Tag Archives: Vidyo

The next Green generation

By Mike Curtis on 29 Nov 2011 – 10:03 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

A community partnership between Science in Society at Northwestern University, Siemens and William F. Gurrie Middle School (GMS, LaGrange IL) is helping develop the next generation of leaders in energy sustainability. Acting as mentors, students at Northwestern, lead by Michael Kennedy, Director of Science in Society, collaborate with a group of students, the Gurrie Green [...]

NUIT Desktop Videoconferencing upgrade successful: Now you can go Mobile!

By Mike Curtis on 18 Aug 2011 – 12:23 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

On August 13th, we upgraded the NUIT Desktop Videoconference service to version 2.1.  The upgrade corrected and enabled SSL certification on all of the portals using a Wildcard certificate.  An additional set of features were released, such as the support for Replay – the recording and webcasting component of the service – and the mobile [...]

Educause 2010 Conference Presentation

By Mike Curtis on 15 Oct 2010 – 11:00 am
Location: (33° 50' 7"N x 118° 5' 7"W)

I presented at the EDUCAUSE 2010 conference this week in Anaheim. Educause is the largest organization focused on education, pedagogy, identifying the needs of tomorrow’s students and the technology needed to support them. My presentation, Overcoming Barriers to Video Enabled Collaboration Communities in Education, was presented to a half-filled room full of university executive IT [...]

Vidyo + uStream + iPad = Awesome!

By NUAMPS on 30 Apr 2010 – 2:06 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

We have successfully transmitted a Vidyo video conference to an iPad, iPhone and multiple computers at the same time. I will do my best to walk you through the basic setup: From my MacBook Pro we were running the Northwestern University Vidyo instance.  The Vidyo instance was using a Logitech USB webcam and the Phoenix [...]

Desktop Videoconferencing comes to Northwestern

By Mike Curtis on 8 Apr 2010 – 4:35 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

On April 6, 2010, NUIT announced, to the entire Northwestern Community, that a cross platform videoconferencing service, which delivers high quality audio, video and data sharing to individual desktops, is available for use. To my knowledge, this is a first for a university to extend videoconferencing capabilities beyond the fixed room-based conference rooms or classrooms, [...]

Microscopes and Vidyo

By NUAMPS on 25 Jan 2010 – 3:59 pm
Location: (41° 53' 42"N x 88° 22' 48"W)

Today Mike, Zoran and I tested  Vidyo (our new video conferencing software) for streaming live images from a Microscope.  The Woodruff Lab is looking at adding a new microscope to their set of tools.  The goal is to be able to share the images coming from the microscope in real time to another location at [...]

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