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2014_tutorials

Page history last edited by Vance Stevens 6 years, 3 months ago

 

 

Tutorials referred to in

Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments

 

If you can't find it here, try Russell Stannard's http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

Recording from Tue Dec 11 of Nellie Deutsch in conversation with Russell Stannard

Tuesday, December 11 2012|10:00 AM (EST)

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1038121-conversation-with-russell-stannard-british-council-tech-award-winner 

 

EVO Training tutorials are here: http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/5965197/TUTORIALS

Extensive help from BaW: http://baw2013.pbworks.com/w/page/60013060/HelpPage

 

How to use ...


 

Audio Tools

 

  • Audacity

 

  • AudioBoo

          https://audioboo.fm/ - most straightforward, has quite easy signup, upload audacity file or record directly onto site, allows you to comment on student work, need to harvest URLs from students (could do that in a Google Doc or TitanPad)

 

  • Vocaroo

http://vocaroo.com/ - incredibly straightforward, but requires a certain port be open

 

  • Vokie

  • Voxopop

http://www.voxopop.com/

You must set up talkgroups or discussions before you can add recordings

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011 

AudioBoo, Voxopop and Vokie
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-07.1749.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350 

 

Blackboard Collaborate

 

How to enter the Bb Collaborate Webheads Virtual Room

 

  1. Visit http://webheads.learningtimesevents.org/ 
  2. Follow instructions at the TECH CHECK tab
    direct link here http://webheads.learningtimesevents.org/tech-check/
  3. At the HOME tab write your name and location and ENTER NOW
  4. Launch the meeting.collab file
    1. If you haven't downloaded Java yet, start with Step 1
    2. If you have Java, START SESSION in Step 2 

 

 

Report to us if you are unable to connect. We can help. 
You can leave messages here on any day, at any time: http://chatwing.com/vancestev

 

If you can't open the collab file that should launch the program

  1. right click on the collab file
  2. select open with
  3. and try to open it with the Bb Collaborate exe file

 

On a PC, the Bb Collaborate exe LAUNCH file can usually be found down this path

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Blackboard\Blackboard Collaborate Launcher\

Where YourUserName is the user name you use to log on to your computer

 

See below the videos created by Vance Stevens and Elizabeth Anne explaining how to brute force your BbC into cooperating with your recalcitrant .collab files 

 

What to do with the .collab file introduced in 2015

http://library.blackboard.com/ref/9a27bb08-b742-4a75-8ac8-4d22e7db93ab/content/topics/troubleshooting.htm 

 

Tip #1 for getting into the Webheads Virtual Room

To get into http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Start with the Tech Check: http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/tech-check/ 

This will install the Blackboard Collaborate Launcher if you need it

If that doesn't work Vance recommends the Brute Force method; see Tip #2 below

 

Elizabeth Anne recorded her experience with the new Bb Launcher,

on YouTube at https://youtu.be/aSgAAQWiRGY 

and she is the chief contributor to updated instructions on this wiki

http://ict4elt2016.pbworks.com/w/page/103996683/Joining_the_Webheads_BbC_Room 

 

Robert Wachman recommends  the University of Illinois YouTube tutorial, Blackboard Collaborate for Moderators, where I learned about using the Multimedia tool.  Here also is their participants guide, Blackboard Collaborate for Students, for orientation of newcomers. 

 

Nellie offers this video for resolving problems with Macs: https://youtu.be/m3txKW9DhSc 

and also https://youtu.be/y_VblPcILFU

 

Nives Torresi found this solution, re-run the launcher and select REPAIR. It worked for her and she contributed these great screen shots

http://www.evernote.com/l/AkDROzNvkLNIcb-NnX1DOb4J7MRUX1gzOWo/ 

 

Tip #2 the brute force method

 

Here's what Vance has since discovered ...

https://youtu.be/-Zol7rZb9uo 

 

When I right click / on the meeting.collab file I have downloaded, I can select Open with ... On my PCs I am OFFERED to open the program with BbC Launcher. So my system knows it's there. It's quite odd that when I double click the meeting.collab file in Windows 8.1 the system tells me I have an incompatible Blackboard Collaborate Launcher file, since I can launch the same .exe file using right click / open with

 

If your system doesn't know your BbCL is on your computer (doesn't offer it to you) then you have to tell the system where it is by browsing to its location which seems consistently to be 

 

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Blackboard\Blackboard Collaborate Launcher\

 

In this location you should find Win32Launcher.exe, and you can choose to use that file to open meeting.collab

 

Obviously you have to change YourUserName to your user name, the name of your profile on that computer.

 

Incidentally if you go to your profile on your C: drive then you will see that you have no AppData folder listed. That's because Gates & company have decided that this folder on the computer you bought and took home with you for your personal use should be HIDDEN from you. We managed to sleuth it out, and you can get into that folder by following the secret path above.

 

You can also browse to your PC, Users folder, browse to your profile, left click to the right of the icons showing the path to get it to revert to something looking like this

  • C:\Users\YourUserName and then manually right in backward slash \ followed by 'AppData'
  • so now you have this: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData
  • press enter, and you can then browse to Local, Programs (careful, not Blackboard at this point), Blackboard under programs,
  • and finally Blackboard Collaborate Launcher, where you should see your Win32Launcher.exe program file

 

In my case, it's worked on my Windows 7 and Windows 8 and upgraded to 8.1 computers

 

Tip #3 Use Firefox or Safari instead of Chrome

 

Info on Chrome website regarding lack of support for Java

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213033 

 

More info from Java's blog

https://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml 

 

 

Material from 2014 and earlier

 


 

Some good tips on presentation with Elluminate here (e.g. why you do NOT want to attempt Prezi through BbC / Elluminate)
http://johart1.edublogs.org/2013/10/07/getting-ready-for-reform-symposium-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-781

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011 

https://sites.google.com/site/epcoplearnspace/

  
        1. Browse to http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ 
        2. Skip the blanks for your name and location
        3. Scroll down to where it says Session Moderator Login.
        4. Click there and you will enter the session as moderator.

 

The screencast at http://screencast.com/t/27G256Kcr was made with a previous version of the interface but illustrates the steps

 

 

    • How to RECORD and then harvest the recording

      • Before you start recording erase all recordngs made before just in case someone has left a recording from before
      • then start the recording
      • At the end of the session stop the recording
      • then when everyone leaves, follow the procedure in the screencast below
      • To harvest your recording once you've all left the room: http://screencast.com/t/t8zkf9PU88er 
        This screencast was made with an early version of BbC / Elluminate, but it illustrates the concepts accurately
        One difference is that the Recordings are now under a tab at http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/recordings/

 

 

 

You can get a free Blackboard Collaborate room here,  http://www.wecollaborate.com/

 

 

Blogs

 

  • Blogger

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011 

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-04.0146.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350  

 

  • Wordpress

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011 

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-10.1826.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350 

 

File Storage

 

  • Box 

  • Dropbox

 

http://www.jerryswiatek.com/2012/07/collecting-student-work-using-dropbox.html

 

Google Tools

 

  • Google Docs

 

          Carl Dowse has curated a collection of resources for those with little or no experience with Google Docs and Google Drive

http://bitly.com/bundles/o_7g9dui3mug/d

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-11.0243.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350

 

  • Google+

 

A Handy Visual Guide to Google+
http://edudemic.com/2013/02/a-handy-visual-guide-to-google/

 

  • Google+ Hangout

 

http://jefflebow.net/node/248

 

It's incredibly simple to start, record, and stream a Google+ Hangout. You simply start a hangout, get it set up to your liking, and when ready -- start the recording.  The moment you've started the hangout you get embed code.  This is the same embed code that allows you to play the video once it's been recorded, the kind you are familiar with for embedding YouTube videos on your blogs and web sites.

 

With Hangout, while you are recording, the embed code streams the recording.  So if you embed it in a website you can invite people to that URL and they will be able to see and hear the event as it is happening.  If you then provide some way for them to interact with you in txt chat (we use the etherpad clones) then you have a means of:

    • accommodating up to ten in the hangout for live interaction
    • accommodating any number of people in the stream with ability to interact with them in synch with the webcast
    •  finding out who would like to join the hangout and rotate people out who have become non-talking heads so you can bring conversant heads in

 

Stevens, V. (2013) Tweaking Technology: How Communities Meet Online Using Google+ Hangouts On Air with Unlimited Participants. TESL-EJ, November 2013–Volume 17, Number 3. Available http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume17/ej67/ej67int/

 

Using Google Hangouts for Teaching.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJA_QeUNyY

 

 

 

  • Googlesites

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011

Christine Dix and Carole McCulloch
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-17.0309.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350

 

  • iGoogle

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-31.1754.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350  

 

Grammar teaching

Diagram sentences: http://1aiway.com/nlp4net/services/enparser/

 

Image hosting and editing

 

  • Bubble Us

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-24.1743.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350 

 

Jing

Dec 2012, Jing will stay free despite retirement of pro version

http://www.techsmith.com/jing-pro-retires.html 

 

Russell Stannard's teacher training videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.html 

 

Paper.li

 

 

Podcasting

 

  • Odiogo

 

http://Odiogo.com is pretty nifty.  You install it on your blog and it reads your blog to whomever clicks on the audio player. It turns your blog into a podcast. It's free, and all Odiogo needs is your blog URL, an email address, and your assurance that you are the owner of that blog; see: http://screencast.com/t/NmJkNTQ4ND

Odiogo will create mp3 files of all your blog postings and create a page for you on its servers which gives the feeds for your blog.  For example, for http://justcurious.posterous.com/, the Odiogo URLs are:

 

If you lose track of where your podcast feed it, just substitute the name of your blog for just-curious above; for example:

 

Screencast-o-matic

 

Russell Stannard's training videos on Screencast-o-matic

 

Screenr

 

 

Slideshare

 

 

SurveyMonkey

 

Threading in email forum listservs

 

 

Time zones

 

 

Twibes

 

 

Twitter

 

Would anyone like to write the how-to for this one?  I guess it should include

 

 

Voicethread

 

 

 

Wikis

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011 

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-07.1749.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350 

 

PBworks

 


  

 

Wordle

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011 

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-01.0303.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350   

 

 

YouTube

 

From the EpCoP MOOC in August, September, 2011

Mutuota Kigotho - First presentation recorded here:
 https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-15.0316.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350 

 


Ning

 

We're no longer using Ning, but this was here from when we used to use it:

Why do we no longer use Ning?

http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/thanks-pearson-and-ning-but-it-just-doesnt-work/

 

 

YouTube plugin error

 

Ning Help

Find all the questions you have on how to use Ning in the following link http://help.ning.com/cgi-bin/ning.cfg/php/enduser/home.php?p_sid=PoufeOZj

 

 

 

Some of these tutorials draw on the Aug/Sept 2011 EpCoP MOOC Recordings

At this page, https://sites.google.com/site/eportfoliocommunity/epcop-mooc find links to recordings already made.  

 

 

 

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