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What do the world's most demanding lecture capture systems have in common? You know, the ones running 300+ classrooms. Or 800+ weekly captures. Or an average of well over 10,000+ unique weekly views. Pretty simple, they all run EchoSystem and they all save money doing so. Echo360 is pleased to announce the latest release of the platform...

Are you going to EduCause this year? Come visit me at our booth (1209) and find out what we have been working on.

- Tom

EchoSystem 3.0 is now generally available for download. We had a slight delay as we worked out a licensing arrangement with a partner of ours. We hope this does not cause any problems for you or your deployment plans. Thanks for your patience.

For more information about the release feel free to the view product webinar recording here...

Last week's Alt-C 2009 was a really enjoyable, interesting conference. The keynote presentations were of a high standard, as usual - I particularly enjoyed Michael Wesch's presentation entitled "Mediated Culture/Mediated Education"...

We've gotta get cracking on our presentation. I think it will be insightful and useful for other institutions. We are going to talk about the rapid expansion of lecture capture at our campus and some of the challenges that this meant to us as both system administrators and instructor support.

Moodlemoot AU has just drawn to a close with keynote speech from David Parkin, well-known Australian Football identity. All-in-all the conference was successful and we met lots of interesting people from the Moodle community, including a number of Echo360 clients.

The Echo360 Flip HD video camera prize was drawn and the winner was .... Sue...

Have you defined a formal policy for content retention at your institution?

What is your institutions policy for content retention?

How long do you retain content on the ESS?

• 1 semester, 2 semesters

• 1 year, 2 years

Just how many captures can this thing hold, anyway?

A little background: the Echo360 Capture Appliance is a network-dependent device. If you've ever used one, you know that it needs to talk to your ESS so it can upload your recordings. What...

Having not quite completed the latest rollout of rooms for semester 1, I thought it would be good to share some of the leasons learned and ideas I've got for making the install process better. Project managing is almost as hellish as being a System admin with lots of people expecting the impossible and not deliverying their part. It's an...

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions expressed in this blog are my own, and not representative of Swinburne University. I also reserve the right to change my opinion without updating this blog, so consider it a "snapshot" of my thoughts at a given epoc.

I've often pondered the pedagogical value of Talking Head Cameras...

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