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Technology Class Recordings Go State-of-the-Art ubiquity, immediacy, and ease of use, says David Feeney, director of digital education at the Fox School. Apreso can record not only video and audio, but also every presentation on the laptop, every keystroke and penstroke on a tablet PC, and every piece of vi- sual material. In addition, students can view that captured content from theWeb mere seconds after they leave the class. The software works essentially un- Move over VCR. Make room for the Apreso Classroom, a new technology re- cently pilot tested and adopted at Temple University's Fox School of Business andManagement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Devel- oped by Anystream, a Virginia-based software company, Apreso represents the latest generation of classroom content capturing software. The advantages of Apreso are its seen in the classroom and requires minimal instruction to use, Feeney adds. "It is essentially 'task-free,'" he says. "Faculty and students can be oriented in less than five minutes, and then every class meeting can be successfully captured with no change in classroom routine." During the 2004 summer session, Undergraduate business student Tamika Ingram shows an Apreso Classroom capture on her laptop. Behind her, David Feeney, director of digital education, stands outside the classroom where the recorded lecture is in progress. more than 2,200 minutes of content from the Fox School's undergradu- ate, graduate, and executiveMBA courses were recorded per week. During its original pilot phase, five faculty members used the technol- ogy; this fall, 21 will be taking advan- tage of its benefits. Faculty are also using the technology to record pre- sentations for students to view before class, as well as post-lecture presenta- tions that go more deeply into cer- tain facets of the material afterward. 46 BizEd NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2004 ing into class and presenting their knowledge and experience to stu- dents, but all of that accumulated knowledge is lost when class is over," says John DeAngelo, associate dean for information technology at the Fox School. The Apreso Classroom allows faculty greater flexibility in presenting material, he adds, and turing 3,100 minutes of classroom audio and visuals per week, making them instantly viewable via anyWeb browser," says Feeney. "In addition, Fox faculty, staff, and students are using the rooms as studios when classes are out of session." In addi- tion to the two capture rooms at Fox, three others are available in other areas of the university. "Faculty are accustomed to com- "Our two 'capture rooms' are cap- gives students the ability to replay and revisit that classroom experience as many times as they need. Fox School administrators also plan to use the Apreso technology to create integrated coursework for theMBA program in 2005. New Resource for Job Seekers With online career tools becoming a bigger part of the business school gradu- ate's job hunt, a management con- sultancy firm based in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, recently launched a new online job resource to add to its arsenal. EliteGraduateJobs, a com- pany specializing in the placement of recently degreed graduate and undergraduate students, now offers