http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:40:39 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 13:40:39 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=407452 Like many existing lecture-capture solutions today, CourseCast captures video-based instructional content, automatically streams it over the Internet and makes it available for students and lecturers alike in all of the popular formats. That is where the similarities end. Panopto's flagship product, CourseCast, is a second generation platform whose design goal was to simplify and make more affordable the promise of education on demand. CourseCast integrates with your existing infrastructure, dramatically reducing your up-front investment in equipment. CourseCast ensures that every stakeholder's process is simplified, not made more complex. This means making it blindingly simple for instructors to teach from their own equipment, for videographers to easily manage their workflow, for students to easily access superior quality recordings in any manner they choose and for administrators to be able to scale their use of the system without paying exorbitant costs in the process.Free option for educational institutions through Socrates http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=657791 Kickstarter is an Online funding platform for creative projects in Performing Arts, Business, Education, Film Media, Technology, Publishing, and other areas. Every project creator sets their Online project's funding goal and deadline. If the project meets its funding goal "all backers/supporters of the project will have their credit card donation charged. If the funding goal for the project falls short by the deadline no backer is charged. Successful funded projects create and give their backers a reward for their support. Since April 2009, 1.8 million people have made (200million + U.S. Dollars) in pledges to support projects shown Online and over 20,000 projects have been successful in reaching their funding goal. Check out today's projects that are seeking funding.