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Welcome to Blackboard Collaborate

Before we start:

1. Please check your audio is working: Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard

2. Say hello to the group

3. Please introduce yourself in the chat room

4. If you don’t have a video camera you can upload a photo of yourself. Click the button to the right of your name & choose Edit Profile.

5. If you want to download and print out the PowerPoint slides for this session you can do so

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Can everyone hear me ok?

Please use the tick and cross buttons to let me know

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Using the Interface

Audio – click [Talk] only when talking

•Emoticons (approval etc.)•Set status to “Away”•Raise your hand•Polling

Chatting

TIP: Hold your mouse over buttons to see what they do

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Where do you live? Elsewhere

Use the starin thewhiteboardtools panel

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What are 2-3 things you can use the whiteboard for?

Use the text box in the whiteboard tools panel to add your contributions below

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Who has used web conferencing before?

• Please use the tick or cross to let me know

• Then you can clear your responseor wait for me to clear the responses

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Audio – introduce yourself to the group

• Please raise your hand to speak

• I will ask each person to speak in turn

• When I do this click on the [Talk] button. When the [Talk] button has a blue microphone others can hear you:

• Introduce yourself to the group and tell us what you do, what experience you’ve had with web conferencing (if any) and what you want to get out of today’s session.

• Click [Talk] again to turn off your mic when you’ve finished

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How to upload files

• I will now share my screen with you to show you how to upload files that are sent to the participants

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Example of a poll

• I will now share my screen with you to show you how to change the poll type to an ABC response and then post the response data to the whiteboard

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Q. Do you think you would use polls with your students?

A. Yes

B. No

C. I’m not sure

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Breakout groups

• You can use breakout groups to allow people to collaborate in smaller teams.

• You can :

– assign people to groups randomly

– manually move users in to groups

– allow people to join a group

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Web tour

Good for:

•Showing videos – video plays on each participants own computer independently.

•Case studies – students can navigate the website

Example:

•Blackboard Collaborate introduction video (start from 5)

•http://www.brainshark.com/blackboardinc/vu?pi=zGLzYw5XBz35Sgz0

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Share an application

Good for:

•Showing how to use a program

•Pointing out a particular part of a website

•Showing a particular part of a video

Example:

•Blackboard Collaborate introduction video (start from 5)

•http://www.brainshark.com/blackboardinc/vu?pi=zGLzYw5XBz35Sgz0

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Any final questions?

• Post these on the chat window

or

• Raise your hand to talk

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Thank you

• If you’d like to applaud now you can do so using the emoticons