Mediasite has been a service offered on campus since 2009. This program allows for lectures to be recorded and posted on the SUNY New Paltz website for viewing. Mediasite has proven useful in the past few years as it has captured lectures for the annual EvoS Evolutionary Studies seminars, conferences in various departments from Asian Studies to Psychology, and other special series events, but can also be used in a classroom setting. This portable system not only records the speaker, but incorporates the slides they are presenting during their lecture.

After the event is captured, it can be edited or automatically uploaded and organized through the program. For individual course purposes, the lecture can be downloaded onto the computer, burned onto a disc, or uploaded directly to Blackboard. The video can then be stored and streamed by students or professors on their personal computers, smartphones, or tablets, and the content can easily be shared to other schools or institutions. Presentations can be edited after capturing to include supplemental graphs or images. The quality of the captured vi011deos are as vivid as sitting through the lecture, which is vital to classes that rely heavily on images, such as art or science courses. Digital audio recorders are also available for loan
to include the auditory component for the presentation.  

This useful resource can provide students and other educators the opportunity to access content easier and faster from virtually any device, and offer newer methods of studying. Important lectures can be documented or streamed, and students who missed the lecture will not lose out on the information. The IMS Center can provide digital video cameras, audio recorders, and the Mediasite system for these purposes, and can be requested through www.newpaltz.edu/ims, along with troubleshooting information. Presentations that have already been recorded can also be accessed on this site through the Mediasite catalog.