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Welcome to the RSC WM Big Blue Button Web conferencing session

Welcome to the RSC WM Big Blue Button Web conferencing session. What’s occurring? Give me a caption for this picture in chat (right hand side of your screen). SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE?. Think about how easy you find it to use Are some things distracting or frustrating?

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Welcome to the RSC WM Big Blue Button Web conferencing session

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  1. Welcome to the RSC WM Big Blue Button Web conferencing session

  2. What’s occurring? Give me a caption for this picture in chat (right hand side of your screen)

  3. SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE? • Think about how easy you find it to use • Are some things distracting or frustrating? • What does big Blue Button do well? • What features are poor or missing? • Consider the technical side …

  4. Web conferencing etiquette • Do share comments in the chat during the session • Use Q in chat before you add a question to highlight your question to the moderator • If you reply directly to a persons comment use @and thier name eg @colleen • If you would like to use your mic put up your hand first • Use the mic when you are invited by name

  5. Introductions… Please tell us in 1 minute: • Name, job title, place of work • Why you are interested in Big Blue Button and/or web conferencing • Your experience of web conferencing before today (briefly) Pass on to the next person in the delegate list

  6. About BigBlueButton Features • shared chat, presentation, audio, video, and desktop* • Presenter annotation and mouse pointer • Audience hands-up facility • PDF, presentation & office documents* can be uploaded • Sessions can be recorded* (presentation, audio & chat) Objectives • to provide remote learners with a high-quality learning experience. • May suit other purposes…

  7. Spot the Difference… Show thumbnails Upload file Show drawing tools

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  9. Can I uploaded Microsoft Office 2007 documents to BigBlueButton ? • BigBlueButtonuses OpenOffice 3.2 for converting Microsoft Office documents into PDF for display in BigBlueButton. • Office 2003 documents convert well; however, Office 2007 and Office 2010 documents (such as .pptx) are problematic with OpenOffice 3.2. In particular, the font alignment is not precise. • If you are using Office 2007, we recommend using Microsoft's free download to enable an Office 2007 to save any document to PDF: download link. • You'll always get the best results with PDF.

  10. A little bit of history • In 2007 Carleton University, Canada  wanted a way to reach distance learners effectively without huge expense. • As the university taught engineers to be entrepreneurs a post-graduate student was challenged to create an open source web conferencing system for the university. • He succeeded, the project expanded beyond the University and a BBB community began to develop around the world.

  11. Press the (Big Blue) Button 2010 • Google provided funding for two developers • Moving to GitHub for source code made it easier for developers around the world to contribute 2011 • December BigBlueButtonproject was invited to join WebFWD - Mozillasaccelerator program to support open innovation on the web. “ we want to make BBB the best open source web conferencing software in the world!” Carlton University (creators of Big Blue Button)

  12. BigBlueButton2012 Milestones • Subscribers to the bigbluebutton-developer mailing list: 1203 • Twitter followers: 1043 • Watchers on developers hub (GitHub) 389 • Forks (new contributors) on GitHub: 284 • Weekly downloads 700(average) • launch of the bigbluebutton-espanol mailing listdue to significant interest in Spain • BigBlueButton version 0.8 released 18 June

  13. Coming soon: BigBlueButton0.81 Current developments underway: • Improving capture (recording) of all events in the presentation area (including webcams) • Support for students with disabilities • Addition of text tool for the whiteboard • Layout manager, to ensure fit to screen and uploaded documents are readable (iframes)

  14. Plans for Version 1.0 • Modularity - to enable other developers to easily create and integrate their own modules and use cut down elements eg just IM chat • Integratation • with popular IM systems egJabber (chat) • with H.263 – allowing joining with other commercial conferencing systems • Mobile support - Android, BlackBerry and iPhone/iPadclient • Improved accessibility • More language support - including right to left languages • Whiteboard playback

  15. The JISC SWEET Project Synchronous Web Enabled Employee Training (SWEET) Learning and teaching innovation fund, Jan - Dec 2011 Used BigBlueButton to allow distance learners to join the classroom Objectives To overcome Workbasedlearning inherent difficulties: 1) limited access to direct tutor support; 2) efficiency of delivery for small numbers of learners; 3) the quality of the learning experience for isolated students. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/swaniltig/sweet.aspx

  16. Moodle/BigBlueButtonat Jewel & Esk College – SWEET Project • Fully operational College since April 2011 • Tested in the REHIS Elementary Food Hygiene course • Simultaneously delivery to classroom-based cohorts and remote students participating in the class via BigBlueButton, with Moodle used to support elements of course delivery. • 24 of the 25 students on the course passed

  17. BigBlueButtonJoins WebFWD • WebFWD(“Web Forward”) is Mozilla’s Open Innovation program. • it support Open Source projects which extend the Web — providing participants with mentorship from industry experts, • access to the Mozilla global network, • infrastructure and other world-class resources.

  18. Talking about Big Blue Button The interface feels slick and less clunky than some other systems I’ve used. It may lack some of the bells and whistles of those systems, but in my experience, they are tools that are less often needed in remote presentations. Steve Boneham Learning Technologist at JISC Netskills

  19. BBB could be hosted on Janet 2Gb free server space (need to speak to Robert Prabuki to see which sectors can use this service, probably just FE & 6FC) • BBB will integrate with Moodle  • It has a really nice translator built into the chat facility (good for ESOL or language courses) • Simple interface, now includes record facility (with extra installation of recordingsbn) Malcolm Bodley, E-Learning Advisor (FE) RSC Eastern

  20. What’s important to you and why? Describe facilities in terms of essential, desirable, not necessary for your use

  21. Good practice in web conferencing 5 minute min debate • What do you think? • What is most important – the golden rules? • Put your hand up for the mic or type in chat

  22. SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE? What have you concluded? • Think about how easy you find it to use • Are some things distracting or frustrating? • What does big Blue Button do well? • What features are poor or missing? • Consider the technical side …

  23. Big Blue Button review no

  24. Online Solutions Webinars • BigBlueButton Resources will be on our event wiki by tomorrow: go to our website, events page 2. Anymeetingweb conferencing cloud solution Thursday 4 October 12-1.30 book now 3. AutoViewlecture capture and live communications in the VLE Thursday 11 October 12-1.30 • Booking should be available on our website from Tuesday

  25. Go to our website: http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/westmidlands.aspx Events tab, event wiki

  26. Find out more • www.bigbluebutton.org • Big Blue Button overview & instructive videos • Demo area – try BBB again yourself • Techical details, wiki & download • Follow BigBlueButton on Twitter • SWEET Project • On Slideshare • Getting to grips with web-conferencing - RSC WM event resources

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