Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro is the next generation of web conferencing software that enables individuals, universities, and small businesses to instantly communicate and collaborate through easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting rooms. John Graves and Trip Kirkpatrick of the Center for Language Study will demo.

Last year, the Center for Language Study (a Collaborative Learning
Center partner) was approached by the Council on Latin American and
Iberian Studies to collaborate on offering Nahuatl, an indigenous
Mesoamerican language, to Yale students but the program lacked a local
instructor. Our first means of conducting this course was a
less-than-ideal hybrid solution involving Elluminate and Skype
videoconferencing. This year, we are using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro and
are thus far much more satisfied. In this presentation, Trip Kirkpatrick
and John Graves from the CLS will discuss AACP and its uses not just for
distance learning but also for myriad other distance participatory
experiences. You are welcome before the session to get an overview of
AACP’s features at http://meet-test.its.yale.edu/yale_adobe_how_to.

The CLS would like to thank the Council on Latin American and Iberian
Studies as well as Educational Technologies and the Windows Systems
group at ITS for their support in using and paying for AACP.

Matt Regan of the Instructional Technology Group will describe the new Media Checkout System available to students through Bass Library. He will show the audience examples of cameras, video cameras, and digital voice recorders available for checkout. Caroly Caizzi of the Visual Resources Collection will talk about best practices for shooting video.

Photosynth is an application that allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web.

Stacey Maples of the Map Collection will present.

Moderated by Joe Gordon; speakers: Pericles Lewis, Matthew Jacobson, George Miles, & Ed Kairiss.

Please note the time:

2:00 – 3:00pm, Tuesday April 7th

Presenters: Mark Bauer, Yianni Yessios, & Barbara Rockenbach

Presenters: Jessica Pressman, Justin Zaremby & Ken Panko

Presenters: Yianni Yessios, Read Lifset, Matthew Eckelman

Presenters: Matt Wilcox & Charlie Greenberg

February 24th, 11:00am-12:00pm

Virtual CLassrooms and Synchronous Learning:

Charlie Greenberg: “As an online lecturer for San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science the past two fall semesters,  I am given unlimited opportunities to use Elluminate in my course on Medical Librarianship. The Elluminate installation at SJSU features a centralized calendar which can generate invitations that can be copied into class email messages, dedicated TA support if requested, and session recordings that can be distributed with a permanent link. I ran two alternative real-time class sessions per week (attendance was required at one of the other). All students are required  to have microphones, but there is also a instant messaging window as part of the interface. I created a PPT for each “discussion” that I could import into the Elluminate whiteboard (problems with Windows Vista for this), and I would post a pdf of the PPT slides in the course site, along with a link to the session recording. During the session, all students and  moderators (lecturers) have rights to share their desktop, use instant messaging, or write on the whiteboard. One person at a time “talks”, and students “raise their hand” with an icon to indicate they want to comment orally.  Some just write in the IM window.  The School also features “drop-in” help, and some instructors use it for “office hours.”

There is a free version of Elluminate that anyone can use, but only up to three participants at one time and no recording. Everything else seems to work. (http://www.elluminate.com/vroom) The Yale school of public health is negotiating for an academic user license, and the medical library will piggyback on that, as well as the school of nursing.”

When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Presenters: Matt Regan & Mary Barr

February 17, 11:00am-12:00pm

Videoconferencing in the Classroom with Skype [Presenters: Mary Barr & Matt Regan]
Invite guest speakers from anywhere in the world to your classroom using the popular computer software program Skype. While in-person engagements can be inconvenient and costly, video conferencing allows educators to invite guest speakers to the classroom by turning their personal computers into inexpensive audio and video communication systems.
Drawing from an interview with Gordon Quinn, the executive producer of “Hoop Dreams,” Mary Barr, Lecturer in African American Studies, will discuss videoconferencing as a pedagogical tool and Matthew Regan from the Instructional Technology Group, will summarize voice over internet protocol (VoIP).

When? : 11:00am until noon

Where? : Bass Library L01