Multimedia

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  • Colleges find new revenue source online
    Wed, Sep 12, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Multimedia
    New web technologies are enabling college athletic departments to raise money through their web sites from tech savvy fans--who increasingly have the bandwidth to support platforms such as audio and video files. According to Nada Usina, president of XOS Technologies, a Sanford, Fla.-based company that helps schools host web sites, athletic department web sites have the potential to become a billion-dollar business. [ Read More ]

  • New must for b-school applicants: 'slideware'
    Tue, Jul 31, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Multimedia
    In what is believed to be a first, the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business will require prospective students to submit four pages of PowerPoint-like electronic slides with their applications beginning this fall. University officials say the idea is to encourage the kind of creativity and innovation that today's employers increasingly require, and they note that business-school students inevitably will have to master the technology if they hope to succeed. [ Read More ]

  • Internet radio fees postponed
    Thu, May 10, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Streaming Media
    The future of internet radio is in flux, as webcasters fight costly new royalty fees they say could force many smaller stations to close. Though they won't have to pay as much as commercial stations, college and high school radio stations that broadcast music online still would have to pay a minimum of $500 in new fees per year. [ Read More ]

  • Video helps overhaul district's curriculum
    Fri, Apr 13, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Video technologies
    In an effort to revamp its curriculum, Baltimore County Public Schools--the nation¹s 25th-largest school system--has installed video servers and a video-on-demand system in all of its 169 schools. Although the use of video on demand is nothing new for schools, what distinguishes Baltimore County¹s effort is that the district has formed teams of teachers in each school to brainstorm ways of using the videos to their fullest potential across each subject area. [ Read More ]

  • Missing the MySpace vote?
    Wed, Mar 21, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Multimedia
    Lawmakers who voted for a bill to force schools and libraries receiving federal funds to block access to MySpace and other social-networking web sites on their computers are among those who have created personal profiles on a special section of MySpace dedicated to the 2008 presidential election. The apparent contradiction points to the difficulty faced by lawmakers and educators as they try to protect children and teens from the dangers lurking in cyberspace--and it underscores the problems that can occur when lawmakers, many of whom have a limited understanding of internet issues, seek to legislate behavior in the Information Age. [ Read More ]

  • How to diffuse a blog bomb
    Fri, Mar 16, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Blogs
    Thanks to the proliferation of blogs on the internet, cyberspace is becoming an increasingly popular forum for would-be political critics and journalists to express their displeasures with state and local officials, including school board members. But, as eSchool News columnist Nora Carr points out in her latest column, elected officials who take offense to such commentary on public blogs should weigh their options carefully before going on the offensive. [ Read More ]

  • Kids produce video for TV shows
    Thu, Mar 08, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Video technologies
    Aiming to capitalize on the growing trend of user-created content, major television networks such as CNN, Nickelodeon, and TLC are inviting students as young as elementary school to shoot, edit, and star in videos that air on TV. [ Read More ]

  • Cdigix to drop its online music service
    Mon, Mar 05, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Multimedia
    Citing the needs of its education customers, digital entertainment and educational media provider Cdigix says it will stop providing its legal online music and movie downloading service to schools and focus solely on its on-demand content delivery system. [ Read More ]

  • Open access to public TV content sought
    Mon, Mar 05, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Video technologies
    The Association of Public Television Stations is spearheading a project that aims to digitize and preserve public TV programming. Under the plan, students, teachers, researchers, and others would have access to a vast digital archive of public TV content for research, education, and to create new digital works. [ Read More ]

 

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