Transcript DyKnow Training - South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

DyKnow Training
Ver 5.0 – June 2008
Brad O’Brien
Welcome!!!
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What we will be covering today:
Setting up a class
 Joining/Starting a session
 Importing PowerPoint
 Student/Instructor Options
 Taking Notes
 Saving Notebooks
 Monitor
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Setup DyKnow 5.0
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Setting up DyKnow 5.1
What version do I have? (Help/About)
 We Will be using the 5.1 client installed – the old
version (4.x) will NOT work
 F:\install\Dyknow\dyknowinstall51_86.exe
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 Client Only Install for Instructors
 Server – sdsmt-cp01
Setting up a class
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DyKnow Explorer
My Current Classes
 Insert/Class Folder
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 Please follow these naming conventions:
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SOC 100 MWF 8-9am
Section Number of your class
Joining a Class
Click on “Show Offered Classes”
 Click on “DyKnow Training SDSMT”
 Click on “Enroll?”
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Once I start the session, you can then “Join Session”
Import PowerPoint
Can be done at the start of the session
 Larger Powerpoint presentations should be
imported before the class.
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Use DyKnow Explorer to import larger powerpoints
into your class.
 Go to the class you want to import your powerpoint
 Select File/Import and select the PowerPoint
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Things that don’t work as of yet – web links, sound,
transitioning slides, etc. Basically, DyKnow just takes
snapshots of slides.
Synchronization
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The “Tack”
 Tacked Out (Manual Sync)
 Tacked In (Auto Sync)
 Status – Sync’d
 Status – Not Sync’d – push to Sync
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Students can tack in/out to lag behind and finish notes
Instructors can set the default to keep students sync’d.
Panel Navigation
 First Panel of Notebook (Powerpoint Presentation)
 Previous Panel
 Next Panel
 Last Panel of Notebook
 Add Blank panel to the end of the notebook
 Add next prepared panel to the end of the notebook
Film Strip Viewer
Displays all panels that have been appended in the current
session – pressing it again removes the filmstrip view
Allows navigation to a panel with just one click
My DyKnow Page
Offered Classes
Current Classes
New/Open Notebook
Monitor
Create Class
Start Session
Join Session
Private Notes
 Icon to toggle private notes section
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Private Keyboard Notes
Private Freehand Notes (using the pen)
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Completely private for both instructor and student
 (if not using the overhead projector)
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Private notes have blank page for each new panel
Writing and Editing
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Lasso Tool
Line Thickness
Pen
Full Panel Text
Highlighter
Eraser
Text Box
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Recent Colors
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Justification for text
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Text formatting
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Lists
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Indents
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Text is handled much like Microsoft word.
You can use either the Full Panel Text (it
uses the full panel as if it were a blank
page) or the Text box (if you want text in
only a certain area of the page)
Shapes:
View/Toolbars/Shapes – allows you to
draw lines, arrows, boxes, circles, and
tables.
Use the drawing tools
Draw a circle here:
Draw a rectangle here
Draw and arrow from the rectangle to the circle
Use the text tool to type your name
Use the lasso tool and erase your name
Saving Current Tool Settings
Tools/Save Current Tool Settings
Saves time by using your tool
preferences
How to deal with ink on the slides
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Instructors and students can write on the panel
Use a text box and remind students that you will NOT
write in that box – it is for their use
 Use Private Notes whenever possible
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Student writes here
Multiple Choice Polling
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Students can participate in real-time multiple choice questions
(you need the question embedded into your Powerpoint – students
will only see boxes to select – you can not send the text for the
questions.)
Answers are automatically graphed (anonymously)
To request answers – press the
button at the top
of the screen
– select the appropriate boxes
and hit the Request Answers
button – hit the Show Results to
see the class answers.
Your Question
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Who makes the best Pizza in Rapid City
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Pizza Hut
Dominoes
Papa Johns
Mom
I don’t eat that junk
Submitting Panels by Students
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Students click this button to submit their
panels
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Instructors can display student’s panels
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Allows anonymous submissions
Questions
4+4=
a,e,i,o…
There was a farmer, had a dog
What was the dog’s name?
Submit your answers when finished
Adding Web Links to your Panels
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Bryan Schumacher’s Web Page
http://www.bryanschumacher.com/
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Need to use “Insert/Link” from DyKnow – Web Links
need to be inserted after the fact – through the
DyKnow application – they will NOT work otherwise.
Participant Status
Show’s who is currently viewing
your class
 Show’s how well your students
are understanding the concepts.
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Request Participant’s Status
Students click on one of
the Status symbols to show
their level of understanding
Graph shows on
instructors screen for
student understanding
Chat Sessions
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Allows students and instructors to “chat” via
the keyboard
Instructors can send messages to individual
students or all students
 Setup for a “distance” type setting, but could be
used for office hours, etc.
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Session Options
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Allow anonymous Panel
Submission
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Participant Auto
Synchronization
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Turn On
Attendance
Turn Off
Monitor
Allows instructors to “limit” what students have
access to while they are in the class
 Students will always be able to “get around”
Monitor, but the school has setup a policy on this
specific issue.
 Students will be monitored anywhere on campus if
they have skipped class
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Monitor Continued…
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Select the class you want to
monitor
Monitor/Application Blocking
Allows instructors to setup
“rules”
Monitor Continued Still…
See Who’s being Monitored
 See Thumbnails of screen shots
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Replay Panel
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View/Replay Panel
Allows students to see the steps taken in each panel of
the notebook (presentation)
 Very useful for showing step by step process of
equations, etc
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Replay Panel Demonstration
Administrative Options
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Logging into the Administrative Webpage
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http://sdsmt-cp01.sdsmt.edu
 Must be logged out of DyKnow application or it will log you
out
Removing Students from your class
 Checking attendance
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Thanks!!!
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What we have covered today:
Setting up a class
 Joining/Starting a session
 Importing PowerPoint
 Student/Instructor Options
 Taking Notes
 Saving Notebooks
 Monitor
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