College students are using Skype and Twitter to connect with other students in China and Egypt during key social revolutions.
When the City of Tallahassee and Leon County came together to create their Public Safety Complex, they decided on some interesting and state-of-the-art tech for their data center.
Two Internet digital safety experts discuss the dangers students face online and offer strategies for promoting digital safety.
Electrosonic proudly installs projection, touch screens, media players and a complete AV system in New York City’s National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Some professors struggle to keep students engaged in the classroom. Some professors even feel that technology is such a distraction to students that they ban technology in the classroom altogether. However, banning technology in the classroom may diminish students’ interest in a lecture, especially since today’s students expect to learn via technology. Instead of banning technology, professors should consider accepting technology in their classrooms, and include themselves in students’ relationship with technology. By encouraging a positive relationship with technology, professors will keep students engaged in the classroom and learn how to control technology usage in their classrooms.
Oblong Industries is a company that uses g-speak software to create spatial operating environments. We visited their office in Boston to see their collaboration and presentation solution, the Mezzanine, and more tech.
When Sound Productions of Dallas, TX decided to repurpose a section of their warehouse to create a demo room, they weren’t sure if they could convert the less-than-ideal space. Primacoustic helped them with acoustics.
With its new plasma video wall, NSLIJ can continue educating hospital employees and medical students.
The University of Toledo constructed a new simulation via AVI-SPL with technology provided by Cisco, Crestron, Barco and Sharp among others. The simulation center was built in order to give students, future healthcare professionals, a chance to get real world experience in the medical field before practicing on actual patients. The building was constructed based on the tri-center model, where there are three centers in one to train students. Each floor provides students with opportunities to practice debriefing skills, surgery, patient safety and treatment of human patient simulators. The simulation center is even open to people outside of the university, providing training, workshops and presentations.
As more AV equipment extends into the network, whether it be videoconferencing equipment, presentation displays, or collaboration tools, the world of AV and IT are becoming mixed. Should we be bringing them together in our companies?
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