Posts Tagged: cats2008

CATS2008 session: Captivate v. Camtasia smackdown!

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Patrick Crispin has created an evaluation rubric to pit these two worthy competitors against each other, specifically Adobe Captivate 3 vs. Techsmith Camtasia 5 (newer than what we’re using in TLP). His matrix weights ease of editing very highly (appropriately, I think) but gives nearly equal weight to ease of recording and captioning. In his… Read more »

From the CATS town hall meeting

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Polling question: What technology-related tools/trends are currently “hot” on your campus? Answers: 30% web 2.0 (blogs, wiki, social networks), 27% clickers, 10% grassroots video, 10% podcasting. We voted 3 times to assess the top 3 per campus but I think the first result is the most interesting. Question: What technology would you like to see… Read more »

CATS2008 Session: Contributing to the CATS Knowledge Base

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Kevin Kelly from SFSU is guiding us in the use of the CATS Knowledge Base, a new wiki hosted by the Center for Distributed Learning where the collected wisdom of CATS and the CATS email lists can be collected. I’d contributed an early article to the ‘base about JAWS accessibility of our LMS for students,… Read more »

CATS2008 Roundtable Discussion

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Lots of heady content in this discussion bringing together representatives of ITAC and DAT communities as well as CATS leadership and… um… others. Kathy (our director) singled out our wiki adoption as a technology project that has the promise of a positive transformation for her team. The general consensus about what qualities make an employee… Read more »

Notes on a Keynote and our presentation

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During Andrew Keen’s keynote speech, we examined the Internet as a platform for human narcissism to become the driver in our culture. I’m either exemplifying this at the moment by blogging or maintaining my sanity. Because what I really sense here is a particularly painful lament for the old models of media business and cultural… Read more »