Best Practices for Adobe Connect Meeting: Ingredients for the Best Online Meeting Experience
Summary: In this session, participants will learn best practices in ensuring the best experience possible for Adobe Connect Meeting hosts and participants. They will learn:
1. how to configure an Adobe Connect meeting room for best clarity for online participants
2. create and deploy multiple layouts for a session
3. dos and don'ts to running a Connect online meeting parallel with a face-to-face meeting
4. tips and tricks for avoiding technical problems
5. how to best customize and deploy Connect meeting pods for specific session purposes
Description:
Professionals in the Instructional Development Center (IDC) has been using Adobe Connect Meeting for the past few years for many purposes:
- to record meetings, brownbags, and showcases,
- to host question-and-answer sessions, demonstrations, and lead synchronous online workshops, and
- to conduct consultations with faculty from their offices, troubleshoot problems with staff and faculty about Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) services, and to host learning materials and links needed for face-to-face training.
As a result, IDC has some stories to tell - and some expertise to share in the use of Adobe Connect Meeting, for a large variety of situations and settings.
IDC staff have collected what they have learned while using Adobe Connect Meeting and will share it during this session. Best practices for configuring meeting rooms, customizing meeting pods, and conducting online meetings will be shared. Specific recommendations will be made for typical online teaching, presentation, and sharing situations. Participants should come away with new ideas on how to use Connect.
- to record meetings, brownbags, and showcases,
- to host question-and-answer sessions, demonstrations, and lead synchronous online workshops, and
- to conduct consultations with faculty from their offices, troubleshoot problems with staff and faculty about Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) services, and to host learning materials and links needed for face-to-face training.
As a result, IDC has some stories to tell - and some expertise to share in the use of Adobe Connect Meeting, for a large variety of situations and settings.
IDC staff have collected what they have learned while using Adobe Connect Meeting and will share it during this session. Best practices for configuring meeting rooms, customizing meeting pods, and conducting online meetings will be shared. Specific recommendations will be made for typical online teaching, presentation, and sharing situations. Participants should come away with new ideas on how to use Connect.
Donalee Attardo
Senior Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Senior Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Donalee Attardo is a Senior Educational Technologist for the Instructional Development Center in Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT). She assumes many responsibilities in coordinating, developing, and delivering training on a variety of topics in instructional design and technology. She is a Blackboard Vista Certified Trainer, and provides regular consulting with faculty on Blackboard Vista and instructional design, as well as other TLT technologies, such as Adobe Acrobat Connect, Turnitin, and many others.
Hans Aagard
Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Hans Aagard is an Educational Technologist for Purdue University, where he has worked for a year. His responsibilities include training and consulting on Blackboard, Connect, and other distance education tools. He also manages a student trainer program. He received a Masters of Science from Purdue University in Educational Technology.
Sangeetha Khichadia
Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Sangeetha Khichadia is an Educational Technologist with Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) at Purdue University. Ms. Khichadia has extensive experience working with faculty and staff in integrating technology towards creating hybrid and distance learning classes. Her background in computer science combined with her expertise in instructional design concepts, allow her to design and develop online instructional materials in addition to successfully evaluating instructional technologies. She has developed various web-based instructional materials and presented at several conferences about online learning.