A presentation to use adobe connect to delivery some "hard" courses via online teaching.

1. Adobe Connect – The Tool to
Move the Classroom Online
Department of Computer Science
Dr. Qi Zhu

2. Adobe Connect
 An Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional
meeting is a live online conference for
multiple users.
 Web-based Audio & Video Conferencing
 eLearning
 Desktop Sharing
 Digital Collaboration
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3. Adobe Connect
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4. Meeting Room Pods
 Share pod: Displays shared content from the
presenter’s computer (including windows, applications, or
the entire desktop), documents, or whiteboards.
 Attendee List pod: Displays the name, role, and status
of each attendee, and allows the host to change an
attendee’s role or permissions.
 Chat pod: Allows attendees to send chat messages to
other attendees.
 Q & A pod: Linked to Chat pod. Redirects questions
from the Chat pod to appropriate presenters.
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5. Meeting Room Pods (Cont)
 Note pod: Displays text messages from hosts or
presenters to all attendees.
 Camera And Voice pod: Allows hosts, presenters, and
participants with appropriate permissions to broadcast
live audio and video to all attendees.
 File Share pod: Allows hosts and presenters to post files
which can be downloaded by attendees.
 Poll pod: Allows hosts and presenters to conduct polls
or ask questions of attendees.
 Web Links pod: Lets host post a web link and force all
attendees to browse to that link.
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6. Classes To Use
 COSC 3331/3333, Data Structures and
Algorithms.
 Math background: logarithm, exponential,
induction, series, etc.
 Some math algorithms are introduced:
sorting algorithms, recursion
 Data structures are covered: stack, queue,
priority queue, tree, hash table, etc
 Using Java programming language to
introduce the above topics.
 Hard courses to put ONLINE.
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7. Objectives to Achieve
 To give students a virtual
environment as the same way in the
physical classroom.
 teacher’s presentation
 class discussions (Q & A)
 real-time help on assignments
(office hours)
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8. Teaching Method
 To present the lectures using share
rod.
 lectures in audio.
 give examples using whiteboard,
or drawing on tablets.
 show programs or running results
 record the meeting for those who
cannot come.
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9. Teaching Method (cont)
 in-class labs, discussions and Q & A
 hold a virtual office hour also in Connect
 using whiteboard to answer questions
 Teacher could share applications,
documents, programs to explain the
content.
 Student could share their programs or
labs to me to ask questions during lectures
or online labs, teacher could help them to
find problems, even debug the programs.
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10. Feedbacks
 A virtual classroom feels nearly the same
as physical classrooms.
 Rapid multi-media and audio are displayed
at real-time proficiency. Recordings are
available at any time. Though Video could
be slow sometimes.
 Comparable easy to use, even it has a
learning curve.
 It is successful .
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11. Examples
 http://breeze.uhv.edu/p15765655/
 http://breeze.uhv.edu/p67098267/
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