In between keeping all things computing running at Thayer, we always have several projects in the works. Here’s a quick overview of projects we’re currently working on or planning. In no particular order…
Email and collaboration tools
Dartmouth’s Council on Computing has constituted a task force to determine Dartmouth’s requirements for future email and collaboration tools. Thayer School’s Director of Computing Services is on the task force and seeks your thoughts on the subject.
Hard drive based back up server
We are a “belt and suspenders” computing staff. To [snip...]
As I described in a previous blog post, “Video Recording with Synchronized Slides“, we use a Canopus TwinPact 100 framegrabber to capture the presenter’s screen. This is recorded right along side video of the presenter speaking. The TwinPact 100 converts a VGA video signal to Firewire.
Recently I came across the Epiphan VGA2USB frame grabber. While simpler, it looked like it might shed features we don’t really need, while providing better video quality. We decided to order [snip...]
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Posted 21 March 2008
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I made a tweak to this week’s Jones Seminar videos. They should now play on any iPod that supports video playback… in theory anyway. I’ve tested it on an iPhone and the latest generation iPod Nano and it works great. All future videos will be iPod/iPhone compatible.
If you subscribe to the Jones Seminar video podcast, it can automatically be synced to your mobile player. Haven’t you always wanted to get your Jones Seminar [snip...]
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Posted 14 February 2008
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The weekly Jones Seminar is not only video recorded, but now is available in Podcast form. By subscribing to the Jones Seminar podcast in iTunes, or any other podcast client, you can get the Jones Seminar delivered automatically to your computer and iPod.
The Jones Seminar takes place each Friday, and we try to get the video posted by the following Monday.
To subscribe the Jones Seminar podcast, see the, “Subscribe to our Podcasts” section on the Jones Seminar page.
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Posted 09 November 2007
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A few months ago, the IT department was asked if it was possible to enhance the state of our video recording system for the Jones Seminar, a weekly one hour presentation held at Thayer School. Our existing set up was a single video camera zoomed out so the speaker and the projection screen were both visible in the frame. The video was captured with QuickTime Broadcaster and sent to a QuickTime Streaming Server. Technically, the system worked alright, however it [snip...]
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Posted 07 November 2007
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