2012 EIT Allied Staff Forum

An introduction to cloud based tools used in teaching, learning and collaborating
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 * Date/Time: 29 September 8:30 - 10:00am
 * Venue: C215: The Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawkes Bay Taradale, Napier, New Zealand

This workshop will give you a hands on introduction to some cloud based tools0, some of which were covered by in a presentation to the full staff meeting earlier this year. A selection of the following tools will be covered (depending on time and what the participants want to explore)
 * Adobe Connect (allows web based whiteboards, web cams etc .. all through a web browser)
 * Twitter (what is it and why would you bother?)
 * Blogs (Wordpress, Blogger)
 * Wikis
 * Google ecosystem
 * Drive (particularly Google Documents and their collaboration features)
 * sites (Portfolios)
 * Blogger (and using on the run)

Twitterfeed

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Activity 1: Teaching over a distance: Video Conferencing v's Webinars (Adobe Connect)

 * 1) Log in to EITconnect.../virtualmv, use guest, enter your first name and proceed
 * 2) *Using technologies to allow students to participate in classes away from the campus
 * 3) **Video Conferencing - specalised rooms connected between Taradale and Gisborne
 * 4) **Web Conferencing - Using Adobe Connect to allow students to be taught through their web browsers.
 * 5) ***Teaching from your desk (through web cam)
 * 6) ***Geographically extended classrooms (face 2 face class plus students remote)
 * 7) Quick demo showing
 * 8) *Screen sharing/ Record session/ Putting hand up/ Document sharing/ Whiteboard sharing
 * 9) *While I'm demoing try...
 * 10) Chatting
 * 11) Add a hi to the chat room
 * 12) Make a comment
 * 13) reply to someone else's comment
 * 14) Put your hand up at some point I will promote you to presenter and put up a shared white board
 * 15) Add something to the shared white board


 * If you have a mobile device,
 * If an iPhone/iPad you can download the Adobe Connect App (for EIT staff use student@eit with your staff login)
 * If android ....

Activity 2: Cloud computing

 * 1) Introducing cloud based Word Processing
 * 2) Use link What I want to learn today Brainstorming and follow the instructions

Activity 5: Blogging

 * WordPress

Activity 6: Google ecosystem
I have created a special gmail account if you don't have one vmveit (pwd v~1## ) to play on
 * Drive | Blogger | Picasa (photos) | Sites | Maps
 * YouTube - Linking/ embedding

Other stuff

 * MOOC (Massive Online Courses)
 * Creating a web presence
 * Mobile Applications
 * email
 * YouTube mobile
 * Google goggles
 * Voice recognition (Siri)
 * Capturing images, videos to produce online portfolios
 * Skymap

Links

 * A really useful tool
 * Zoom-it ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434 267KB )
 * Digital Learning Technologies


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