Live Blogging from CALI Conference – Day 2

Session 1 – IT & Faculty as Partners in Education – Basic Tools for Change - N. Carolina Central U School of Law

• faculty are key part of testing technology to be used
• SMART boards, screens to the right, mic for each 2 students in all rooms
• student study rooms – vga adapters to  connect to lcd screens, SMARTsympodium
• 90% of faculty use technology
• 100% use TWEN
• 75% use ppt
• 15% use clickers
• 85% use screen capture (video)
• key to partnership – solution driven, minimize tech jargon, IT approachable
• senior faculty partner
  • smart classroom – good for large classes, visual & audio enhancements – 2 large screens, prof wireless mic, student mics
  • goal is engagement – good prof doesn’t worry about competition from students on the web
  • use of techology should be seamless – students shouldn’t notice
  • solution to a malfunction should come after school – just revert to “old school”
  • the problem is with the faculty not IT
• junior faculty partners
  • knowing how to sell it to faculty is important
  • uses clickers – keeps students engaged, assesses students, leads to discussion, enables participation in largr classes, surveyed students & they liked them
  • all classes are recorded (video capture) - encourages students to watch them for review & clarification
  • taught while at a conference – used logme in and skype
  • watched her class via webcam – they were doing a mock trial
  • why she was comfortable?
    • pedagogical goal – good for students
    • supportable & encouraging environment
    • students are customers, must serve the students
    • IT folks must approach the faculty, bring in people to show the faculty the effectiveness of the technology
    • use videoconferencing for interviews
    • use YouTube videos – such as stem cell
    • examsoft – loan laptop to students if they don’t have one
    • dragon naturally speaking – convert voice to text
  • use coursecasting for recording ALL classes - software driven – all content is wmv and you own it – subscription-based
  • located on the portal
  • 600 students
  • $300,000 for new tech to a room

Session 2 – Teaching with cloud & flash computing- WSU Law School library – PDF – http://w.cali.org/conference/sites/default/files/CALI2009.pdf

• course in TWEN (national)
  • westlaw watch
  • westcite
  • 25 google tools
    • publish ppt in Google & then embed inTWEN
• cloud computing – data & apps on the internet
• why Google Saas? backup, stroage, convenient, easy, free, collaborate
• why flash & portable apps?
  • give faculty a flashdrive with apps
    • open office suite
    • firefox
    • skype
    • toucan
    • chromium browser
    • eraser – data removal
    • vlc media player
    • sumatra pdf viewer
    • clamwin – anitvirus
• law faculty portal – customized searches, orientation materials
• westlaw watch modules, clips, ssm
• homepage modules – html tab, cut & paste html from google docs (ppt), cut & paste html of anything from google
• Westlaw watch – free for faculty – create up to 25 clips, modules, gives you rss, html, email – bEST TOOL for any topic
  • webpage directory
• give rss feeds from twen class to students – they can use any reader
• upload mp3 files to TWEN
• lawschool exchange -for faculty – repository of files – eventually a place for multimedia files – up to 30 mbs now – can link to TWEN
• customized Westlaw search page
• worldcat
• sage in firefox – send you rss update
• google – add feeds of blogs  – videos of up to 100 mbs
• rss feeds in TWEN – each document – modifypage – enable feed
• create a flash tutorial – upload to Youtube – copy the code and paste into html box & now it is embedded in TWEN

Session 3 – Multimedia Tools for Law School – Rutgers School of Law

• display images – beastr image rotator
• create flash from pdf – flashpaper – pdfme
• audio – 128 bit – cd quality
• video – 640 x 480 resolution – youtube
• flash – used the most – 99% can play – flash player is free
  • downloads – streaming – better for live content, progressive – works with firewall
  • need to convert to flv, embed code into webpage
  • twisted podcast – log in and flash player embedded
  • web-based converter for video
  • ffmeg – encoder, super
  • players for flash – adobe, jw flv, media player classic
  • server software to convert – ubuntu, red 5 – free
  • screencast – camtasia, captivate – $300
  • flash player 7 or above – for video
  • keep original recording

Session 4 -  Flash-based Skills Training Videos - Case Western Reserve Law School

• faculty requirements – students cannot download, password-protect, easy to use, ability to comment, live password-protected remote view by faculty
• not all the above got met ie commenting, live view
• IT requirements – less time consuming than vhs, platform neutral
• contenders
  • medianotes – free, timeconsuming, distributing file & comments, not web-based
  • communicoach – web-based, not free, not easy to use
  • windows media server – permissions management, compatibility
• developed own flash site, intergrated with AD, disabled right click to download, easy to use, not time consuming, progresive download (cached locally)
  • lawvideo.case.edu
  • procedure – student records video, av drops file onto server, playlist is generated  by faculty, student/faculty watches video
  • faculty get a list of usernames for their section
  • camcorder -Sanyo vpc-cg9 – generates mp4, H.264,  supports progressive downloads – no conversion necessary, small file sizes – under $200, var-a2 & var-g8 accessories(bought from Japanese importer), sd card, tripod – no mic imput
  • website IIS 6.0, longtail’s JW flv player (with license to remove watermark), progressive download
  • another solution -use Adobe Connect to watch video live and comment, it is saved as flv

Session 5 – Building Open Source Library Web Apps – Yale, Loyola Law Schools

• setting up your web server -windows, apache, mysql, php or perl or python
  • use virtualization if you don’t have a server - run a virtual computer environment on a pc
  • virtual box software – uses a lot of memory – creates a virtual machine on a pc
  • turnkey – install linux – can install wordpress appliance
  • acquia – install drupal modules
• open source web apps
  • wordpress.org
    • wordpress multiuser – manage more than one blog
    •  download & install plug-ins
    • buddypress – social networking software connected to wordpress
    • scriblio – customized codes & scripts for a library
  • drupal
    • drupal.org – download all modules & themes
    • content management system
    • can do anything online with drupal
    • wyswyg editor –  fckeditor is one
    • document delivery – organized
    • groups
    • embedded media
  • DropBox – store & access files

Polishing you digital identity session – http://www.awesometoast.com/cali/