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Kent Matsueda

FWD: February 2010 ITS Adobe Connect Demo Session

Below is the next session for our Adobe Connect demonstrations. The session demonstrates the primary features of the meeting room and answers questions that you might have. No registration or RSVP necessary.

*Wednesday, February 17, 2010, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Here is the link to the meeting room: https://breeze.psu.edu/r54559680/. Please come when you like, learn about the new features, different ways to use Adobe Connect, ask questions,… Continue

Posted by Kent Matsueda on January 26, 2010 at 4:28pm

Kent Matsueda

FWD: Webinar Opportunity "Using Web Conferencing in the Classroom"

Date: Sat., January 23, 2010
Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern
Location: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live (Links to the meeting room and other time zones can be found at http://live.classroom20.com/.)

This Saturday, January 23, Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 community, Classr… Continue

Posted by Kent Matsueda on January 22, 2010 at 11:03am

Kent Matsueda

Using Handbrake to re-encode a large video

I came in this morning and spoke with Linas about the ABA Practicum. We found that one student uploaded a 220+ MB file, only a few MB's lower than the 250 MB limit. We were a little surprised to find out that the video was only 0:01:20 long because it was encoded at over 23 Mbps! Commercial DVD's are encoded at around 9 Mbps and Bluray comes in at around 40 Mbps. This student was definitely going to have to re-encode their videos.Continue

Posted by Kent Matsueda on January 22, 2010 at 9:30am

Kent Matsueda

PSU's Blogging tool (MT4) on the iPhone

This is a screencast that demonstrates what the PSU Blog tool (Movable Type 4) looks like when you use your iPhone to make entries on-the-go. Click on this link to view the screencast.

Posted by Kent Matsueda on January 20, 2010 at 11:10am

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Shannon Kennan

Introductions 3 Replies

Started by Shannon Kennan. Last reply by Brian Mulligan Jan 5.

Kent Matsueda

FWD: Is it acceptable to allow students to use their laptop computers during class? 2 Replies

Started by Kent Matsueda. Last reply by Shannon Kennan Nov. 19, 2009.

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