TTIX 2010
For the past few years I’ve been involved with the Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange, specifically the filming and archiving of presentations to be hosted online. This used to be somewhat of a tedious, time-consuming process… but last year we took some major steps forward, thanks in large part to some new/free tools available.
Last year we opted to use Ustream as the mechanism to stream all of the conference presentations live and this year we did the same. One of the great features of Ustream is the ability to record your stream and subsequently and almost effortlessly archive it online. For the keynote presentations we also chose to do a 3-camera shoot incorporating lower 3rds, scrolling text, and other motion graphics all live using another great piece of software in BoinxTV. To get the live feed from Boinx to Ustream we used other free software – Camtwist and Soundflower.
The productions are still far from perfect with plenty of little glitches and kinks to work out, but all in all it has been an amazing progression. To stream a sophisticated multi-camera shoot on-location live to recipients anywhere in the world, who then have the ability to interact using other integrated social networking tools (the majority of which are all free) is an amazing and exciting thing… a major step forward in instructional technology.
