Attend the Community Conference 2009!

On June 4 and 5, 2009, the Echo360 community will gather for the first time as a users group in the United States.  Echo360 will host its first Community Conference 2009, near its headquarters in Lansdowne, Virginia.  The two-day conference agenda includes best practices, networking and education shared by leading academics and technology professionals involved in lecture capture at their institution.

The call for speakers for this conference is now open, and submissions can be made at http://www.echo360.com/uc09/speakers.html.

For more information about the Community Conference 2009, or to register for the conference, visit http://www.echo360.com/uc09/index.html.

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Assistive Technologies Make the Grade

Kristin Mulrooney, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Gallaudet University, made a keen observation one recent semester – students with access to class lecture recordings seemed to fair better in a course than students without access to class lecture recordings.  Dr. Mulrooney taught the same linguistics class in two different classrooms.  One classroom was equipped to record lectures using Echo360, and the other was not.  After an informal study, Dr. Mulrooney noticed that the average grade of students in the class with lecture capture was a full grade higher than the students in the other classroom.  

To learn more about how Echo360 can help your learning initiatives, including Section 508 compliance, watch the seminar on Increasing Access with Assistive Technologies.