--- Forwarded Message from Thomas Plagwitz <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: Thomas Plagwitz <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:06:05 -0500 >Subject: RE: #9962 Camera advice? >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> Hi, For the amount you quote, I doubt that it is worth checking whether any of the lecture capturing systems out there can work with your class setup. But if you can fit your class around a conference table, maybe you could look into formerly Microsoft Roundtable, now Polycom CX5000. This technology recalculates a 360 degree video angle into a single wide-screen picture. If I remember correctly, it also switches on one of multiple directional microphones to the direction of the active speaker. This could be beneficial, since multiple microphones mixed down, because of the slightly different travel times of the sound, can easily degrade the overall sound quality. Thanks, Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas Plagwitz |Director, Language Resource Center UNC Charlotte | Dept. of Languages and Culture Studies 9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223 Phone: 704-687-8762 | Fax: 704-687-3496 http://plagwitz.org | http://lrc.uncc.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of any of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 704-687-8762. Thank you. http://www.publicrelations.uncc.edu/logo/e-standards.html *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technology (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Anthony Helm, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************