what kind of research institute? What kinds of things are produced there (books? presentations?)

A small one, so they may write the books, but a publishing house will publish them. They're also linked and are working with the university, so they can use certain services from there.

They have several media projects per year, few conventions, a media library they want online access to and so on. Generally, the type of things that are being produced is determined by the PhD students. They want to be prepared and plan for the future, so to speak.

I can't help with video editing software or hardware recommendations.

Do you all need a portable projector to link to a computer for presentations? What about a drobo (or something like this) to store lots of media?

Can the drobo (or something like this) be accessed from other computers at any given time, password-protected? I'm thinking of remote access to few people, but they have to be protected.

Smart board, or at least a LCD projector hooked up to the computer and a document camera, like this: [link]

Anything like a Blackboard system for making posts, digital drop boxes, making wikis for classes, making podcasts of lectures.

Edutopia.com is focused on K-12 classrooms, BUT they have fab articles on integrating tech in the classroom that can easily be applied to college settings.

ETA: Sorry. It's edutopia.ORG

Thank you, Erin!

You need to send this info to Wired, Engadget, or Gizmodo. They probably would love to check this out.

You think? I just can't figure out why no one else apparently seems to be experiencing this problem.

If you look at the full headers of your messages, you can track your email's progress by looking at the "Received:" headers. You should be able to pinpoint where the message is getting delayed.

Already did that, Tom. I know exactly where it's been getting delayed. Ever since they switched to SmartZone for their mail, there's a delay between the SmartZone box and the actual Comcast mail servers. For instance, look at this recent LJ comment notification:

Received: from imta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (LHLO

imta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.30.13) by

sz0121.ev.mail.comcast.net with LMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:13:35 +0000 (UTC)

Received: from livejournal.com ([208.93.0.128])

by imta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast

id HsUR1f03T2li9uQ01sUSLg; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:28:26 +0000

Forty-five fucking minutes between the time Comcast received my e-mail and the time they delivered it to my inbox. I've provided this header information over and over to Comcast tech support and they don't even acknowledge that anything is going wrong. One woman actually told me that oh, it's natural for there to be a delay like that.

Drobo FS is designed to be accessed by multiple users at once (be a network server) and to be accessed remotely.

Also for academics I might look into good source citation/notetaking software. If you are writing with a lot of citations having them in a database makes your life easier. Gotchas to watch out for - make sure output styles are customizable. Wont make specific recs because you need Hebrew and while most have Hebrew modules don't know which have Hebrew modules that suck.

Typo, that idea of source citation ROCKS. Can you recommend on an English/German one, so I'll be able to compare it to other versions? (and oh, are you talking about something like Mendeley?)

And, humm. Is there a Mendeley for books? Because the institute's library needs reorganization...