IPR, IES/NCER- letters explained…

                    We have entered the home stretch on video production of our big summer project, the capture, edit and web presentation of the two week Institute of Education Sciences (IES)/ National Center for Education Research (NCER) Summer Research Training Institute hosted by Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research (IPR).  If number of acronyms is any measure of importance, this is certainly a high-level event.  We are set up to capture video of the sessions, and Wallace and Ostertag implemented a nifty slide capture device which will enable us to sync all Power Point presentations with near exact precision in the final web viewer, adjacent to closed-captioned video windows of the presenters.  Our editors are catching video from the lectures by the hour, and assembling edits round the clock.  All systems are go, and we have already completed ten full lecture programs from last week alone out of a final expected program count of fifteen sessions.