What tools might be useful for faculty “Virtual Office Hours” to make themselves available after regular hours to students?
First and simplest choice would be traditional text based Chat tools. But you may want to use audio and video for a better experience.
Read about two professors’ ideas about Virtual Office Hours - “IM here” Reflections on Virtual Office Hours
See the new Video Chat page for a listing of video chat tools.
Feature: The Oberon Wiki is used for the planning of play production by faculty and students of the Theatre Arts Department and also members of community theater groups. Geoff discusses how the wiki’s strength as a collaborative tool facilitates the group production process.
Extras: Prof. Proehl discusses how technology aids the process of “re-seeing” and how that is central to the very notion of education.
You can also view the videos in the following formats:
Geoff Proehl is Professor of Theatre Arts in the Theatre Arts Department. He was recently named as a James Dolliver National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor.
We’ve released the latest addition to the Digital Teaching Showcase: Lotus Perry on YackPack. Click here to see the video or go to the Showcase tab on the navigation bar above!
These documents outline the steps required to properly use the projection systems in the eClassrooms.
How to connect a PC laptop to equipped rooms
How to connect a Mac laptop to equipped rooms
How to use the iMacs in Thompson when in windows mode.
The New York Times network must be getting slow, too. They note in a recent article that:
For months there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in the amount of data flying across the Internet. The threat, according to some industry groups, analysts and researchers, stems mainly from the increasing visual richness of online communications and entertainment — video clips and movies, social networks and multiplayer games.
Note that cause of this is Video, and lots of it: video downloading, media filesharing, multimedia rich games, and increasingly, Internet based television.
In 2007, YouTube alone accounted for more traffic than the entire Internet carried in the year 2000.
And projections are video traffic will grow more than 50% annually over the near future. All this despite the fact that editing video on a computer is still hard, still slow, and still something that most people don’t do very well even when they do it. Imagine if video editing were as easy as PowerPoint? One day, it will be.