Students as Hosts?
Tue, 10/23/2007 - 11:01am — eab14
In January, we will be offering a graduate course where students will present a topic to the instructor/other students using Adobe Connect and record their presentation for later viewing.
Is there any reason why we CAN'T make each student a host of the room so that they can each retrieve the URL of their recording to post on their blog? We will have 12 students (max) or less.
Or, is there another easy way for the student to record and retrieve the URL?
Students May Be Hosts -- No Problem
Students may be assigned Adobe Connect rooms with Host permissions. The Penn State license does not limit the number of meeting rooms that may be created, nor does it limit who may be given Host permissions in a meeting room. The only limit on our license is for the number of people who can create and own meeting rooms.
You can either create one meeting room and make everyone in the room a Host, or you can create a separate meeting room for each user. There are pros and cons for each method. If you decide to have multiple Hosts in one room, be aware that anyone and everyone will be able to modify the room as well as upload and delete files.
Continuing the "Students as Hosts" discussion...
Yvonne,
Thanks for the reply! You mentioned pros and cons for all students being a host in one room or each student having their own room. I can think of a few...but I am wondering if you would expand on those pros and cons for me so that I am sure to have a complete list?
Thanks,
Beth
Pros and Cons of Student Rooms
Multiple Rooms:
Pros: Each person has control of just their own stuff, can upload and delete files without worrying about causing problems for others, can design customized layouts, can use the room anytime without having to schedule the time with others, and can be assured of privacy when meeting with people in the room as the room can be set so that no one else can enter unless they are invited. Also, when making recordings, you don't need to have a naming convention to be able to tell the recordings apart (sorry, I don't remember if recording names have to be unique or not -- if they do, then you run the risk of someone accidentally recording over someone else's work if more than one person is using the room....).
Cons: Just like working one-on-one with each student takes more time than working with groups of students , having one room per student can take a lot more time to manage and be a lot for an instructor to keep track of than having just a single room. If the students are making recordings of their meetings, the instructor will have to go to a different place for each student to view the recordings (since the students don't "own" the rooms, they aren't able to move files to a single folder -- the instructor would have to do that herself). In addition, each student working alone means less sharing of knowledge when learning to use Adobe connect. Having others to work with makes learning Adobe Connect easier -- trying to figure things out all by yourself can be challenging.
Single Room:
Pros: Easier to manage content, everything is in one location
Cons: (reverse the "Pros" above) Students would have to schedule time to use the room so that multiple people weren't trying to use the tools at the same time. There is a risk of someone doing something (accidentally) to destroy the work of another. It would be difficult to have customized layouts as it would become cumbersome to manage, etc.
If I was teaching a class and having students use Adobe Connect, I think I would, at a minimum, pair students so I only had half as many rooms to manage. Pairs would be able to work with each other to schedule time in the room more easily than a larger group and would be able to coordinate recording names, content, and layout designs more easily as well.
Other thoughts?