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This document provides information to jump start your effective use of Lecture123. We suggest installing Lecture123 and obtaining your user account now. Users tell us that the best way to learn Lecture123 is to start recording and playing back sessions while reviewing the documentation. Please feel free to email us at support@lecture123.com with any questions - we pride ourselves in helping you maximize your Lecture123 experience.

Introducing Lecture123

Simply put, Lecture123 allows instructors to present/record sessions with voice, PowerPoint and whiteboard slides, and annotations. Publish the session for collaborative playback on the web, anytime, anyplace. Students click to ask questions during playback. Questions with instructors' answers are seamlessly integrated into the original presentation benefiting all participants. All content including slide and questions/answers (QA) is searchable, e.g. as a study tool.

The Lecture123 product suite includes: (a) Presenter program to present, record, and publish content; (b) web content management, usage monitoring, search, and delivery platform; (c) Player with streamed playback and collaboration; (d) podcasted content delivery, e.g. for playback on audio and video iPods.

Lecture123 works on most computers, e.g. Windows, Macs, Linux. To record you need a microphone (built-in to most laptops). You may annotate your presentation with a mouse, tablet pen, or intelligent whiteboard. Playback requires a headset or speakers.

• Easy to use: Record, Publish, Playback, Collaborate, Search.
• An engaging interactive asynchronous audio/visual experience: you chose the time and place.
• Publish the presentation, not the presenter.
• Participants "taste the learning and information exchange process".
• Exploits community collaboration with interactive exchange.

Faculty First Steps

See also Student Jump Start First Steps

1. Your Lecture123 Community: If you do not have a community, then please complete the new community request form and wait for someone from Lecture123 to respond that the community is ready for use. You may play with Lecture123 until then by using the free Demo community (key is demo).
2. Install Lecture123: follow instructions on the install web page.
3. Create Your User Account: go to the create account web page, select your community, enter the key and the rest of the information. The community name and key are typically provided to you by the owner of the community (e.g. your instructor). Note: the free trial community is Demo with the key demo.
4. Start recording, publishing, playing back, podcasting, collaborating: review the Getting Started Web Page.

Getting Started Resources

• START HERE: Getting Started Web Page -- Answers to common questions. This is your best starting place.
• Lecture123 User Manual -- An excellent reference. We highly recommend that you review this document to become familiar with all the features of Lecture123 and the process workflow. Contains screenshots with tutorial text.
• Installing Lecture123
• Your Lecture123 Community
• Create Your Lecture123 Account
• Hands On Tour -- This self guided tutorial is an excellent way to step through most of the typical uses including recording, publishing, playing back, asking and answering questions, and searches.
• Watch a Lecture123 Demo -- Mitch Germansky, Lecture123 CEO, demo Lecture123 (28 minutes) (requires RealPlayer).
• Podcasting -- All your sessions can be made available for audio and/or video podcasts.
• Support -- We are available to answer any questions to make your use of Lecture123 a success. Please contact us via email to support@lecture123.com.

Usage Overview

This quick tutorial will get you started using Lecture123. Please review the Lecture123 User Manual to see screenshots and details for these steps.

Install Lecture123 on your computer and create a user account using your community key. Login to Lecture123 in your web browser.

• Playback a session...
  Click on "Play" in the blue toolbar and click on a lecture name link on that page. This will launch the Lecture123 Player. Click the "Play" button in the Player once it loads on your computer. You may right-click your mouse on any slide location and "Ask a Question". Click on the "podcast" link on"Play" page to subscribe to podcasts.
   
  
• Recording sessions...
  Click "Record" in the blue toolbar, and click the "Presenter" to start the recording program. Record a quick test session, and publish it perhaps into a folder named "test" in your community. Click "Play" in the blue toolbar and click the name of your published session. During playback right-click your mouse to "Ask a Question". Exit the player and click on the URL in an email you get for the question asked. Answer and approve the question and play the session again so you can see the QA embedded in the original session. Finally, click "Search" in the blue toolbar and find a word that was on a slide or in a QA. Enable podcasts when you publish your recorded session; subscribe by clicking "podcast" on the "Play" page.

Engaging Your Students

Engage your students with a 10 minute demo of Lecture123. Explain the process, record a quick session, and publish it. Playback that session with the class and show them how to ask questions. Answer the questions and play the session again so they can see the QAs embedded in the original session. Finally, do a search based on some word that was on a slide or in a QA. Encourage students to use the QA feature as a new method of collaborating with the instructor. Discuss the ability to get podcasts of published sessions - students are very excited with the mobile playback of Lecture123 sessions on their iPods.

You may want to share the Student Jump Start with your class.

Uses

Lecture123 is used in traditional face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses. We see an increasing set of pedagogies. You can decide what works best for your courses.

Communities

Lecture123 defines a community as a pool of user accounts with access only to content within that community's repository.

• Organizes and partitions content.
• Protects sessions allowing access only to authorized users.
• Each community has a unique name and key.
• Instructors give their community name/key to students wh self-register into that community.

Academic Results

Here's a summary of results collected in user surveys which may help guide your use of Lecture123:

• Students stop taking notes in class and become active learners.
• Reduces office hours for professors.
• Identifies and remediates areas of student confusion before giving the exam.
• Allows sharing of good questions and answers with all students at any time.
• Creates time to explore selected topics in more depth with the class.
• Saves valuable in-class lectures for reuse next semester.
• Allows users to privately replay presentations and improve lecture techniques, e.g. professional development.
• Engages students outside the classroom.
• Facilitates instructor/student relationships through QA capability.
• Permits instructor to maintain the course schedule independent of student absences or snow days.
• Offers all students the ability to learn at their own pace without changing the current teaching model.

Academic References

The following Lecture123 feedback sessions from faculty and instructional design users provide insights of how and why others are using Lecture123 (note: you will need to enroll your user account in the Demo (key is demo) community to playback these sessions):

• Educause Mid-Atlantic Conference, 1/2006. David Radosevich, PhD, Montclair State University, Prof. Dept. Management & Philosophy
• Hybrid Course Development, 1/2006. David Buck, MEd, Burlington Community College, English Instructor
• Instructional Design Perspective, 10/2005. Patricia Kahn, Montclair State University, Manager Instructional Training & Design, PhD candidate Instructional Design & Online Learning
• Faculty Perspective, 10/2005. Joan Nix, PhD, Queens College, CUNY, Associate Chair, Economics Dept.

We wish you an excellent experience using Lecture123. Please contact us at support@lecture123.com with any questions. Thank you.