Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Using Prezi for Education – everyone is welcome. Please disseminate widely.

Join us to learn about Prezi: a free, user-friendly, zoom-based presentation tool that is a great alternative to PowerPoint.

Thursday, June 30th, 2 pm Pacific

Presented by:
Suzanne Chandler, Whatcom Community College
Ann Garnsey-Harter, Shoreline Community College

Where: Elluminate (click link below and type in your name):

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Facilitating Student Learning with Virtual Museums Presentation, Thursday, 1 PM

Tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific Adam Attwood, an instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, will give a presentation with the following description:
This Webinar focuses on how virtual museums may be utilized in the K-12 and college classroom. Learners explore a functional virtual museum (Versailles, France, via Google Art Project) and a prototype online learning space (OLS) with an embedded virtual museum widget. Assignment ideas mapped to virtual museums are also explored for outcomes-based assessment.

Virtual Museums in Education

Virtual Museums in Education
When: Thu, June 23, 1pm - 2pm PDT
Where: Elluminate (click link or go to session access & recording page)

Adam Attwood, an instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, will give a presentation with the following description: "This Webinar focuses on how virtual museums may be utilized in the K-12 and college classroom. Learners explore a functional virtual museum (Versailles, France, via Google Art Project) and a prototype online learning space (OLS) with an embedded virtual museum widget. Assignment ideas mapped to virtual museums are also explored for outcomes-based assessment."

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Beyond the Basics - Using Tegrity and Elluminate

What: Live presentation by Christopher Soran of Tacoma Community College
When: Thu, June 16, 2pm – 3pm
Where: Right Here (click on login tab above)

Description from Christopher,
"Have you just started using Elluminate or Tegrity?  Or maybe you’ve been using them for a while, but haven’t yet taken advantage of all of their features.  Come learn a few advanced features in Tegrity such as live webcasting, enabling student presentations for online courses, drawing on the screen while recording, switching to full screen web cam mid-recording, and accessing your recordings from mobile devices.  We’ll also cover features in Collaborate(formerly Elluminate) such as how to make participants moderators, using the different poll types, publishing poll results to the whiteboard, sharing applications, and how to have 6 webcams displaying simultaneously."

Monday, June 6, 2011

Google Apps for Education – free office tools, email, sites, phone, and much more

Google Apps for Education – free office tools, email, sites, phone, and much more
Wednesday, June 8th, 2 pm - 3pm

Ask questions, join the conversation, or just listen in!

Presented by Ann Garnsey-Harter of Shoreline Community College and Tom Caswell of the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges.

Just click on the Elluminate link below to attend and then enter your name:
http://goo.gl/JpmfU

If you miss a session, the recording will be available here: http://goo.gl/wi2Ab

If you have suggestions for how to improve the format of these sessions or a suggestion for a future topic, please fill in this form:
http://goo.gl/i6OGF

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Adding Captions to Tegrity

While preparing for the captioning presentation today, I couldn't find a step-by-step video that showed how to add captions to a Tegrity recording so I created this one.  Please leave any comments or criticism here or on YouTube:

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Closed Captioning Workshop

Thursday, June 2nd, at 2 PM Pacific, Tom Caswell and Scott Dennis will host a presentation and workshop on adding closed captioning to Tegrity and YouTube video via Elluminate.  Attendees will see step-by-step demonstrations, and receive help documentation.  As always, participants will be welcome to ask questions and share their own experiences.  The session will be recorded.  To access the session, please click on the “Live Session Access & Recordings” tab above.