Where’d All The Money Go? Joe Way, PhD, CTS So let’s all be honest, since the start of the pandemic, how many of us in higher education can say we know exactly what our budgets are and where they stand at this very moment? At the same time, our institutions have implemented spending freezes, they... Read More
In this episode, Joe reads an open letter penned to the AV industry, reflecting on the experience of receiving from his fire. There is no way to ever express the totality of his gratitude. This is the first attempt. Read and download a copy of the “Open Letter.” Connect with Joe on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,... Read More
The current trend in higher education AV departments is to become an In-House Integrator, but Yavapai College has been doing everyone in-house for years. Ryan Gray, Technical Integration Manager, joins the show to discuss the similarities and differences in serving students and faculty at the community college level, as well as the advantages of having... Read More
The Higher Ed AV podcast was created as a resource for sharing information and building community. For Andrew Potter, Technical Director at Prairie College in Canada, that was exactly the case. Andrew shares his story from discovering the Church Tech Weekly podcast while serving in church tech and hearing Joe Way on as a guest... Read More
Today, we get a return visit from Mike Pedersen, Audiovisual Experience Manager at Iowa State University, and this month’s Tech Manager Spotlight, Presented by Sennheiser. We discuss how his role at Iowa State has developed in the two years he’s been on staff, his well-deserved AVNation AV Professional of the Year nomination, HETMA Conference, the... Read More
AV Superfriends: On Topic Summer Planning… Classrooms of the Future? It’s January, so let’s plan for summer! Chris is really, really upset with “Classrooms of the Future” (but not necessarily for the reasons you think) and gives them both barrels. Do you have a Classroom of the Future? Isn’t it just the bee’s knees? Then,... Read More
Dante & Your Campus AV System: For educators: using Dante as part of an AV-over-IP strategy makes it easy to support remote and online learning as part of the response to the global pandemic. Using networks to transport both live and recording educational content provides seamless integration with lecture capture systems and allows content to be... Read More
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Accessible Summer Updates Josh Kaufman, M.Ed It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, I don’t mean the holidays, I mean the season where we look to the warmer times and plan for our summer overhauls. And that means planning for what we’re going to add. Of course, this year is very different and... Read More
Don’t tell me this is all for nothing? An up-and-coming Irish songwriter, Dermot Kennedy has a song called “outnumbered” where it begins with the line “Don’t tell me this is all for nothing” and it really echoes a message of anxiety from 2020. What the future holds as we enter into 2021 with the first... Read More