Streaming media is a technology for delivering many types of media - most often audio and video, via the Web. Many websites use this technology to provide media content to people visiting their sites because it is the most effective way to deliver it. A web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives in a media player, such as the free Real Player.

There are all sorts of uses for streaming media. An instructor can record powerpoint lectures or classroom video and provide links within their Blackboard courses to broaden their audience and allow students to review material; research faculty can prepare lectures or videos and provide links to content related to their projects and results; marketing and other administrative departments can provide audio / video content related to their departments’ services or promotional material; and much more.

OTM currently offers the capability to add audio and video to PowerPoint presentations and create lectures for the web. We work directly with University Media Services to also create professional quality videos and digitize audio / video segments from source material for use in classrooms and distance education.