Fact or Fiction: Exposing the 10 Biggest Myths of Event Webcasting “No one will come.” “It’s a burden on presenters.” “It will end up on YouTube.” If you’ve considered putting your conference online, this probably sounds familiar. But is it true? Join us to separate event webcasting fact from fiction as Sonic Foundry's Cody Kleven and Justin Hartman dispel the ten biggest myths about taking your event online.

Best in Class: St. Georges University Students Share Their Strategies for Webcasting Success Join a panel of students and faculty from St. George’s University as they discuss how the next generation of students is taking webcasting beyond the classroom and using it as a competitive advantage both on and off campus.

Using Mediasite to Enhance Student Performance: Findings from Penn State Hershey Medical Center Join Dr. Russ Scaduto of Penn State Hershey Medical Center as he demonstrates how, in the span of one academic year, a leading academic health center built an educational-technology infrastructure around Mediasite that significantly impacted student learning.

4th Annual Rich Media Impact Awards Sonic Foundry created the awards to recognize excellence in the practical and creative integration of Mediasite in education, business, health and government. Members of the Mediasite user community nominated organizations that achieved measurable improvements in accessibility, cost savings, efficiency and productivity through rich media.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.