expanding school and campus infrastructure to support the delivery of high-availability content, budget conscious planning, the creation and adoption of new AV standards in a manageable framework, staff support, faculty development, and student, faculty, and organizational impacts will all be discussed.

In 2008, the Office of Global Outreach and Extended Education within the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University had the unique opportunity to integrate Mediasite into an engineering design capstone course to collaboratively design an airplane across several different time zones. Octavio shares how ASU successfully initiated this tri-nation, tri-university, online "global collaboration” project which combines videoconferencing, webconferencing and learning management systems with Mediasite.