I attended a webinar today hosted by Campus Techology® on a Web 2.0 product called "Tegrity."
Tegrity is a is a web 2.0 service that captures class lectures, slides, etc and "requires no classroom-based hardware/software to install or maintain, making it scalable and cost effective."
Key technical points that I thought were important:
•Supports Single Sign on
•Integrates with existing CMS (Backboard, WebCT, Sakai, Angel, Moodle, PeopleSoft/Oracle, SCT)
•Also integrates with iTunes. Very cool
•Scalable!
•Has an really cool intelligent search feature (almost like Google and/or Apple's Spotlight)
•Captures can be easily downloaded to mobile devices (the word iPod was thrown around many times.)
•RSS
•Web base and cross platform Works on IE, Firefox and Safari.
Key educational benefits:
•Students can easily recall key moments (better retention)
•Enables class time ALL the time.
•It's like having your own personal instructor at your finger tips
•Interesting quote from a student panel in the webinar. "If you can use YouTube you can use "Tergrity"
•"When lectures are "captured,"students don't have to choose between listening or taking notes. Everything the professor says and presents is captured and stored for later review anytime, anywhere."
•"In class, students listen, participate, and learn more."
•Tegrity is NOT a replacement for going to class, but more of a tool.
Will this allow student to skip class?
No! Students must attend class for a number of reasons; 1. professors make attendance a requirement and 2. If a professors is vague or you don't understand something you must be in class to ask questions.
No where could I find (maybe I didn't look hard enough) how you get the video into the Tegrity client. I am assuming that the institution using Tegrity will need a "technology enabled classroom" with some type of recording device. What about large classrooms like the Forum building? Mics would have to be strategically placed to allow for audio to be picked up from anywhere in the classroom.
Another interesting point I noticed is that there is no mention of cost anywhere on their website.
My final take is that Tegrity is an interesting product worth taking a closer look at, but I feel there are some underlying costs that aren't clearly defined.
Related links:
http://www.tegrity.com
I've also attached the webinar slides in PDF form that can be distributed freely.
presentation_teg1108_student_panel_final_mjvfinal.pdf
Go easy on me. This is my 1st blog post on a webinar.
Tegrity is a is a web 2.0 service that captures class lectures, slides, etc and "requires no classroom-based hardware/software to install or maintain, making it scalable and cost effective."
Key technical points that I thought were important:
•Supports Single Sign on
•Integrates with existing CMS (Backboard, WebCT, Sakai, Angel, Moodle, PeopleSoft/Oracle, SCT)
•Also integrates with iTunes. Very cool
•Scalable!
•Has an really cool intelligent search feature (almost like Google and/or Apple's Spotlight)
•Captures can be easily downloaded to mobile devices (the word iPod was thrown around many times.)
•RSS
•Web base and cross platform Works on IE, Firefox and Safari.
Key educational benefits:
•Students can easily recall key moments (better retention)
•Enables class time ALL the time.
•It's like having your own personal instructor at your finger tips
•Interesting quote from a student panel in the webinar. "If you can use YouTube you can use "Tergrity"
•"When lectures are "captured,"students don't have to choose between listening or taking notes. Everything the professor says and presents is captured and stored for later review anytime, anywhere."
•"In class, students listen, participate, and learn more."
•Tegrity is NOT a replacement for going to class, but more of a tool.
Will this allow student to skip class?
No! Students must attend class for a number of reasons; 1. professors make attendance a requirement and 2. If a professors is vague or you don't understand something you must be in class to ask questions.
No where could I find (maybe I didn't look hard enough) how you get the video into the Tegrity client. I am assuming that the institution using Tegrity will need a "technology enabled classroom" with some type of recording device. What about large classrooms like the Forum building? Mics would have to be strategically placed to allow for audio to be picked up from anywhere in the classroom.
Another interesting point I noticed is that there is no mention of cost anywhere on their website.
My final take is that Tegrity is an interesting product worth taking a closer look at, but I feel there are some underlying costs that aren't clearly defined.
Related links:
http://www.tegrity.com
I've also attached the webinar slides in PDF form that can be distributed freely.
presentation_teg1108_student_panel_final_mjvfinal.pdf
Go easy on me. This is my 1st blog post on a webinar.
Great overview. Thanks Tim!
How does Tegrity stack up against some of the other lecture capture solutions we saw at Berkeley?
(sorry if this is posted twice, it didn't show up the first time)
Thanks for the over Tim! This is very useful.
How does Tegrity stack up against the other lecture capture solutions we saw at Berkeley?