Orientation+to+Elluminate

=**Orientation to Elluminate (now officially known as Blackboard Collaborate)**=

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The reader will notice below the process the group has gone through to move the project along and work on the original presentation for the asynchronous presentation.

The group decided that Elluminate would become the tool to be showcased for Assignment 3. The process began regarding the use of a power point presentation which would be presented in an Elluminate session and recorded to provide an orientation session for Elluminate. The group also discussed the possibility of using Camtasia to create a separate video which could be embedded in the wiki.

Power Point slide presentation to be recorded on Thursday night at 7? We may want to make the recorded presentation approximately 15 minutes in length max. If using a 15 minute time line, we can do one or more run throughs before recording the final product. This gives about 45 seconds to a minute for each tool - **David A:this could be recorded with Camtasia -- Maria and I have experience in this..so either...**
 * NOTE: The group may have to meet Wednesday evening on Skype if there are any questions about how to do what and the process of the presentation? ﻿Colleen - ** Micaela and I thought to meet tonight re: what to focus on for our page. Is this still the plan (see below).

**D Abma: I am comfortable with any of the below so I'll take what ever may be left.** These are the total number of slides listed below Put your name on a couple (that aren't already named. which you wish to discuss in the Elluminate session. > (Read slide text and/or discuss the slide, Do an exercise, and Comment on the exercise) 18. 18. Powepoint:
 * 1) 1. Welcome: Kevin
 * 2) 2. Group: Kevin
 * 3) 3. Project Development: Kevin
 * 4) 4. Wiki Tour – Home, References, short info on 4 types of tools: Doug ﻿ Colleen - was each group going to give a short run down on their page? (SEE BELOW)
 * 5) 5. Wiki Tour – Collab Table: David
 * 6) 6. Elluminate – The tool: (preamble presented on why decided upon):
 * 7) 7. Elluminate reasons:
 * 8) 8. Top Ten Tools:
 * 1) 9. Voice Communications:
 * 2) 10. Recording:
 * 3) 11. Surveying Polls:
 * 4) 12. Raising Hands:
 * 5) 13. Emoticons: Maria
 * 6) 14. Chat: Maria
 * 7) 15. Web Tour: (brief comments): Maria - ** David A: after describing this we could use this technology and review the collab table then...? **
 * 8) 16. Application Sharing:
 * 9) 17. Whiteboard:

Hi Colleen, I think the original idea was to talk about each sub group's research. Since Margo got back to us, I thought that the second part of the assignment was to produce an asynchronous presentation (I think we talked about using the wiki as the vehicle for this part of the assignment by putting a link in the Discussion Forum in Bb and responding to comments in Bb). The third part is a synchronous presentation (we chose Elluminate and that we were going to record the session using a power point presentation in it). I am thinking that, based on what she wants, we may want to just make mention of the research process of the sub groups and where people can find it as part of the asynchronous presentation and to focus mainly on the 10 main tools within Elluminate. Kevin and I talked about this yesterday and last night and if we made some assumptions, I apologize. I am trying to remember if we talked about the suggested length of the synchronous presentation in our last Skype meeting and I thought we had decided on approximately 15 minutes. A lot of folks are okay for 7 - 11 minutes before they get antsy. All of the instructional videos I do are anywhere from a half a minute to a minute and a half with the option to view one or all as part of a flash presentation. I don't think we need to go to that extent as we haven't the time to set all that up. If you guys feel we need to discuss this further, we may want to get on Skype tonight (say 7 PM) to hammer this out. I will repeat this in an email so everyone gets it even if they haven't been on this page. Let me know what you think.

PS. I will login to Skype at 7 PM tonight just to be available.

Doug