Tech Contact Meeting

Randall Miller

November 2, 2009

Agenda

Video Conferencing Wikis Blogs

What Do You What to Know?

Definition

Communicate in real time with two or more people at different locations via video.

Video Conferencing

What do you need?• Camera

• PVX Software

• Microphone

• Speakers

• Projector/Display

Video Conferencing

Museum of Science Museum of History Listservs/Websites:

• Twice / Collaborations

• ATT

• Magpi

Techopedia

Video Conferencing

• Start Small

• Local Schools

• Museums, websites, NASA

Wiki

A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

Wiki: Getting Started

CyberSense - http://blackboard.wcpss.net

Quick Start Guide Settings Privacy Matrix

Wiki: Benefits of a licensed version of a WCPSS PBWorks workspace include:

Premium e-mail support with average response time of 1 hour.

Ability to set custom page level and folder level access.

Use custom color schemes. Import Microsoft Office documents. Search within pages and within uploaded

documents. 40GB of storage space per workspace.

Examples Monster Exchange Project http://villagewiki.pbworks.com/6th+Grade+World+War+II http://villagewiki.pbworks.com/First%20Grade%20Space

%20Page http://harperallenteam.pbworks.com/ http://school-is-cool.pbworks.com/ http://ibgermanculture.pbworks.com/ http://iatoday.pbworks.com/Basic+Skills+Computer+Enric

hment http://racingtheiditarod.pbworks.com/

Blog

Blog is an abbreviated version of Weblog read, write, or edit a shared on-line

journal

Blogs

Examples• http://lionirons42.edublogs.org/

• http://mrferrell.edublogs.org/

Support

http://blogsupport.wcpss.net  for info about the WCPSS purchased version of Edublogs

The "Board Policies and Related Settings" document will guide you in setup:  http://blogsupport.wcpss.net/downloads/edublogs-blog-settings.pdf

Nuts & Bolts The teacher will remain the admin of every student blog. Students should not be the admin of any blog. They

should be contributors or editors. Student user accounts will need to use their NCWISE Id

number for their username and students must use a WCPSS e-mail address

WCPSS e-mail accounts for students are simple to request: Principal must e-mail the help desk and indicate the teacher's name/class or indicate "whole school" if they want accounts for all students. No other information is needed. Information required for the accounts is pulled from NCWISE for them.