Instructional Technology News

Equipment now built in to most classrooms

Now almost all small seminar rooms and classrooms at York have a built in TV, VHS, DVD, and overhead projector. The benefits? Since the equipment is permanently installed, there's no need to place an order in advance of your class and no log on code required to use the built in equipment.

Most of the lecture halls now have built in projectors and podiums with a computer, LCD screen and in some cases, a document camera. While you will need initial training to use the podium, once you have completed the training and obtained an access login, you will not need to place an ITC order for courses held in the rooms with this equipment.

To find out about equipment available in the various classrooms across campus, see the ITC website: http://www.cns.yorku.ca/itc/rooms.html.

Streaming Audio

Streaming audio (an audio recording which is made available over the internet) can be helpful to students in reviewing and understanding complicated material, or useful in catching up on a missed lecture.

If you wish your lectures to be recorded for later listening by students, ITC can do so in the Control Room of a number of buildings (see chart below). No additional equipment is needed in the lecture hall; when you use the neck microphone the audio is sent to the control room and to the recorders.

Once recorded, lectures can be encoded as Real Media audio files, placed on the CNS Streaming Server and made available to your students within twelve hours. ITC provides each instructor with the files required to link to and launch the audio lectures on your course website.

At your request, ITC can also copy and save your lectures for you on a CD at the end of each term.

Streaming with MediaSite Live

In some lecture halls (see chart below) using MediaSite Live technology the audio portion of a lecture can be captured and streamed along with the video of the instructor and any computer or document camera output used in the lecture. No extra equipment is required in the lecture hall. The audio and video are captured from the instructor's neck microphone and the built in camera, and the computer and document camera output is captured at the same time.

The lecture can be webcast live and stored for on-demand use, and can be made available on your course website right after the class.

MediaSite Live technology is also available in the Multimedia Production Studio in Stedman. Use it to record material for later use, such as a guest speaker's presentation, or for recording lectures ahead of time with graphics, for presentation in the classroom when the instructor is unable to attend.

See a list of rooms that support Streaming Audio and MediaSite Live.

More Information

For information on videoconference and streaming, contact Jim Poole ext. 77684, jpoole@yorku.ca.

For arranging MediaSite Studio recordings, contact Kelly Parke ext. 77688, kparke@yorku.ca.

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