New Products

Photo of Gerard Hanley using Horizon Wimba's Open Room

Instructional Design and eTeaching Services evaluates new instructional technology products to help faculty who wish to incorporate technology into their teaching.

To determine which product suits your needs, to learn how to use one of the new products listed below, to find out the location of a new product, or to obtain a liscense for the software listed below, please contact eteach@bc.edu.

Respondus 2.0 is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to WebCT. Exams are created offline in a familiar Windows environment and the software provides many time-saving tools, such as the ability to import existing exams from word processor files. Company site: http://www.respondus.com/

Live Classroom by HorizonWimba allows instructors to have a live virtual classroom supporting audio, video, application sharing, and content display. This browser-based application enables instructors to add vitally important elements of interaction that simply cannot be provided in a text-based course. Personalize your online courses by holding live, online classes, office hours, guest lectures, webcasts, or meetings. Sign up for a live demo: http://www.horizonwimba.com/demos/. Company site: http://www.horizonwimba.com/

Impatica for PowerPoint allows instructors to deliver fully narrated and animated PowerPoint presentations to essentially any internet device without plug-ins and even at normal modem speeds. Impatica for PowerPoint simply converts the PowerPoint file into a compressed format that is optimized for streaming over the Internet. The Impatica file is typically 95% smaller than the PowerPoint HTML files. Company site: http://www.impatica.com/imp4ppt/

Camtasia Studio is a complete solution for quickly creating professional-looking videos of your PC desktop activity. The program allows you to record your desktop and create a full-motion video tutorial or presentation, in real-time, and publish it in the format of their choice. Company site: http://www.techsmith.com/products/studio/default.asp

Real Producer 10 provides encoding to convert a variety of media types into RealAudio and RealVideo formats for streaming on the Helix server. Company site: http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/

Cleaner XL allows you to compress video into a number of different formats.  Cleaner XL also allows users color correct, adjust size, or even remove noise from audio is essential. The program has drag and drop ease, enhanced performance, over 180 professional pre-set and customizable output profiles, and support for Windows Media 9, QuickTime 6, MPEG-4 and Kinoma. Company site: http://www4.discreet.com/cleanerxl/

 

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