Breeze Meeting™

Jim Flowers

This page:
http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/rlo/breezemeeting.htm

Breeze Meeting™ (is now Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional™)
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/
Overview at http://www.adobe.com/education/products/acrobatconnect.html

• Two-way audio video conferencing over the Internet

• Includes chat, whiteboard, URL pushing, polling, and more

• Allows remote control of an application

• Audio video archive can be recorded from a meeting and viewed later

Two Breeze Products?

• Breeze Meeting™ is not Breeze Presenter™, which allows you to create voice-over, animated presentation using MS PowerPoint™.

At Ball State

• We use the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS) to establish Breeze Meeting Rooms and provide support.

• http://www.ihets.org/progserv/dms/meeting/Overview.html

• To request a Breeze Meeting Room for an upcoming class or for other reasons, contact the BSU Office of Teaching and Learning Advancement (OTLA).

My Ball State classes

• Online

• Graduate

• Emphasizing Cognitive Discussion

• Using Blackboard

• Reusable HTML Learning Objects

My students and I now use Breeze Meeting™ used for

• Office Hours

• Collaborative Group Meeting (with the instructor to start things off)

• Unmonitored Collaborative Group Meeting

Assistance

Reusable Learning Object on Breeze Meeting™

See http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/rlo/510prep.htm

Menu

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Learning Object: http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/rlo/breeze.htm

Instructions on Assignments Page

How to use Breeze Meeting™

See the learning object at:

http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/rlo/breeze.htm#Using 

My approach

• Two large monitors (one for sharing only, reset to 800 x 600)

• DV camera into computer

• Headset

• Laptop to see what students see

Set

• Black curtain

• Lights

• Anti-reflective glasses

• Water

• Notepad

• Phone

Prep

• Think through and plan discussion issues

• Allow guest access (risky)

• Promote guests to presenters

• Optimize room bandwidth

• Adjust audio level

• Set Monitor 2 to 800 x 600

• Increase browser font size

• Prep pods as needed

Endnote

Let's not let any technological tool hold us hostage. Instead, let's use it to expand our capabilities.