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The Student Council would like to bring to your attention the Harvard Business Publishing site which provides emerging leaders with the practical insights, tools and resources necessary to become effective executives and managers functioning at the highest levels of business.
A number of interesting Harvard video interviews can be found on YouTube to help you find inspiration in these challenging global economic times:
http://www.youtube.com/HarvardBusiness
Worth a look.
http://www.management-issues.com/default.asp
Management-Issues is an independent online resource which focuses on the leadership, management and people issues that are at the heart of the changing workplace. The site provides an objective platform for topical debate and informed opinion by thought leaders on management, leadership and human resources issues.
Management-Issues has an extensive search engine presence and is a Google News source.
Management-Issues Visitor Profile Registrations show that the majority of visitors are at middle to senior management level followed by HR professionals, consultants and university and MBA students.
Give it a try it has lots of reports that can be used in your studies at SMC!
Students wishing to hold online group meetings can now do so for free using Mikogo meeting software. Mikogo is simple to use and their web site has two short videos on how to set up and participate in group online meetings.
Essentially, www.mikogo.com allows a group of up to twn (10) participants share 1 computer screen. The shared computer screen can be operated by anyone in the meeting so different people can share their screen at different times.
Now Mikogo does not share text or audio/video messaging for the group, it is mainly a desktop sharing program, so you would also need to use a chat program like MSN or Yahoo! But considering that it is free, it makes desktop collaboration a lot more friendly! Enjoy!
The student council has mentioned the great free service offered by YouSendIt in the past. However, given the instructions about sending video email to your professors, http://blog.swissmc.ch/smcsc/2008/02/27/video-email/ ,we thought it would be interesting to link that tutorial with the benefit of using YouSendIt.
As mentioend elsewhere, YouSendIt allows you to send up to 100mb files for free. The file is uploaded to their server and an email with the file link is sent to your recipient. They simply click the link and download the file. This way the large file isn’t trying to go through your email client and ultimately failing and giving you an error message.
When using YouSendIt.com with our technique for sending video eMail you can thus send files up to 100mb or 100 minutes long given the 1 MB per minute recording speed. This is ample recording length to say whatever you need to say and even make a formal video presentation to your professor. Enjoy the technology!
Send your Professor a video email !
For many of us it is difficult to make that connection to our professors and fellow students. Often video technologies are plagued by incompatibility problems or are just plain clunky! The alternative, video eMail was difficult because file sizes were too large to send via email and most would be bumped.
With Apple’s release of the latest verison of Quicktime many of these issues of sending video email are gone and you are able to, at last, send a personalized version of yourself to someone half way around the world no matter what platform you use, Mac or PC.
http://www.apple.com/ca/quicktime/download/
Quicktime now supports the H.264 format for recording video that makes it possible to send small sized video through email. The video in the email takes the size of an iPod screen thus requiring less memory.
What You Need:
You will require two things to make video eMail a reality. First you will need a camera for your computer. Many variations of cameras are available at all different price points. We figure you can purchase a reliable camera for something around $50 U.S., but there are cheaper ones out there. Second, you will need a copy of the Quicktime program. The regular program is free, however if you wish to record you will need the Pro version which cost $29.99 U.S. Interestingly, the pereson at the other end only needs the free version to view your video eMail. So you can send that important video eMail to Mom and not have her spend any money!
What You Do:
Once your camera is installed in your machine, or if you are one of the lucky ones you have a camera pre-installed, you then start Quicktime and simply record your video. Once recorded you attach the video to your outgoing eMail as you would any other file.
Memory:
Typically you get 1.20 minutes of video play per Megabyte so you want to keep the video to less than 5 minutes or less than 5 mb to insure you dont get bumped by a server. Most email services like Google and Hotmail/MSN now allow up to 10 MB email messages. This is still quite a lot of time to express yourself verbally. Naturally you can also accompany the video eMail with standard written word or attach other files.
For SMC:
The video eMail makes a perfect way for many students to send a greeting to new professors so that professors can put a face and personality to their distance learning students. So give it a try and see your relationship with your professor take on a greater depth. Also, some of the professors once introduced to the technology by the student council have committed to using it to help further develop our learning platform.
Have Fun, The Student Council.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. www.TED.com
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. Almost 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
The digital revolution has changed much more than technology, entertainment, and design — it has completely transformed business, in ways that could scarcely have been imaginable at the first TED conference, in 1984. And now, what’s next? Charles Leadbeater looks for a new generation of business innovation in the talented amateurs who suddenly have access to professional tools and markets. Juan Enriquez and Ray Kurzweil both look at way-new technology’s effects on our future economies and cultures.
Meanwhile, nonprofits and for-profits have begun to learn from one another. Iqbal Quadir argues that business and philanthropy need to overlap — and that to a poor farmer, a mobile phone is more empowering than a check. Sasa Vucinic says that solid business principles are the key to a truly free press, especially in repressive or anarchic countries. And Jacqueline Novogratz makes a case for investing in home-grown solutions to poverty.
Meanwhile, Malcolm Gladwell reminds us that, new or old, business will always be about selling a customer something they really, really want.
If you need some help with citations, why not check out Citation Machine, sponsored by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy? The site asks students to identify which citation style they are using (MLA, APA, Chicago, ISO, or CBE). Students then enter information about their electronic resources into a series of data fields. Citation Machine then creates the citation.
Citation Machine is for online resources only, and it provides a valuable service to researchers. It lets us focus on the important part: giving credit where credit is due.
For many students out there you surely read a lot of pdf’s right on your screen. When reading screen text we often want to highlight text in yellow. Most of the time this isn’t a problem. However, depending on the page you might experience difficulties. First in multi-column pages many pdf readers can not tell the difference between one column or the other, so when you try to highlight the left column and drag your cursor down the page the program also highlights your right column.
A way to get around this annoyance is to use the ALT-select method. Place your cursor near the beginning of the text you wish to highlight. Press the ALT key. You will see the cross hair cursor appear. Hold down the ALT key and drag the select tool across the text you wish to highlight. If you have previously clicked the highlight tool then many programs will automatically highlight the selected text. If not, then click the highlight tool once the selected text is grayed-out. The selected text should appear yellow. That’s it. This little trick should save you many a hassle and headache. Remember to save your document before closing or you’ll lose your highlights!
One thing to note is that Adobe Reader doesn’t let you highlight most pdf’s, so you need to find an open source one. There are many out there. Even though Macs come with a built-in pdf reader Mac users might want to look at “Skim”. It is suppose to be the best in breed.
The SMC Student Council & Alumni is an approved Group on Linkedin. Also, through its council representative it is a member of The Association of MBAs. The SMC Student Council was formed specifically to provide the highest quality support for the graduate and doctoral student community. Its role is to improve the SMC experience for all students. We hope that all students will take an active role in the community.
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