Shared material for the Microsoft in Higher Education Conference 2020
Dewayne Hyatt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dewaynehyatt/
Joe Gasper - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joegasper/
Hosting Online Conferences and Symposiums using Microsoft Teams - Recording (YouTube) | Slide deck (PowerPoint)
NACAA Organization Online Conference Hosting in Microsoft Teams - Case Study
When it looked like the annual meeting of county extension agents from US land-grant universities would be canceled, UF/IFAS stepped up to stage the event in Teams and successfully hosted more than 1,300 attendees from across the country.
Sizer - resize any window to an exact, predefined size (i.e., 1920x1080)
Microsoft PowerToys - Image Resizer, PowerRename, FancyZones
Xpdf - pdftopng.exe - convert a large quantity or automate the export of PDFs to PNGs.
Example: Get-Item "Poster_*.pdf" | % {.\xpdf-tools\bin64\pdftopng.exe -q $_.Name ($_.Name.Replace('.pdf',''))}
OBS Studio - enhance and optimize output for live events with a virtual camera.
Move transition - OBS Studio Plugin to move sources to a new position during scene transition
obs-ndi - NewTek NDI™ integration into OBS Studio adds simple audio/video input and output over IP
NDI® Tools - free suite of applications designed to introduce you to the world of IP
VB-CABLE - a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable - useful in OBS for audio output from a prerecorded video
Greenshot - screen capture software
ScreenToGif - Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor with output to GIF or MP4
PowerPoint morph transition - animate smooth movement from one slide to the next
PowerPoint Presenter Coach - help your presenters improve their presentations
PowerPoint sharing in Teams - Save bandwidth up to 90%
Live Events best practices - document from the Microsoft Education Engineering Engagement Team
Aka.my URL Shortener - inexpensive for feature allowing changing target URL of a short URL (helpful for live event links provided externally to the team)
Graphics inspirations: unDraw | humaaans | blackillustrations | lukaszadam | Unsplash | Pexels | NoDesign.dev
YouTube video download - just change the domain in the URL from youtube.com to youtubepp.com
Attendee - conference experience overview for attendees
Presenter - presenter's experience for presenting their work