Held Friday afternoons in Turing Auditorium, Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford community. These sessions are intended for power users, Expert Partners, and those with IT responsibilities, but are open to everyone - faculty, staff, and students. The Tech Briefings, led by knowledgeable IT Services staff or other IT professionals, run from 2:00 to 3:30 P.M. No registration is required - just come on by and learn something new. No fees. No fuss. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/ Networking uses a number of tools to troubleshoot various networking problems. This class presents a brief intro to these tools and how they are used. Find out how to troubleshoot DHCP problems, network slowness, and other topics. Feedback is welcome as we have been updating the LNA Guide with a list of useful tools. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb1 Web-based video content has become an important means of sharing information to a diverse and sophisticated audience. Whether via Stanford on iTunes or as part of a streaming media solution on your web site, maximizing benefit from your investment in time and resources means that providing captioning and transcripts is fast becoming a must-do production task. Find out about the technologies involved, and learn how to create captioned materials, either by doing it yourself or outsourcing through existing on-campus production channels. Discover why captioned video not only aids those with auditory impairments, but makes your video more valuable to researchers and search engines and increases the shelf life of your video content. REMEMBER: Universal Accessibility benefits all. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb2 Screencast software (such as Captivate, Camtasia, and Snapz Pro) is used for a wide variety of reasons: * creating engaging animated demonstrations of web-based tools, software, and hardware for training purposes * adding voice and/or video to PowerPoint Presentations * demonstrating processes and tasks for other employees including temporary employees or to serve as a procedural manual Come see Mark Branom demonstrate three of the most commonly used screencast tools -- Captivate, Camtasia, and Snapz Pro. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb3 April 27: No Tech Briefing (All Day Security Class) http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb4 Chris Lundin (IT Services) and Eric Montoya (WebEx), will demo and answer questions about the WebEx tools that can be licensed on campus. There are over 170 licensed WebEx user on campus already. WebEx software can facilitate: * holding "virtual meetings" without traveling across campus, * gathering groups quickly to review materials, * leveraging colleagues at other institutions, * delivering real-time lectures, demos, and presentations, * providing virtual office hours, * quick-response remote desktop support assistance, and * cross-functional group collaboration http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb5 Podcasting has become the most cost-effective and efficient way to distribute digital audio and video files over the Web. By subscribing to podcasts, listeners can consume the information presented whenever they need to, not just whenever a broadcaster decides to present it. Faculty can deliver educational content for listening or viewing on a computer or iPod, freeing learning from the constraints of the traditional physical classroom. Staff can use podcasts to deliver informational content about their department or group, to provide news about events in the department, and to disseminate other information in an engaging manner. In this presentation, Mark Branom (IT Services) and a panel of experts -- Jeremy Sabol (Center for Teaching and Learning), Kim Hayworth (Academic Computing), and Scott Stocker (University Communications) -- will discuss some of the techniques and basic tools to create, edit, and produce podcasts, as well as how you can publish your podcast on Stanford iTunes. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb6 What Google Can Do for Your Website - http://www.googleguide.com/category/website-development/ Nancy Blachman, author and developer of Google Guide, will show you how to get more visitors to your website and generate (more) revenue. She will share her experiences in designing, developing, and promoting Google Guide, www.googleguide.com, which is now the top result forqueries including [ Google tutorial ], [ Google guide ], [ using Google ], [ Google quick reference ], [ Google coffee mug ] , and [Google favorite features ]. In this presentation, Nancy will cover creating content for your website, linking to search results, getting your site listed in Google, improving your site's ranking, publicizing and advertising your website and generating revenue from AdSense. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb7 May 25: No Tech Briefing (Memorial Day Weekend) http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb8 This week's session will focus primarily on the new version of Stanford Desktop Tools for Windows. Some improvements have been made to the offering and we'll be covering that and the process of moving off of PC-Leland. Everyone on campus needs to move off of PC-Leland and MacLeland prior to April 2008, so this is just ramping up the communications about that http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb9 In this week's session, Mark Branom (IT Services) will show you how to create and use RSS feeds -- those XML files that are used by web publishers to broadcast blogs, podcasts, and other content by "pushing" it to their users. Join Mark as he demonstrates how to use these relatively new technologies. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb10 June 15: No Tech Briefing (Graduation Weekend) http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb11 To help web designers and online content creators produce material that is accessible to the greatest audience possible, The Stanford Online Accessibility Program (http://soap.stanford.edu) provides guidance to those at Stanford community who share information via the Web. The recommended standards and best practices enhance the user-experience for everyone, including those with disabilities. Come meet John Foliot (Academic Technology Consultant) and discover how he can assist you -- from enhancing the search-ability of your site to future-proofing your content for emerging technologies. REMEMBER: Universal Accessibility benefits all. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb12 Join us as Kent Reuber present some basic info on setting up home networks on Stanford DSL, Stanford West, and non-Stanford DSL/cable modems. He will talk about the basics of print servers, wireless access points, and routers. He will also present some example home network diagrams that you may want to follow. He won't be covering specific products – there are simply too many products out there. He will, however, give you some recommendations on home network configurations that can be used with many different products. http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/index_spr07.html#tb13