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James Estrin/The New York Times

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Upon completion of this session you will be

able to:

• Identify instructional possibilities of

Collaboarate -Synchronous tool.

• Utilize Collaborate to increase student

engagement with your content.

• Utilize Collaborate to create opportunities

for instructor or peer to peer feedback.

• Create and conduct a synchronous session

from your online course

• Identify tools and strategies to keep your

students engaged thought the session

• Record sessions for reviewing purposes

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Use Cases Virtual Classrooms

Instruction

• Distance Learning

• Professional

Development

• Blended learning

programs

•Lecture Capture

Help and Meetings

• Virtual office hours

• Team projects

• Ad hoc collaboration

• Mentoring & Tutoring

• Staff meetings &

networking

Webinars

• Remote guest lectures

• Conferences &

seminars

• Marketing & promotion

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Typical Use Cases

Informal 1:1

Student Services

Administrative and Team Meetings

Faculty Professional Development

Classroom

Lectures and 1-to-many Events

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Typical Use Cases in the Online

Classroom

Informal 1:1

Lesson Discussions Student’s Presentations

Classroom

Pre-Post Tests Office Hours Life Instruction

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Audio Setup

Using PC for Audio?

Configure Your PC Click the Microphone/Gears icon or

Go to: Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard

Using a Telephone?

Join via Teleconference Click Handset - Phone Number will be provided - follow

instructions - click “ok”

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Quick Orientation

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Use the Hand Raise button

to request a microphone to ask

a question or make a comment.

Questions and Comments

Use Chat to type

in your question

or comment for

everyone to see.

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Emoticons

Express Yourself!

Happy? Sad? Confused? Proud?

Thumbs Up?, Thumbs Down?, Go

Faster?, Go Slower?, Yes?, No?,

Need to Step Away?, Got a

Question?

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The User Interface

Audio/Video

Panel

Whiteboard

Whiteboard /

Drawing tool

palette

Participants

and session

interactions

Chat

Content

management

Basic tools

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Live Video

Up to six (6) people can share video simultaneously

Follow-the-speaker

Video window can be detached and made larger

Save a snapshot to the whiteboard

Virtually any USB video device can be can be used: web cams, document cameras, microscopes, Pen/tablets mouse devices, and USB AV converters

The current speaker

Other participant

thumbnails

The camera icon

shows when you’re

broadcasting

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Whiteboard

Multi-user, object oriented whiteboard

On-the-fly annotations and highlighting

Built-in drawing tools

Drag & Drop and Cut & Paste content to the whiteboard

Easily jump to another slide with the screen explorer

Convenient pre-made clip art included (maps, shapes, etc)

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Polling

Keeps the interactivity and engagement of participants On-the fly

Yes/No

True/False

Multiple Choice questions

See results at a

glance

Specific answers

by person

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Application Sharing

Show Your Application

Use Application Sharing to show

an application, document, etc., to

others in the room. They can

take control and work on it as a

shared document.

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Web Tour

Send students to pages for them to explore on their own

Or use “follow the presenter” to have a synchronized web surfing

Web

Tour URL box

Participants see the

web page within the

meeting console

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Multimedia

Show multimedia content:

Images

JPEG

GIF (animated too)

PNG

Video

Windows Media WMV

SWF files created by

Adobe ® Flash®

Apple ® QuickTime®

MPEG MP4

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Breakout Rooms

Unlimited number of rooms

Select or randomly assign users to rooms on the fly

Option to allow participants to self-distribute

Easily view activity

Easily move participants and content between rooms

Supports mixed audio

Save breakout content back to the main room

The participants

panel shows

breakout rooms and

who’s in them

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Sharing Files2

Send handouts, project files and assignments

Send while in session

Available in recordings

Any file type can be distributed

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Uncheck “Prompt Recipients”

when you upload the content

From the File Transfer Library,

select Prompt when you’re ready

to share the file

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Quiz Manager

Pre-made or On-the-fly

Use True/False, Multiple Choice, Short Answer (text)

Show/hide answers and results

Students “hand in” quizzes which locks the answers

Export results to spreadsheet

Use the forward and back arrows to see and answer all questions.

Then click “Hand In” when you’re finished.

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Tips & Common Support Links

First Time Users Guide

http://tinyurl.com/bbcollabWCFirstTimeUser

Configuration Test Room

http://tinyurl.com/bbcollabConfigurationRoom

Download most current Java version

http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Clear Java cache regularly

http://tinyurl.com/bbcollabClearJava

Most Common Issues

http://tinyurl.com/bbcollabCommonIssues

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http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Services/On-Demand-Learning-Center.aspx

http://tinyurl.com/BbCOnDemandLearning

• Participant and Moderator User Guides

• Quick Reference Guides

• Recorded tutorials

On Demand Learning

Center

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http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Resources/Webinars-and-

Demos/Events.aspx

Webinars & Live Demos

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Online Learning Processes

Plan! Web Conferencing Publish!

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Download Plan and Publish

Desktop Applications

http://www.elluminate.com/Other/Download_Plan!_

V2/?id=150

http://www.elluminate.com/Other/eLearning_Publis

h!/?id=357

Training Resources and Quick Reference Guides:

http://www.elluminate.com/Services/Training/Ellumi

nate_Plan!_and_Publish!/?id=421

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Session Planning

Offline, desktop

authoring

Create pre-packaged,

re-usable courses,

content, quizzes &

activities

Simple, automated

delivery

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Plan Tips & Tricks

Close the PowerPoint application

Each slide must have a unique title

No special characters in the slide titles

PPT will convert to a wbd file

Select and drag the wbd file to the Plan Outline

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Publish

Create High definition podcast, vodcast, or standalone recordings

Convert recordings to multiple formats

AVI, FLV, MP3, Standard MP4, HD MP4, OGG VORBIS, WAV, WMV

Create chat and closed captioning transcripts

Play later on any device

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Publish Tips & Tricks

If a recording is one hour, plan for an hour to

convert

Video will not be included in portable file

Unplugged style will give you the side bars & look

just like the interface

After the initial conversion, use the MRF file to save

time creating other portable file types

Do not use the URL recording link inside an

integration

Adjust browser settings to capture jnlp file

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Moodle Differences from Learn 9.1

Cannot schedule repeating sessions

Cannot adjust # of simultaneous talkers/webcams

Cannot invite external guests when scheduling

Branding not consistent (Elluminate Live & Collaborate)

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You can utilize the Groups

You can grade attendance