Taking the Pulse on Educating the Next Generation of Nurses Join an expert faculty panel from Ball State University School of Nursing as they demonstrate how they use cutting-edge technologies to prepare nurses to succeed at the highest levels of the profession.

Thinking Outside the Box: Using Mediasite to Engage Faculty and Extend University Outreach From pilot demonstrations to multi-million dollar fund raising, from classroom captures to international collaborations, Jim Jorstad, Director of Educational Technologies, will show you how innovative webcasting applications helped to redraw the traditional big picture communication efforts at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

Mediasite at the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business Jim Goodlander, Associate Director of Technology, walks you through a typical day of academic, training and event webcasting. He shares key technology decisions to explore when first starting - or expanding - your campus webcasting program, successful strategies for moving beyond classroom lectures and the importance of word of mouth in fueling adoption.

Using Webcasting to Enhance Legal Education, Litigation and Outreach Faculty and staff from St. Mary’s University School of Law and the Texas Supreme Court describe the critical role technology plays in training students for the real world practice of law in a high-tech age, and the driving forces behind their courtroom webcasting initiative.

Rich Media Instruction - The Top Six Reasons Faculty Choose to Teach Online York University's Diane Zorn explores how online, rich-media teaching can be easy and effective. Common excuses for not using online, rich-media teaching are debunked and questions about the effective use of rich media are addressed. The presentation empowers participants to create viable online learning environments that facilitate learning, community, and self-sufficiency for students and instructors with minimal time and energy and maximum results.

Using Webcasting for Continuing Education in Healthcare Russ Scaduto and Harjit Singh from Milton S. Hershey Medical Center discuss how they use webcasting to expand access to medical education and training.

A New Era in Education: e-Learning Seminar by the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Learning University of Pittsburgh faculty discuss the distance education program that led to sixteen Macedonia graduates receiving their Masters in Public Policy and Management from the University.

Enhancing the Learning Environment with Webcasting: Best Practices Colleges and universities are increasingly looking to technology to help them revolutionize information delivery and communication to their students. In this webinar, an expert panel of faculty from Clemson University will offer best practices for enhancing the learning environment through Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite® web communications solution and demonstrate how to increase student success through webcasting technology. Learn how webcasting can enhance students’ learning environment – both on and off campus. Presenters will share their innovative methods for integrating webcasting with other media on campus, like course management systems.

Information Technologies – Rich Media Multicasting at Lockheed Martin Staff from Lockheed Martin’s Integrated Systems and Solutions provides an introduction to its multicast-based communication system at CTEC 2006 (Convergence Technologies Expo & Conference).

Introduction to Mediasite.com Sonic Foundry’s CEO introduces Mediasite.com, a search engine for finding publicly-available presentations and lectures created with Mediasite.

Successful Communication Strategies to Achieve your Public Health Goals The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Public Health uses Mediasite to build partnerships around preparedness, coordinate pandemic influenza planning and manage other public health risk and preventive communication strategies.

Mediasite Tech Tip: High Quality Rich Media Recording Sonic Foundry staff provide tips for recording Mediasite presentations.

Mediasite Your Campus Brief overviews of the Mediasite webcasting and content management solution.

Mediasite Your Enterprise Brief overview of the Mediasite webcasting and content management solution.

Promoting Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare: Part One Learn about Mediasite technology as a web-based multimedia communication system to manage and deliver organizational solutions for collaboration, coordination, workforce development and communication relative to ehealth and other key initiatives.

Promoting Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare: Part Two This presentation will discuss some of the challenges healthcare organizations face in addressing the goals of the eHealth initiative and identify specific ways in which Mediasite can be used to solve these problems in promoting health information technology use to drive improvement in the quality, safety and cost of healthcare.

Villanova College of Engineering Mediasite Case Study School officials from the College of Engineering at Villanova discuss using Mediasite in the classroom for enhanced student learning and distance education.

2006 Rich Media Impact Awards Second Annual Rich Media Impact Awards from InfoComm 2006, Peabody Hotel, Orlando, Florida. Sonic Foundry created the Rich Media Impact Awards to recognize excellence in the practical and creative integration of Mediasite in business, education, health and government. Members of the Mediasite user community were invited to nominate organizations that achieved measurable improvements in accessibility, cost savings, efficiency and productivity through rich media.

Best Practices for Building your Online CME Program Medical educators are increasingly incorporating web communications into classroom learning as a way to bring students to the front lines of medicine. In this webcasts, an expert panel of faculty from the University of Connecticut Health Center and School of Medicine and Penn State College of Medicine will offer best practices for enabling medical staff to access training on-demand to further their expertise anytime, anywhere through Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite® web communications solution.

Rich Media Communications Featured at Accelerate Madison, Sonic Foundry CEO, Rimas Buinevicius, explores the emerging world of live and on-demand visual/audio communications combining elements of Web 2.0, webcasting, online content search and knowledge retrieval into a powerful new form of information exchange, also known as rich media communications. He reveals some of the new ways the industry is advancing this technology and transforming the way corporate, government and education enterprises capture and convey knowledge.

Strategies for Building a Rich Media Learning Environment Laureen Jones from Victoria University speaks from the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit, Sydney 2007, on using rich media webcasting to deliver improved student education. With the arrival of on-line learning and the rapidly changing demands of students, Victoria University implemented Mediasite to deliver a better quality learning experience. Discover their considerations, objectives and challenges of implementing webcasting for distance and distributed learning and how it has improved their learning outcomes.

Online Course Design: Proven Techniques for Enhancing Learning Using Webcasting Diane Zorn, Course Director from York University, discusses how to design and implement a first year undergraduate course online. She also covers how to complete a learning environment review when considering web-based options for student-centered learning. Take a guided tour of a proven web course based on the 10 principles of online education and receive a valuable instructor toolkit for designing your own coursework.

2007 Rich Media Impact Awards Third Annual Rich Media Impact Awards from UNLEASH 2007, the Mediasite User Conference. Sonic Foundry created the Rich Media Impact Awards to recognize excellence in the practical and creative integration of Mediasite in business, education, health and government.

Webcasting for Training Remote Personnel Francis Whalen, Director of the National Lab Training Network for the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), shares her success using Mediasite to webcast just-in-time training to laboratories across the country. Learn how webcasting with Mediasite has transformed critical learning outcomes without becoming a technology burden. Discover how APHL uses webcasting to communicate emerging information on CDC directives and new legislation to remote locations 24 hours a day.

Why Webcasting? How CEOs Are Advancing Their Message Join Chief Executive Editor-in-Chief J.P. Donlon for an interview with Rimas Buinevicius, CEO and Chairman of Sonic Foundry, and Edward Kopko, CEO and President of Butler International, as they discuss webcasting as an emerging communication platform for CEOs.