February 3rd, 2010 @ admin // No Comments
The information gathered from polling those that attend your online meetings is a valuable way to ascertain and evaluate the quality of your presentation or indeed the information retained by your students. Polls call be set up before your meeting or even on the fly and activated at any time during your meeting. You can also set up as many polls as you require.
January 28th, 2010 @ admin // One Comment
Shiv Singh (Author of Social media for Dummies) gives his keynote presentation at the recent launch of Seesmic Look. Well worth watching if you have an interest in Social media.
December 8th, 2009 @ admin // No Comments
A Piece from InsideView
This academic semester, I’m bringing founders, promoters, directors and effective social media communicators into my Social Media classroom and letting them explain how they frame their online business dealings with a personal dimension. We will record and share most of those guest appearances through clips recorded through Online Meeting Rooms. Those success stories reveal honesty, passion and commitment to the extended online communities that I’ve used to good effect since 2004. In 2010, my students will have stories >> read the full post
A Piece from the Anseo Blog.
After a couple of months of trying, I finally found a school willing to try out videoconferencing with me. Using Online Meeting Rooms, a brilliant online package from http://www.onlinemeetingrooms.com, my school, Carlow Educate Together hooked up with the Athy Model School, 20km down the road for a Christmas Carol sing-off.
Each school sang two Christmas carols to each other. Our school were treated to two popular Church of Ireland carols and we sang “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” and “Ceallóga Sneachta ag Titim”. The kids were really enthusiastic and clapped and cheered each rendition. Read the rest of the post.
A Piece from the IIA
Our white papers are now coming close to publication. We intend to widen the circle of collaboration and with this in mind we plan to publish the documents (via the wiki) in draft format. We will then invite people to review and post comments directly to the wiki. We also intend to host a review session for each document, online of course, using the services offered by OnlineMeetingRooms.com. I’m personally very excited about this as it provides the opportunity to gather the expertise from practitioners and interested business professionals in a constructive and engaging manner. Read the full post.
Using Firewire DV and onlinemeetingrooms.com
Getting the most out of desktop web and video conferencing through onlinemeetingrooms.com can be as simple as taking an old DV camera and porting it through your firewire option. In most cases webcams suffice but if you want that extra clarity and powerful zoom Onlinemeetingrooms.com supports DV along with high resolution bandwidth server side. Thanks to Bernie Goldbach for the use of his video.
So many business professionals rely on PowerPoint to get their message across to an audience. As previously demonstrated the New .FLVplayer allows you to stream a flash video into your meeting. I use a number of different tools when it comes to online meetings. One I particularly like is Camtasia 6 (which is Now also available for MAC) from Techsmith.com. (Download for PC here) Camtasia is highly recommended if you are involved with making tutorials, streaming presentations from services like Screencast , if you like slideshare or you’re involved with coaching and training. For the purposes of this demonstration I have borrowed an excellent PowerPoint from Mr. Bernard Goldbach A senior multimedia lecturer inTippinst.ie .What I have done is simple, I have recorded the PowerPoint (quickly, for the purposes of the tutorial) in Camtasia, rendered the video out in .flv format and hosted it on another great service, my dropbox. Then I’ve called the public URL (you can see the link in the image) and posted the URL in the .flv player. Notice too that you can allow users to scrub the play head, this means users can play, pause or “scrub” to the slide they want to focus on. This gives the viewer control over the pace of the presentation. You can also switch your guests video streams off during the video presentation. This can be a good idea sometimes when trying to reduce possible distraction from the main presentation video you want your guests to see.
VLE, Whiteboards, video conferencing and budgets.
Computers in schools from what I have seen, and agree with the author have been in place but rarely used. I have often discussed with Bernie Goldbach the need to connect Third levels to second levels in some form or fashion using onlinemeetingrooms.com We have done it before with guest speakers at Tipperary Institute and Principles of other Schools, in this case Daithi O Muruchu. Daithi was unable to attend the conference, he was streaming to the conference from another http://www.gaelscoil.com/in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick. http://www.anseo.net/?p=1538
This is an example of how the principle of a first level school is able to get involved with a third level hosted conference. Whiteboards connected to a PC could give a valuable window into any third level or any School for that matter. As the Anseo piece goes on to say Schools can find the budgets for the whiteboard. If the school also has a broadband connection education could change significantly in Ireland with just a few simple connections. Teachers and lecturers could work with different classes in a simultaneous, sychronis way… Students, the digital generation are ready for this type of interaction, specialist teachers could extented their skill sets to class rooms throughout the country as well as to remote schools or desktops at home. Training is of course the key, the complexity of any “solution”, platform, VLE call what you like is the barrier to entry. Streaming Video, screen sharing and whiteboarding are the future, if so, many schools have them they are one step away from the digital classroom.
