SLAV Elluminate training
June 12, 2009 by slav
For School Library Association of Victoria members who are interested in learning how to use this online conferencing system, there are a number of sessions planned in Melbourne and regional areas of Victoria. SLAV plans to deliver professional development online via Elluminate in terms 3 and 4.
You are welcome to attend meetings as well as participate in the revision session planned for Thursday 25th June. All links for sessions are above, however the training session links are only accessible on the day and time of the training. Please be aware that if you plan to attend a meeting and/or revision session you will need a set of headphones/microphone and depending on the school network, may need to bring your laptop with Elluminate already installed on it. Please contact your branch convenor for clarification. To install Elluminate on your laptop and/or desktop, click here and follow the prompts.
Some more Elluminate resources are accessible below:
Further sessions will be scheduled for areas not yet listed.
[...] To provide another taster as to why these ladies are so exciting, visit http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/our-new-netvibes-research-pathfinder-iran-election-and-riots-2009/ During the recent Iran riots the mainstream media was slow to provide coverage on the election results. However, Joyce shows how Netvibes, a free Web 2.0 tool can be utilized to manage information from social networks brimming with the latest news. Joyce uses Netvibes to construct a pathfinder that includes YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Tweets, delicious bookmarks, and Google News. These Web 2.0 tools show new and exciting ways to collaborate with other Library professionals around the world, to manage our own profession learning; and also to assist students with research. The Eluminate technology used in this panel discussion also deserves mention. Video-conferencing tools offer ways to link students and staff to our global world. Eluminate is interactive and participants attending the virtual conference at the time it is held can send messages to the presenter/s from any capable computer. The presenters can respond to questions throughout their presentation. Eluminate can show where people are logged in from all over the world, and even how warm it is there. Virtual attendees can vote live during the presentation to share opinions, and use emoticons to show reactions and hand icons to clap. Viewers anywhere in the world can even take over the microphone and participate live in the presentation. This is not an advertisement for this software, as there may be similar products, but it reveals exciting learning opportunities for the future and not so distant future. The School Library Association of Victoria has recently been offering training in this software, so the future has already made its way to Australia. http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2009/06/12/slav-elluminate-training/ [...]