LECTURNITY at School

Saarbruecken/Sevenoaks, January 2010 – LECTURNITY, the successful recording tool from IMC AG, has gained many supporters in companies and universities since its successful reorientation (see PR of 30th July 2009). Now, a growing number of teachers are discovering the authoring software for use in school lessons. Due to this demand, IMC AG is now offering “LECTURNITY School” with all functions at the reduced price of only 49 euros. A new feature will enable you to start using the authoring software right away: With just a few clicks, users can upload their saved documents directly to the video portal YouTube. Nowadays pupils and trainees, who already use digital media in their leisure time, also expect an equally interactive learning environment during their school lessons. Authoring software such as LECTURNITY is the ideal medium for teachers to simply and cost-effectively prepare learning content in a multimedia format. Many schools already have learning management systems, although others have only limited options for making LECTURNITY recordings accessible. Ultimately, however, the final step of using the software with the pupils is decisive. LECTURNITY meets YouTube IMC has now removed this particular phenomenon at schools and has integrated an attractive additional application into its recording tool, which will also inspire business and university users. From now on, LECTURNITY can also be used to upload recorded presentations to YouTube, where they can be viewed by the respective target group. According to information provided by YouTube, around 100 million people around the world now actively use the platform and the available videos are downloaded about 2.5 billion times every month. “Moving images are very popular and one of the major trends in the Web 2.0”, explains IMC director Dr. Wolfgang Kraemer. “LECTURNITY’s strength is the fact that it enables people to experience live presentations over and over again and is therefore predestined for use with video portals. The YouTube upload feature demonstrates the capabilities of our authoring software in social media.” LECTURNITY - the fine art of recording The uploaded LECTURNITY recordings can also be easily played back on mobile end devices such as an iPod or iPhone - anywhere and at any time, which employees working away from the office particularly appreciate. LECTURNITY helps teachers to integrate pedagogical media approaches into lessons, for instance by working together with interactive whiteboards. Previously, the whiteboard images were saved and sent to pupils by email for review, which required a lot of effort. Using LECTURNITY School, teachers can now collect the various data streams together into one recording and make this available to everyone on YouTube online significantly more quickly and contemporaneously.  LECTURNITY School can be ordered online at http://www.lecturnity.co.uk. From now, IMC will also be providing its own micro site http://school.lecturnity.co.uk where users can access valuable tips and tricks, reference projects, a video tutorial portal and extensive subject literature.