Tegrity (http://www.tegrity.com) Ok, so I can see lots of possibilities here, especially for distance learning applications, but I am very troubled by Tegrity's repeated tag line, "automatically capture, store, and index every class" (with the emphasis on "every").  Can you say "Big Brother"?  While I certainly want to make content available to students outside of class time, and I'm not one of those nay-sayers who is sure that this will keep students from attending class (well, at any rate, not if I'm offering anything of value face-to-face, which I think I do), but I wonder what effect something like this could have on academic freedom.  That is, will I need constantly to be aware that whatever I say in the classroom will be recorded, stored, and possibly viewed by those who would twist my words?  Hmmm, anyway, I wish an application such as this had been available in the "dark ages" when I went to school and attended all those auditorium lecture classes, but I have to say that I thinkk the act of taking notes and then typing them (on an old manual typewriter, if you can believe it!) actually aided in learning and retention, if only because I was anal enough to try to make sense of my notes while I was typing them (though it's true that I never went back to the notes to study, but that's another story). [Posted 2 March 2009].