Capitalizing on the Web Conferencing Craze in Education

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Capitalizing on the Web Conferencing Craze in
Education

• Shawn Allenby
• ECOO
• Nov. 8th, 2007

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About Me

• I can be found on
• www.commun-it.org/community/sallenby

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Activity

• With a partner, position yourselves so one person
  is facing the screen and one person is facing the
  back of the room
• Sit back to back
• The person facing the screen will be describing
  what the next image looks like
• The person facing away from the screen can not
  speak
• The person facing away from the screen needs a
  pencil/pen and paper

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Everyone Turn around

• Did you get the image correct?
• Was there some surprises that you did not
  visualize?
• What does this have to do with web conferencing?

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Web Conferencing Definition
Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings
or presentations over the Internet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web conferencing
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Web conferencingwhats out there
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Uses for web conferencing

• Web conferencing can be used for may different
  applications
• Dont think that the tool need be used only what
  it was designed for think through the box

Meetings
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Meetings
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Planning Meetings
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Guest Speakers
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Professional Development
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Promotion
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Guest Speaker Broadcast or Recordings
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Share Performances
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Guest Speaker Presentations
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Connecting Schools
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Student to Student
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The Details

• Each school board has been allocated one license
  of Connect server with 40 concurrent users
  (OSAPAC)
• 1 meeting of 40
• 20 meetings of 2 concurrently
• Includes 3 licenses of Presenter
• Includes support (1 year) for 4 contacts
• Adobe recommends
• dedicated server - Dual Xeon, 3GHz - 4GB RAM -
  100 GB Hard Drive
• Do it oncecontent is hard to move!

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Optimizing Connectlessons we have learned

• Start up page
• Login early pagework out the kinks
• Tech check slide
• Dsl/lan settings
• Voice issues/Video issues (dv support)
• Two presenters
• Use flash videos
• Provide a web page for the recording link, then
  can include instructions

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Provide Users with a Webpage

• Can link to meeting there
• Include instructions how to login
• Have the meeting pre-set up with an audio file
• Provide users viewing the recorded meeting the
  same webpage
• Include instructions how to view the recording

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The Future
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Contact me

• shawn.allenby_at_ocdsb.ca
• www.commun-it.org/community/sallenby
• TD16 Capitalizing on the Web Conferencing Craze
  in Education-Commun-it.org
• www.chf-partners.ca/medialiteracy