1. If you’ve arrived early Don’t forget to do the Audio Setup Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard

2. INTRODUCTIONS Helen Hodges eLearning Adviser (Technologies) Paul Richardson eLearning Adviser (ACL)

3. Making the Connections Managing information streams with RSS and Yahoo Pipes

4. Aims of this session To provide a brief introduction to Elluminate. To explore ways of managing your desktop to enable you to take control of the information you receive and to make new professional connections.

5. Introducing Elluminate

6. Some Alternatives to Elluminate

7. audio video screen sharingapplication sharing text chat presentation whiteboard quiz virtual classroom management type tools file sharingrecord sessions Typical Features breakout rooms

8. Using Chat FONT TOO SMALL? Right-click in each box and choose Make text bigger or Make text smaller or Text Size POST A MESSAGE TO THE GROUP Type your Chat message in the box and press Send Chat messages will appear in the box above. REMEMBER: Everyone in the room will see your message. POST A MESSAGE TO AN INDIVIDUAL/MODERATOR Send messages to individuals or the Moderators: Use the drop-down to find the person you want to send you message to before you press Send

9. SAVE A COPY OF THE PRESENTATION Save a copy of the presentation: select whiteboard and change the file type to pdf Ask questions – raise your hand Use the emoticons! This helps the presenter! Happy, Confused, Round of applause, Thumbs-down Yes/No response – your results are shown against your name. Need to step away for a few minutes? Click this when you leave, and again when you return. Interaction Tools

10. Aims of this session To provide a brief introduction to Elluminate. To explore ways of managing your desktop to enable you to take control of the information you receive and to make new professional connections.

11. RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video.

12. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds

13. How do you rate RSS as a way of managing information? Poll A.I love it! I use it all t he time B.I have set up an account and sometimes use it C.I have heard about it, but never used it D.I hadn’t heard of it until today

14. Some RSS Readers… Google Reader Feedburner Bloglines Etc……….

16. http://bit.ly/h0TtYp

17. Pause for thought Are you already using RSS. If do you have any useful hints for new users?

18. RSS Part 2 http://screenr.com/ESb

19. What will you do as a result of this session 1: RSS? Poll A.I will use RSS more often B.I will continue to use it as before C.I don’t plan to use RSS D.Undecided

20. Yahoo Pipes Creating your first pipe

21. Following up…. Howard Rheingold. “Finding information that matters is probably the most important thing in my professional life…” http://vlog.rheingold.com/index.php/site/video/introduction-to-rss/

22. What will you do as a result of this session? 2: Yahoo Pipes Poll A.I will use Yahoo Pipes more often B.I will continue to use it as before C.I don’t plan to use Yahoo Pipes D.Undecided

23. Conclusions

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