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The best live video streaming technology
Posted May 22nd, 2007 by ehuangHow many of you have ever used the very popular Flash video streaming technology to do live video streaming for real? I guess very few. Do you know what the best live video streaming technology is today? This could be an expensive question because, once you have invested in a wrong technology, chances are you will stick to it. As a result, you will pay a big price later in many senses.
Live video streaming is widely used in distance education, Web conferencing, online movie delivery, broadcast and so on. Knowing the answer to this question is important to streaming video producers and their companies, schools, government agencies, or organizations. Unfortunately, the answer to this question is not available.
NMC Spring 2007 Survey on Educators in Second Life
Posted May 1st, 2007 by NMCToday the New Media Consortium opened a survey aimed at drawing a picture of the current and planned activities and interests of educators involved in the virtual environment, Second Life.
Since March 2006 the NMC has been actively engaged in the frontier of virtual worlds with the establishment and expansion of its . This effort has been a natural extension of the research in previous reports from the NMC's Horizon Project.
To further our understanding of how educators are using Second Life as well as to better frame the demographics of this audience, we are conducting an online anonymous survey open now through May 25. If you are an educator (faculty, staff, student, adminsitrator) and have an active Second Life account, we appreciate your willingness to answer our 42 item survey available at:
Results of Fall 2006 NMC Member Survey
Posted April 5th, 2007 by NMCThe nearly 250 members of the NMC provide a unique cross section institutions using technology to support teaching, learning, and creativity. Each year we collect information from our members about the current practices in our field of New Media for both a snapshot of current practices overall, and to provide benchmarks for our members.
The results of the survey are attached below.
In December 2006 we surveyed 237 NMC institutions to collect information on services provided, technologies used, and current projects. Attached you will find the results of this survey, including data on use of NMC benefits media services provided, exploration of new technologies, support for technologies (e.g. audio/video streaming, blogs, wikis, and iTunesU), use of open-source tools, and more.
