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Penn State College of Medicine
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The Program This site was designed to function as the host site to support the Mediasite Pilot Program Project that was conducted during August, 2004. This program represented the joint efforts of the Information Technology Department, the Department of Continuing Education, the Office of Professional Development and the organizers of several Hershey Medical Center Residency Programs. This program was designed to fully evaluate the Mediasite product of Sonic Foundry, Inc. and to learn first-hand how this technology may be used in our education programs. Members of the core team that lead this project were Russell Scaduto, Ph.D., William Weiss, Ph.D., Luanne Thorndyke, M.D. and Tracy Allgier-Baker.
The Presentations This Pilot Program consists of six Grand Rounds sessions and Seminars that will took place during the month of August, 2004. More than likely, you are visiting this site because you have been asked to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of this multimedia technology. Several individuals have been recruited to view one or more of these presentations. This evaluation program has concluded and we are now using this technology to record and deliver presentations to our educational community. Our current Mediasite console can be viewed from this site: The Evaluations At the conclusion of each viewing session, viewers were asked to complete a brief questionnaire. A link was provided from the web viewer to an on-line evaluation form. We received responses from 35 viewers. The Technology Mediasite Live is a multimedia education tool developed by Sonic Foundry. The Mediasite Live system allows one to stream a live presentation to viewers having Internet access and to archive these presentations for later review. The Requirements The Mediasite server streams video and audio to your web browser using Microsoft's streaming media technology. Presentations can be viewed using Internet Explorer (IE 5.0 or newer) running on a PC using a 9x version of the Windows operating system (Win 95, 98, ME, 2000 or XP). Presentations will run best if you have the latest version of the Windows Media Player installed on your PC, although older versions (V 6.4 or newer) will also work. If you are using an older version of the Windows Media Player, however, you will still need the latest codec (v 9) to hear the audio portion of the presentation. If you can see the slides and the video portion of the presentation, but you cannot hear the audio, it is likely that you must upgrade your codec. If you are logged into your computer with administrative privileges, you should automatically receive a prompt to download this codec when the presentation starts (unless you disabled this feature). If you are not logged in with administrative privileges, you will receive either an "Access Denied" or a "You do not have sufficient privileges..." error message. When logged in to your computer with administrative privileges, you can either download the newest Microsoft Media Player from the Microsoft Media Player website or upgrade your current Media Player codec from the Microsoft Media Player Codec website. If you plan to watch a presentation using a Macintosh computer, it can be viewed using the last release of Internet Explorer (V 5.2.3) on a Mac running OS X. Your Mac should also have the Windows Media Player installed (V 9). You can download the Microsoft Media Player from the Microsoft Media Player website. If you install the Windows Media Player on your Mac OS X computer, you will need to restart IE for this to work properly. The presentations cannot be viewed using Mac OS 9 since it does not support version 9 of the Windows Media Player. Presentations cannot be viewed using the Safari web browser on a Mac. Thanks to my Mac friends that conducted these tests!
The Team Many people where involved in organizing this program, and it could not have been accomplished without their assistance. I have listed their names on this site, if you are interested in seeing who contributed. Please direct any questions or comments to me, Russ Scaduto. Thanks for participating! |