Transcript Promethean and Elluminate Best Practices

Interactive Whiteboards
and
Live web collaboration…
Together at last!
(A best practices booklet)
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Version: June 11, 2007
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Alone, each is an industry leading solution.
Promethean’s Activboard and Activstudio
software and family bring large and small
interactive drawing surfaces and sound
educational content and pedagogy to teachers
and learners.
Better image here
Promethean is about interactive surfaces and
software that enable whole class interaction
Elluminate Live! extends instructional
resource and student interaction across
locations in real-time, using the Internet.
Elluminate is about live, cross platform
web collaboration designed by and for
educators.
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Engage more students in more ways
Your whiteboard now crosses place and time to bring students
and ideas together in ways that were not previously possible.
With the combination of interactive whiteboards and live web
collaboration, you are limited only by your imagination.
Add creativity, innovation, and excitement to your teaching and
learning environment.
Image: I’d really like an image of a teacher reaching “in” to the
whiteboard with an Elluminate UI on it and reaching out
to the world… But too complex for this draft.
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Together, they change the education equation!
This short booklet describes four basic scenarios where the combined power of
Promethean and Elluminate combined exceeds what each could do alone. Then, it
describes how you can implement some of these scenarios.
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Getting your Promethean Activboard product and your free Elluminate vRoom
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A general overview of four application scenarios
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Room-to-room learning community
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Bring in a guest speaker from anywhere in the world
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Make a parity classroom accessible to a remote student
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Capture classroom activity for later use
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Share your ideas!
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Let’s do it!
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Connect three classrooms
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Bring a community leader into your classroom from a remote location
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Occupational therapy and handwriting
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Next steps
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Obtaining Promethean and Elluminate Products
Main site:
http://www.elluminate.com
FREE version:
http://www.getvroom.com
http://www.prometheanworld.com
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Room-to-room learning communities
Whether a classroom you want to partner with is down the hall, across town, or across
the planet, Promethean and Elluminate together enable you to extend visual, audio,
and kinesthetic activity and interaction – in real time – across locations.
What you need to make three locations morph into one:
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An Activboard at attached to an internet connected Mac or a PC
A free, three location Elluminate vRoom account
A microphone and your Activeboard speakers. (A USB or Firewire webcam is optional.)
Instructor and student leaders
Educationally sound activities
What it looks like:
Activboard image with
Elluminate screen shot
Room of people
Activboard image with
Elluminate screen shot
Room of people
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Activboard image with
Elluminate screen shot
Room of people
Room-to-room learning communities
What you get (well, some of a much longer list, anyway):
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Students in their seats and at the front of the room interacting with people they may never
have met at all, much less in a classroom environment
Collaborative problem solving at the board
The possibility of open captioning interactions for students with hearing issues
The ability to record these interactions for later student, instructor, or parent review*
Instructional resource shared across locations that may not have them (for example, the
Japanese language teacher in the district is only available for a certain period of time – but
now she can be shared across multiple buildings at the same time)
Multiple channels of communication and instruction – visual, textual, and aural
Student teams can be broken across locations
Since the Internet connections are not per-minute, long length sessions where rooms are
connected for a morning – or all day – can foster ongoing student and instuctor interactions
A really cool platform to play competitive educational games where students compete from
the desktop or from the front of the room – against students from other locations
* Recording is not available with the free vRoom but with paid versions of Elluminate Live!
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Bring in a guest speaker from anywhere in the world
Does someone’s Mom have a cool job? Does a Dad want to teach a math lesson from
his office or his lab at the University? Do you know a VIP who is willing to speak to
your class, but can’t afford the travel time?
What you need to bring in a guest speaker:
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An Activboard at attached to an internet connected Mac or a PC
A free, three location Elluminate vRoom account
A microphone and your Activeboard speakers. (A USB or Firewire webcam is optional.)
A remote speaker with an internet connected Mac or PC and a webcam and a headset (and
optional Activslate)
The ability to handle the excitement of meeting cool people and showing students real-world
leaders live, and giving them individualized attention.
What it looks like:
Activboard image with
Elluminate screen shot with
guest image on video window.
Room of people sitting near
the board in a circle.
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Art of a person at a pc
Screen shot of Elluminate
with the person on the vid
camera
Guest speakers
What you get (don’t forget that the guest speaker gets a lot too!):
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Students who learn to write better inviting famous (and not so famous) people to speak in
their classes
Oh, and they will learn to write thank you notes as well
Involving parents and community leaders to participate in the day-to-day activities of
teaching and learning when they would have otherwise not been able to
Building a local repository of recordings of these interactions for later use*
Multiple channels of communication and instruction – visual, textual, and aural
Create national and international real-time “web pals” and “blog pals” where real-time
interaction is mixed into the other kinds of communication
Turn your own students into “guest speakers” who present at other rooms and schools
Virtual field trips
Meeting the cast of a play
Watching a doctor work
* Recording is not available with the free vRoom but with paid versions of Elluminate Live!
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Parity classrooms for remote students
Is a student at home recovering from a long medical issue? Is a student home for just
week with an illness? Is a teacher in the hospital for surgery and wants to teach some
lessons instead of the substitute a few times a week?
What you need to bring a remote learner or teacher into your classroom for parity
interaction
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An Activboard at attached to an internet connected Mac or a PC
A free, three location Elluminate vRoom account
A microphone and your Activeboard speakers. (A USB or Firewire webcam is optional.)
A remote student with an internet connected Mac or PC and a webcam and a headset (and
optional Activslate) Many hospitals have internet connections available for patients. And
many recovering students have home internet access.
What it looks like:
Activboard image with
Elluminate screen shot with
guest image on video window.
Room of people sitting near
the board in a circle.
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Art of a person at a pc
Screen shot of Elluminate
with the person on the vid
camera and an Activslate
Remote students
What you get (for a lot of people, not just the student):
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Reduced costs by not needing to bring in tutors for the remote student as often or at all
Social interaction that would otherwise wane is fostered between remote student and
classmates
A student with a short-term at-home illness can keep up with classmates with minimal “setup
time” needed by any school IT people
* Recording is not available with the free vRoom but with paid versions of Elluminate Live!
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Capture classroom activity for later use
Do parents want to review classroom activities? Is a student being called out of the
room (or homebound) and you want to let them watch the full classroom interaction?
For professional development, does instructor interaction have to be critiqued? Does
the unfolding of student solution to a problem need to be shown to a parent or other
educator – not just as a “result” but as a process?
What you need to record whole class activity for later playback:
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An Activboard at attached to an internet connected Mac or a PC
A full license of Elluminate Live! that allows recording (not the free vRoom)
A microphone. (A USB or Firewire webcam is optional.)
Later playback on any Internet connected Mac or PC with speakers
What it looks like:
Activboard image with
Elluminate screen shot with
guest image on video window.
Room of people sitting near
the board in a circle.
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Shot of person at mac
“watching” an Elluminate
recording
Capture classroom activity for later use
What you get:
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Help students review for exams
Enable students with disabilities to review classroom activity later as many times as needed
Capture classroom best practices
Share new instructional techniques with other professionals
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This is not an exhaustive list.
Share your ideas. People want to know!
http://www.elluminate.com/community
http://www.prometheanplanet.com
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Let’s do it!
OK, so we’ve looked at a few conceptual overviews of the ways in which
Promethean and Elluminate can be used together.
Now, let’s actually look at steps of how to make three very real and doable ideas
happen, step by step.
Prerequisites:
1. You have your Activboard set up and running
2. Your PC or Mac is connected to the internet and you have a microphone and
speakers (or microphone and headsets) up and running
3. You’ve signed up for and tested your free Elluminate vRoom
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Let’s do it!
Connect three classrooms
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The Classroom A teacher creates a free Elluminate vRoom account and sends invitations to
Classrooms B and C
Classroom A opens an activity on a flipchart
Classroom A starts application sharing of the flipchart
Classroom A leads the activity with writing and audio and text chat.
Classroom B (or C) has something to add by raising their hand.
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Classroom A gives them control of the microphone and application.
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Classroom B (or C) takes the leadership role
Classroom A takes control of the pen back when other class is done
Classroom C wants to make a point, so they raise their hand.
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They perform a “web tour” and show Classrooms A and B a point from a web site
At the end of the exercise, Classroom A closes the flipchart
Classroom A uses Elluminate to send the completed flipchart file to Classrooms B and C
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Let’s do it!
Bring a community leader into class as a “remote guest”
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A teacher invites a leader to join the classroom “virtually” at a specified time.
Outside of the classroom time, the teacher sets up a test time where the guest (or his or her
assistant) tests Elluminate vRoom.
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The guest will need a headset and a microphone
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The guest can, optionally, have a webcam
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The guest should be prepared to share an application, show some slides, or show some
web pages. (The teacher can even control everything and let the guest “just speak.”)
When the time comes, the guest joins the Classroom’s vRoom
The guest presents some slides, shows their video camera (optional)
The students want to show the speaker some of their own work and get comments
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The students show some slides. a drawing, and their web site
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The students push a Quicktime video file to the guest
The guest, thoroughly impressed, comments and critiques
The students, suitably impressed, show their parents the recording of the presentation when they
get home (or in the public library).*
* Recording is not available with the free vRoom but with paid versions of Elluminate Live!
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Let’s do it!
Occupational therapy / handwriting lesson
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In the classroom: The student, the occupational therapist, a second student who is helping model
handwriting grip, posture, and penmanship
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The second student can be in the same physical classroom for modeling
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The second (or a third) student can be in a remote classroom or using an Activeslate so
the ink can just seem to “apprear” on Activeboard
Second student writes a few letters or a short sentence in a thick and darker pen color
Therapist changes color to lighter color and ink to thinner line
First student writes on top of the modeling writing
Instructor “drags” first student’s writing to the side and deletes modeled writing
Student now prints out what they “traced” for portfolio (and for pride)
Exercise can be iterated with modeled writing “above” the first students writing area. Eventually
no model is used at all.
Optionally, entire interaction including student and therapist audio is recorded* – student can
review, parents can review. This makes the “portfolio” recording a and end-to-end record rather
than just an end-product.
* Recording is not available with the free vRoom but with paid versions of Elluminate Live!
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Next steps
Join the Promethean Planet Community
http://www.prometheanplanet.com
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Attend live and recorded Elluminate training
http://www.elluminate.com/support/training/
Join the Elluminate Community
http://www.elluminate.com/community/
Participate in Elluminate webinars about many topics
http://www.elluminate.com click “Events”
Review Elluminate case studies
http://www.elluminate.com click “Success Stories”
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Credits
Gary Dietz, Original Author, [email protected], http://www.elluminate.com
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