Uses and Alternatives

•Name

•Department

•Role (faculty, staff, GA/TA)

•Experience

•Expectations

UMConnect (Adobe Connect) Strength: Powerpoint presentation; live with

ability to archive Weakness: absolutely dependent on ‘Net

connectivity; cannot edit or download product Adobe Presenter

Strength: Allows generation and publication of slide show with soundtrack. Local files with central ‘publication’

Weakness: It’s a glorification of Powerpoint

Skype (free video conferencing software): http://www.skype.com/ Strength: fairly robust audio and video

conferencing Weakness: No application sharing; some

security and resource-use cautions Polycom PVX sofware

Strength: good rendition of H.323 video conferencing with desktop sharing

Weakness: cost; single-user most effective

Video only UTube? iTunesU? Web site? Strength – Can be very simple to do Weakness – not interactive… but can be quite

effective. Time to produce depends on a wide series of factors

Audio only podcast? iTunesU? Web site? Strength – Can be very simple to do. Extremely

portable product! Weakness – not interactive… but can be quite

effective. Time to produce depends on a wide series of factors

Can have multiple ‘hosts’ or presenters That tiny video window? It can be

expanded, and may or may not work (bandwidth concerns)

Ethernet spirits willing, you can have multiple computers in the same room

You CAN video conference if all goes well

Live conference with Powerpoint slides Live conference video conferencing

1st choice would be dedicated system ($$$) UMConnect can work very well… it can also

not Live conference desktop sharing or

whiteboarding

The problem is not always in your set Success depends on available bandwidth

This is NOT something you can control Best times are before 11am and after 5pm Wireless will [sometimes] work. Etherjack is

highly preferred HOWEVER, pay attention to your cable length…

stringing long lengths to get to that Etherjack is a bad idea

If possible, test the configuration (place, time)

http://www.umn.edu/UMConnect

Consider your needs. UMConnect is best suited to deliver a Powerpoint presentation (or multiple Powerpoint presentations), live with the potential to save.

LIVE. POWERPOINT. Other uses can work but are not as likely to succeed.

Share the Powerpoint(s) ahead of time and use Skype to conference (or even a phone conference)

REMEMBER THE TELEPHONE!

Share the Powerpoints and the recorded audio from the live session (asynchronous solution)

Adobe Presenter (asynchronous solution) Podcast (nothing beyond the audio) Higher end productions (asynchronous)

can be dealt with in video editing solutions… time consuming

Example - Class orientation:https://umconnect.umn.edu/p82092517/

Example - A class lecture:https://umconnect.umn.edu/p77187695/

Go get it:http://umconnect-support.umn.edu/get/

For Information:http://www.umn.edu/umconnect

For Production:http://umconnect.umn.edu

• Allow adequate setup time – It is possible to create a site and be ready to go in 15min including time to upload your presentation. Are you sure this is how you want to do it???

• Check you sound setup… and check it again

•Keep Powerpoints simple – • no video; • make sure that the presentation uploads and functions correctly (it IS a conversion)

• If you are recording –• Break it up

• separate recording of introduction, presentation, questions

• You are transmitting a presentation –•If your speaker has no ‘slides’, get a pic of the speaker and create a slide to use for that talk!