Capture technologies referred to here focus on the capture of audio and video, as well as computer screen interactions that accompany presentations and training sessions.  This initiative can be seen as closely related to the mobile technologies initiative since many mobile devices such as iPods can be used for capture purposes. 

The ability to digitally capture audio and video has greatly streamlined the workflow involved with making such captured material available for sharing and publication to the web.  Lectures, presentations, workshops, meetings are all candidates for capture.  Some captured material may simply be archived and never made available for wider distribution.  Other captured material may be edited and refined for publication. 

A capture technologies initiative could seek to disseminate methods for capturing audio, video and computer screen interactions, as well as methods for editing, cataloguing and sharing this material.  Such an initiative could engage the college community in a discussion of the implications of capture technologies, such as:

• When and where their use is appropriate
• How to obtain permission to capture events and the expressions of others
• How to credit those whose expressions have been captured
• How to clarify the degree of editing that has been done to captured material
• How individuals can review what has been captured of themselves as a basis for improving their own teaching, learning and research.
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