Live Webinar - Fortify Your Institutional H1N1 Plan with Lecture Capture: Mediasite at Washington State University

Denver, Colo. (EDUCAUSE booth #443) - November 4, 2009 - As Washington State University's main campus was experiencing one of the largest early college outbreaks of the H1N1 flu virus, WSU Spokane was working on a pandemic and academic continuity plan that had lecture capture with Mediasite at its core.

Join Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, for a live webinar in which Saleh Elgiadi, Director of IT Services for WSU Spokane, will share his fundamental principles and practices included in the campus' comprehensive H1N1 and disaster recovery plans.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 10, 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Central
WHERE: To register for this complimentary webinar, visit www.sonicfoundry.com/register/h1n1

Elgiadi will cover how to:
• Minimize the impact of absences and closures through a combination of room-based course capture, videoconferencing, archived and pre-recorded lectures plus faculty recording remotely from home offices, all via Mediasite
• Use a centralized approach to recorder management that provides more flexibility to capture multiple rooms as schedules change in response to flu management
• Build a repository of online, on-demand educational materials to deliver to ill students in their homes as well as in case of mandated social distancing

Presenter:
Saleh Elgiadi is the director of information technology services, academic and research technologies at Washington State University in Spokane. He is responsible for the campus' Academic and Research computing, distance learning technologies, High Performance Computing, video and digital media production as well as strategic planning and policy development for those areas.

Elgiadi has over twenty years of experience working in higher education and has provided vision and leadership for a wide variety of successful information technology initiatives including an online employee training and development system, a course management system, High Definition videoconferencing, video-on-demand services, podcasting, and lecture capture and webcasting.

Elgiadi has a Bachelor in Computer Science and Mathematics from Eastern Washington University, and a Master in International Business Management from Whitworth University. He participates in professional organizations and has presented in local and national conferences.

Moderator:
Sean Brown, vice president of education, Sonic Foundry