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Web Presentation Services

The services offered by our Web Presentation team include:

  • Tegrity technical support, training, and equipment checkout and purchase
  • Wimba technical support and training
  • Accordent technical support and training
  • Podcast creation and delivery help for faculty
  • Individual technical support and consultation
Tegrity

Tegrity is a complete solution for multimedia in learning, enabling instructors to effortlessly create and deliver multimedia from inside or outside the classroom. Students benefit from the resulting browser-based lecture that is available on demand. Since 1999, faculty at Kansas State University has used Tegrity to create and archive lectures to help further student learning.

To create and archive lecture, faculty must use equipment such as Tegrity Cart, Tegrity portable tablet, wireless microphone, HiVid, Web camera, camcorder or document camera. If needed, faculty can checkout Tegrity equipment.

For more information about Tegrity, please see the WPS Support website.

Wimba

Wimba is a real-time collaboration tool so that groups can meet online for lectures, virtual office hours, review sessions, meetings, interviews, and more. It is available by accessing K-State Online or Axio. Horizon Wimba utilizes multi-way audio (VoIP) to send voice through the Internet instead of using standard phone lines. All students and instructors need is are speakers, a microphone and a solid Internet connection to communicate as if they were face to face. The audio is nearly instantaneous, regardless of location.

Some Features of Wimba include:

  • Content sharing (PowerPoint slides, Flash movies)
  • Text chat room
  • Closed-Captioning
  • Ability to restrict audio or chat participation
  • Interactive polls, quizzes and surveys
  • Ability to dismiss users
  • Screen sharing between instructor and user
  • Archives

Check out the Wimba Quick Reference Guide (PDF) for tips on getting started. Wimba technical support and training is available by contacting the Office of Mediated Education's web presentations services coordinator.

Accordent

Accordent is a complete classroom capture solution that is fully integrated into the room itself. The Accordent Capture Station seamlessly records and synchronizes audio, video and data output from any presentation device (notebook PC, document camera, smart board, etc.) and instantly turns it into an online rich media presentation. Students benefit from the web-based player with the instructor video and everything that the instructor showed on the computer. Accordent is great for showing software or creating any type of training to be captured for on demand playback. Please contact the Office of Mediated Education's web presentations services coordinator to make an appointment and for more information.

Podcast Creation and Delivery

A podcast is a digital media file that is pushed to end-users over the Internet so that they access the file on their computers or portable media players, like iPods. Many educators are using podcasts as a way to distribute lectures and other course work and information so that students can access and listen outside of the classroom. The WPS coordinator can help faculty create, edit, and distribute podcasts. Please contact the Office of Mediated Education's web presentations services coordinator to make an appointment and for more information.

Individual technical support and consultation

The Web Presentation Services Coordinator is available for one-on-one and group technical support, training, and consultation for Terity, Wimba, Podcast creation, as well as K-State Online and Axio Learning. Individuals and groups can come to the Office of Mediated Education or the WPS coordinator will meet you at your location. Please contact the Office of Mediated Education's web presentations services coordinator to make an appointment and for more information.

Bryan Vandiviere
Web Presentation Technology Coordinator
255 College Court Bldg.
Kansas State University
Manhattan KS 66506
(785) 532-2508