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aliaa — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:08:21 +0000

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Quick Reference Card – Get to know Live Meeting 2007

Communicate and collaborate via the Web, with colleagues in other offices or countries, in real time online, with Microsoft® Office Live Meeting 2007.

Join a Live Meeting

Click the Join the meeting link in the Microsoft Office Outlook invitation. If you don’t have Live Meeting installed on your computer, you’ll find help in the First-Time Users section of the invitation.

Notes

To join a Live Meeting from an Outlook invitation, you must have Windows 2000SP4 or later installed on your computer.

If you use the Live Meeting service, you can ensure that your computer is ready to use Live Meeting by clicking the Check your system link. On the Installation page, click the Install and Join link, and then follow the installation instructions.

If your company uses Live Meeting as part of a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 deployment, you can join the corporate network by clicking the appropriate link and then following the installation instructions.

Join the audio and video in a Live Meeting

Note You can use a combination of computer audio and traditional audio only if your organization uses the Live Meeting service.

After you connect to Live Meeting, computer audio should be turned on by default. If the computer audio is not on, or if you want to join a traditional telephone conference call, click Join Audio in the Voice & Video pane.

Note By default, when you join the computer audio, your status is set to Mute. To be heard during the meeting, you must change the status to Unmute. To join computer audio, you must have regular speakers and microphones.

To contribute video to a Live Meeting, you must have a webcam. If you need to troubleshoot any audio and video issues during the meeting, you can use the Set Up Audio and Video Wizard. In the Voice & Video pane, click the >> button (called the More button), click Options, and then click Set Up Audio and Video.

Configure the Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook

To schedule a Live Meeting by using Outlook, you must have the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook installed and configured on your computer.

To configure the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook, do the following:

1. In Outlook, click Conferencing, and then click User Accounts.

o To configure the Conferencing Add-in by using Office Communications Server 2007, in the User Accounts dialog box, under Office Communications Server, in the Sign-in name text box, type your sign-in name. Click Test Connection to test the connection, and then click OK to save the settings.

o To configure the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook by using the Live Meeting service, in the User Accounts dialog box, under Live Meeting Service, enter the URL provided by your IT administrator. Select the I enter a user name and password to access my account check box, and then enter the user name and password in the appropriate fields.

Note An attendee may not need to select the I enter a user name and password to access my account option if the organization deploys Live Meeting by using a portal. In such cases, users are authenticated by using an Active Directory® directory service, and need not enter a user name and password.

2. Click Test Connection to test the connection, and then click OK to save the settings.

Schedule a Live Meeting that is supported by Office Communications Server 2007

1. To use Outlook to schedule a Live Meeting that uses Office Communications Server 2007, click the Schedule a Live Meeting button in Outlook. In the meeting invitation, type the e-mail address of each attendee, the subject and duration of the meeting, and any message that you want to appear in your invitation.

Note If you have configured both server and service, click Schedule a Live Meeting, and then click Office Communications Server.

2. In the Outlook invitation, specify the conferencing options that you want and then, in the meeting invitation, click Send.

Note By accepting the default values, you can schedule a Live Meeting without setting any options at all.

Schedule a Live Meeting that is supported by the Live Meeting service

1. To use Outlook to schedule a Live Meeting that uses the Live Meeting service, click the Schedule a Live Meeting button in Outlook. In the meeting invitation, type the e-mail address of each attendee, the subject and duration of the meeting, and any message that you want to appear in your invitation.

Note If you have configured both server and service, click Schedule a Live Meeting, and then click Live Meeting Service.

2. Click Options to set the meeting options. (See the following table for details.)

3. Finally, click OK to save the settings and then, in the Outlook invitation, click Send.

Note You can set default meeting options, or save options for individual meetings.

Use these settings	To do this
Details	Specify details such as meeting ID, language, and size.
Entry Control	Specify access rights and details for attendees and presenters.
Lobby	Allow attendees to join the meeting, but not to enter the actual Live Meeting room without your approval.
Additional Features	Enable and customize features such as Q&A, instant messaging, and application sharing.
Content Expiration	Set the expiry time of the meeting content.
Audio	Specify meeting audio options.
Recording	Configure settings to record the meeting. (Must first be enabled by Live Meeting administrator.)

Start an ad hoc Live Meeting

1. To start a Meet Now meeting, click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007.

2. On the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 submenu, click Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007.

3. To configure Meet Now options, do the following:

o By using Office Communications Server 2007:

In the User Accounts dialog box, under Office Communications Server, in the Sign-in name box, type your sign-in name. Click Test Connection to test the connection, and then click OK.

o By using the Live Meeting service:

In the User Accounts dialog box, under Live Meeting Service, enter the URL provided by your IT administrator. Select the I enter a user name and password to access my account check box, and then enter your user name and password. Finally, click Test Connection to test the connection, and then click OK.

4. Click the Meet Now button. This opens the Live Meeting window, from which you can invite the other attendees.

Exit or end a Live Meeting

To exit but not end a meeting (presenter and other attendees):

In the Live Meeting window, click Meeting and then, in the Meeting pane, click Exit.

To exit and end a meeting (presenter only):

1. In the Live Meeting window, click Meeting and then, in the Meeting pane, click the >> button (called the More button).

2. Click Exit and End Meeting.

Note The process to exit a Live Meeting is the same whether you are in a scheduled Live Meeting or a Meet Now meeting. You can also exit (but not end) a meeting by clicking the X button (the Close button) in the upper-right corner of the Live Meeting window.

The Live Meeting Client

The display and position of Live Meeting panes can be adjusted to suit the preferences of the presenter or the participant. You can click drag any pane by its title bar to any location on your screen — even outside of the Live Meeting window.

The following table describes the different panes in the Live Meeting client.

Use this pane	To do this
Content	Upload and share content in the presentation area. Presenters can also create native Live Meeting content by using a Whiteboard, Web Page, Poll Page, Text Page, or Snapshot.
Attendees	Manage participants in a Live Meeting. The presenter can view the list of attendees and interact with the participants. A presenter can also use this pane to change the status of attendees between Mute and Unmute and to manage other collaborative permissions.
Voice & Video	Manage audio and video in a Live Meeting.
Q&A	Manage questions from attendees. In the Live Meeting service, the question and answer log can be saved by the presenter as a report in either HTML or plain text format.
Meeting	Invite additional attendees, manage meeting access via the Meeting lobby, and lock or end a meeting. Both presenters and attendees can view meeting information and also exit the meeting by using the Meeting pane.
Recording	Record a Live Meeting so that its content — audio, video, and data — is available both to invitees who were unable to attend the meeting and to all attendees for later reference. Depending on the implementation of Live Meeting, presenters can save a recording to a location on their desktop or to a location that is easily accessible by others.

Upload content into a Live Meeting

Do either of the following:

Drag presentation content into the Live Meeting Content pane or the main presentation area.

In the Live Meeting window, click Content, click Share, and then click Upload File (View Only). Browse to the appropriate document, and then click Open. In the Upload File (View Only) dialog box, click Continue.

Navigate through uploaded material

Use any of the following controls:

The Previous and Next arrows in the lower-left corner of the Live Meeting window.

The Thumbnails pane, accessed from the Content pane. Click any thumbnail to display that slide in the main presentation area. This is a good way to move to a slide that is out of sequence.

The CTRL key and the keyboard arrow keys.

Share resources in a meeting

Do one of the following:

Share a program with other attendees Make sure that the program is open on your computer. Then, in the Content pane, click Share. Point to Share a Program, and then select an open program.

Share your entire desktop In the Content pane, click Share. Point to Share Your Desktop, and then select either All to share the entire desktop or Selected Area to share only the area enclosed by the Sharing Frame.

Note An attendee can edit a shared document only if the presenter grants the attendee permission. However, the attendee cannot edit the content of an uploaded document, because an uploaded document is opened as read-only.

Record a Live Meeting

1. Click Recording in the Live Meeting window.

2. Do one of the following:

o To save the recording in the Live Meeting service, click To Service.

o To save the recording to your computer, click To My Computer.

To change what is recorded and where it is recorded, click Options.

3. Note The visibility of the To My Computer and To Service tabs depends on the deployment of Live Meeting in your organization. If your company uses Office Communications Server 2007 to deploy Live Meeting, the To Service tab does not appear in the Recording pane.

4. Click Record.

Note Live Meeting service users can create personal recordings only if the Live Meeting administrator and the meeting organizer have assigned the users permission to create personal recordings, and if the meeting uses computer audio.

Final Reflection

aliaa — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:06:16 +0000

Before

To complete activity Module 3 I start with searching the net by using Google and Yahoo search engine. I found a few short online courses in Microsoft website which were quite interesting and the course that I have selected was one of the latest short courses available in Microsoft website. Selected course is designed to allow people to communicate and collaborate online via Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007.

The first impression of the course (communication and collaboration via web) captured my attention and made me curious as I have already experienced chatting online via yahoo and hotmail messenger. With use of Microsoft Office Live Meeting we as TAFE teachers are capable of communicating and collaborating online in real time and share information and knowledge instantly not just in NSW (New South Wales) or Australian wide but all over the world.

During

The course appeared to be well structured. From the course ‘Homepage’, navigation is possible to any part of the course. This appears to add a good feature to the course. There are a number of interesting graphics included (one link below) and on nearly every page there are flash animations illustrating various aspects of Live Meeting which made the learning experience lot easier (just in time learning).

The course had five self-paced lessons and three practice sessions for hands-on experience. At the end of each section there were five interactive multiple choice questions. These questions mark themselves and offer feedback to the participant. This immediate feedback is a great way to judge how you are going with the content before moving on to the next section. The content appears to be aimed at a level were a typical person with minimal computer skills can understand. The technical jargon that is offered in many texts has been omitted and simplifications made. A quick reference card was issued which people could take away from the course for future references.

The course was very useful in which I could encourage my colleagues via e-mail to learn Microsoft Live Meeting so we could arrange meeting online and create conferences which allows many people to access the conference and share their knowledge and information.

The teaching method (online) was quite good in the sense that I like to learn in my own time (self paste learning). Therefore the course delivery method was good and successful.

After

By the end of the course I had a very good understanding of:

Ø How download and set up Microsoft Live Meeting in my computer.

Ø How to join a live meeting

Ø Join the audio and video in a live meeting

Ø Configure the conferencing add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook

Ø Schedule a live meeting that is supported by Office Communications Server 2007.

Ø Schedule a live meeting that is supported by the live meeting service.

Ø Exit or end a live meeting.

Ø Upload content into a live meeting.

Ø Navigate through uploaded material.

Ø Record a live meeting for future play back.

In conclusion I found the course very productive and referring to above outcome from the course I could state that the course achieved the stated learning objectives, the course was well structured and provided me with plenty of information to develop and construct relative knowledge on the subject.

Course Evaluation

aliaa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:01:26 +0000

Course Title:	communicate and collaborate via the Web
Course Provider:	Microsoft
Stated course objectives or outcomes:	Join a Live Meeting. Schedule a Live Meeting. Start a Live Meeting. Lead a Live Meeting. Record a Live Meeting
Achievement of outcomes:	Yes
Stated course duration:	50 min	Actual course duration:	50 m
Administration:
Were you provided with any support contact details?		Yes	Did you need to contact admin support?
Materials:
Were you supplied with any support materials?	Yes	If Yes, what materials? Quick Reference Card
Were you issued with a certificate?	No
Technology:
Did you have any issues with any of the technology used by this course? NO
Virtual Classroom:
Which components of the virtual classroom did the course offer? Did you use any of them? No
Interactivity:
Rate the degree of interactivity:
			High
Feedback:
Was there any feedback during the course? Was it personal? Or Computer generated? Rate the quality of feedback:		Yes No Yes
		Good
Content: Did the content cater to differing learning styles? No How? It was computer generated online course (self paste learning) Was the content logically sequenced and organised? Yes Were there options for different levels of expertise? No Were there any exercises that allowed you to practice skills? Yes Was the content in plain English or jargon? Plain English Was there a “real” facilitator? No How could you make contact with the facilitator if you chose to? Via e-mail or phone
Navigation: Was the navigation of the course content logical? Yes Were there “breadcrumbs”? No Was it simple to navigate to the last point where you had left the course? Yes Did the site have FAQs? Yes Did you use them? Yes Did they help? Yes

The Course Objectives and My Expectations

aliaa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:35:54 +0000

What are the stated course objectives and outcomes?

A direct quote from the Microsoft website is listed below: After completing this course you will be able to:

Ø Join a Live Meeting.

Ø Schedule a Live Meeting.

Ø Start a Live Meeting.

Ø Lead a Live Meeting.

Ø Record a Live Meeting

What are your expectations:

1. What outcomes do you expect to achieve?

I expect to achieve a better understanding of how options are used to manage Live Meetings.

2. What do you expect the learning experience to be like?

I expect my learning experience to be engaging and beneficial.

3. What type of support are you expecting from the course?

Little support should be necessary.

My Preferred Learning Style

aliaa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:34:26 +0000

What do you already know about your preferred learning styles?

I prefer to learn at my own pace and in my own time. As such the jump to eLearning is quite easy.

What influence will your preferred learning styles have on your e-Learning experiences?

My preferred learning style will aid my eLearning experiences.

Assessment 3 Online Course

aliaa — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:53:43 +0000

Today I select a short online course which is compulsory part of assessment activity 3.

The course is about communication and collaboration online via web using Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 allows you to communicate and collaborate via the Web, with colleagues in other offices or countries, in real time online. The course in delivered online for approximately 50 minutes.

this week activity

aliaa — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:07:51 +0000

Today we as a group start to work through module activity guide 3.
We also find a short online course, which hopefully would be done by next week.

edublogs update

aliaa — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:35:02 +0000

After experiencing difficulty logging into my blog for two weeks, I found an appropriate time to reflect on my e-learning experience at UTS during the last two weeks.

I start my e-learning experience at UTS by setting my delicious, netvibe & Edublog and completing my module one from e-learning experiences activity guide. After completion of module one student are divided into different groups to start the module two from the activity guide in wikispaces. unfortunately I couldn’t log into my blog to post my written report on Saturday 06/09/2008.

10 September 2008

Today for the third week, I couldn’t log into my blog to upgrade it. we (module two group)also did some research to complete module two activity assessment on wikispaces. I also updated my delicious and netvibe public pages.

17 September 2008

Today after two consecutive weeks I was not able to sign into my edublog to update it. In some sense when I think about e-learning and attend of delivering the courses online, experiences like this; having difficulty logging into the specific website will raise a question about accountability and reliability of online delivery in my mind. Question like; what if after many hours of time, which spent to generate an online course, the technology fails and prevents people from being able to join that online course?
What if the person or people involve with creating that online course had to go through all that hassle again?
This could be some of the major disadvantages of online delivery.
Cheers for today, hopefully I will be able to log in and add all this information.

e-Learning Activity 1

aliaa — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:43:39 +0000

Activity 1.1 Defining e-Learning

What is e-Learning?

Definitions of new terms are often influenced by their usage in common language – industry and subject matter experts will all offer their meaning on terminology that is evolving with market demands change.

Based on your current knowledge and experience: What is your definition of e-Learning?

§ Any learning that includes the use of (but isn’t necessarily dependent on) computer technology.

§ Transfer of knowledge using technology.

§ Behavioral change.

§ Acquisition of new skills.

Compare your definitions with the following:

“e-Learning is instruction that is delivered electronically, in part or wholly – via a Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator, through the Internet or an intranet, or through multimedia platforms such as CD-ROM or DVD. Increasingly – as higher bandwidth has become more accessible – it has been identified primarily with using the Web, or an intranet’s web, leveraging the Web’s visual environment and interactive nature.”

Brandon Hall, nd, FAQs About e-Learning

http://www.brandonhall.com/public/faqs2/faqs2.htm

“Instructional content or learning experiences delivered or enabled by electronic technology.”

“A Vision of e-Learning for America’s Workforce”, ASTD,

June 2001

Readings:

Reading 1: Tsai, S. & Machado, P. 2002, “e-Learning, Online Learning, Web-based Learning, or Distance Learning: Unveiling the Ambiguity in Current Terminology”, eLearn Magazine, July.

http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&article=6-1

Reading 2: Cher Ping Lim, 2001, “What Isn’t e-Learning?” TechKnowLogia, May/June, pp11-12.

http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?FileType=HTML&ArticleID=267

Reading 3: Downes, S. (2005), “e-Learn 2.0” , eLearn Magazine online

http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1

Reading 4: Taylor, Donald H. (2007) “It’s time to drop e-Learning” TrainingZone.co.uk , 11 July

http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=170224

Review your earlier definition and understanding of e-Learning – now, based on the readings - has your definition altered in any way? Why?

Activity 1.2 Glossary of Terms

Read the article on the following website:

“e-Learning Alphabet Soup: A Guide to Terms”

http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art1_1.htm

Why do you need an e-Learning Glossary?

The main purpose is to up to date with new terminology , acronyms and jargon associated with Web2

Where do you start searching?

Online via search engines (e.g. google, yahoo, etc)

How do you judge their relevance and credibility?

By checking a few different websites

Record the URLs of Glossaries:

http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/

http://www.learningcircuits.org/

http://www.e-learningguru.com/glossary.htm

NB: These URLs will be added to your social bookmarking site later!

New terms I have learnt:

Backbone

§ A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.

Java

Java is a network-friendly programming language invented by Sun Microsystems.

There is a forum set-up in UTSOnline for you to share new words/terms – or to ask the group for definition & clarification of meanings.

Activity 1.3 Technology Options

The following are some of the components used in e-Learning – can you add to this list?

q √Synchronous technologies

q √Asynchronous technologies

q √Video conferencing

q √Online quizzes

q √Email

q √Chat / IM

q √Discussion forums / bulletin boards

q √Web conferencing

q √Interactive TV

q √Simulations

q √Multi-user games

q √Virtual worlds

q √smart board

q √Moodle

q √Wikispaces

Tick the components you have had some experience with.

Can you define them?

If not – use one of your glossaries from Activity 1.2 to find out what they are!

Throughout this subject your lecturer will attempt to arrange a variety of exercises that will employ some of these components.

Methods of delivery:

In your work context:

What experience have you had with e-Learning?

Working with wikki spaces and moddle.

Creating PowerPoint Resources for online delivery.

Describe the methods of delivery you have experienced?

Online delivery

Adobe Connect.

How do these relate to the definitions of e-Learning outlined in the earlier readings?

They are well correlated to the definitions of e-learning

Activity 1.4: Resources: e-Zines, e-Journals, e-Newsletters & weblogs

What is an e-Zine?

Is the short term for electronic magazine. E-zines are web sites that contain articles and other components of typical print magazines.

What is an e-Journal?

An electronic version of a journal that is found and read on the Web

What is an e-Newsletter?

An electronic newsletter, published on-line, often distributed through e-mail to a list of subscribers

Why read other people’s weblogs?

We may find information which could be useful

How do you judge their relevance? Credibility? Authenticity?

Do they link to other sources, their credibility, validity of their information,

Where do you start searching?

Google, yahoo.

How do you subscribe?

RSS them or bookmark them

Useful URLs:

e-Learning Magazine

http://elearnmag.org

Training Magazine

www.trainingmagazine.com

Learning Circuits – ASTD magazine

www.learningcircuits.com

Others…..?

Activity 1.5 Bookmarking and Aggregation

What is social bookmarking?

The ability to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.

How could it be used in this subject?

Students can share their knowledge with each other

Go to the Subject Documents tab in UTSOnline and open the Technology Framework folder.
There is a document called “ Delicious “ - follow the guidelines to create a Delicious account.

Watch this short video from CommonCraft:

http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

What is Aggregation?

The process by which data values are collected with the intent to manage the collection as a single unit

What is RSS?

Really Simple Syndication. A family of web feed formats used in web syndication. These are an XML based system for aggregating information from blogs, news and frequently updated websites

How can these be used in this subject?

By informing students with any changes and keeping them up to date

Go to the Subject Documents tab in UTSOnline and open the Technology Framework folder.

There is a document called “Netvibes” – follow the guidelines to create a Netvibes account.

Activity 1.6 Weblogs

In this subject each student will be using a weblog to publish all their work – including assignments.

A wiki has been set-up to assist you with this process.

Refer to UTSOnline, in the Subject Documents tab, in the Technology Framework folder for a link to this resource.
Activity 1.7 Advantages & Disadvantages of e-Learning

Based on your readings and research so far in this subject –

What do you believe are some of the Advantages of e-Learning?

Convenience and Portability
Cost and Selection
Flexibility
Higher Retention
Greater Collaboration
Global Opportunities

What are some of the Disadvantages of e-Learning?

Learners with low motivation or bad study habits may fall behind
Without the routine structures of a traditional class, students may get lost or confused about course activities and deadlines
Students may feel isolated from the instructor and classmates
Instructor may not always be available when students are studying or need help
Slow Internet connections or older computers may make accessing course materials frustrating
Managing computer files and online learning software can sometimes seem complex for students with beginner-level computer skills
Hands-on or lab work is difficult to simulate in a virtual classroom

We will review your comments throughout the course – make additional entries or amendments whenever you find information that you believe is an advantage or disadvantage to e-Learning.

Read:

“The Benefits and Drawbacks of e-Learning”

http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art1_3.htm

Assignment 1

aliaa — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:13:47 +0000

Followings are my delicious, edublogs and netvibe URL’s for assessment 1.

http://delicious.com/ali_alahmadi

http://aliaa.edublogs.org/

http://www.netvibes.com/aliahmadi#General