Technology

Being in the field of educational technology obviously involves having to work with various hardware and software. Some of the technology available in the TIE lab for research are as follows:

Hardware

Polycom Accordent Media Management System (enterprise-level media management portal)

Polycom Accordent HD Capture Station

Polycom 9004 8-way 8mbps video conferencing codec

Polycom 8000 4-way 4mbps video conferencing codec

Polycom 4000 4-way 4mbps video conferencing codec

Polycom RSS 2000 recording/streaming server (capable of recording people and content of up to 700 hours)

Polycom Hardware Bridge

Polycom PVX desktop-to-codec software

Elluminate synchronous communication

Three Mobile 30-unit carts - with PC and tablet sets

Smart technologies (5 SMARTboards, Bridgit software, classroom Synch software, Student Response system, Wireless slate, Document Camera, etc.)

6 Windows research workstations

digital recorder/transcriber

digital camera

multi-card reader

multipurpose printer

in-lab telephone/fax/microwave/fridge/kettle - most important! :)

Multimedia/Graphics Software

Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Flash

Adobe Illustrator

Camtasia Studio (Camtasia & SnagIt)

Research and Statistical Software

SPSS Statistical Package

NVivo Qualitative Software

Learning Support Systems Software

We have access to:

Moodle

Elluminate

Video Editing

Adobe Premiere Pro


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