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
Summer Upgrade – Security Audit By the time you read this, our winter projects are wrapping up and the start of the Spring term is right around the corner. One might think this would be a great time to take a break, but we work in higher education. Us higher education tech managers know that... Read More
Summer Plan Startup Steve Gibbs Jr It is supposed to snow 8-12 inches here in our part of Virginia this week so it is crazy to be thinking about summer already, but it is definitely around the corner. January is a time for budgets and planning so that is what we will be doing here... Read More
“What is the one thing you’re focusing on nowfor summer pre-planning?” Craig Shibley California Baptist University Removing all “band-aids.” We got thrust into Fall that not all solutions were permanent. Spring gave more time to plan, but in summer I want to remove all planned temporary solutions. As well as customizing technology for different schools/pedagogies.... Read More
A Day in the Life of Mike Pedersen 1. Thank you for joining me for this month’s New Year’s edition of the “Tech Manager Spotlight.” Start by telling us a little about what you do and a little about your background. Happy New Year! Thank you so much for choosing me for your Tech Manager... Read More
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