Breeze Pilot

Project Sponsor: Liz Houle
Project Manager: Elizabeth Smith

To meet UST's increasing need for robust, collaborative tools to enable real-time (synchronous) virtual events and learning opportunities, IRT is conducting a project with faculty and staff to explore the use of Adobe® (Macromedia) Breeze in a variety of teaching and learning situations.

What is Breeze?

Breeze has two main components: Breeze Meeting and Breeze Presenter.

Breeze Meeting is a Web conferencing application that facilitates real-time (synchronous) communication, collaboration, and teaching and learning. Breeze meetings take place in an online meeting room via a browser. Meeting room features include audio/video conferencing, chat, whiteboard, polling, screen/application sharing, and file sharing. Breeze meetings can be recorded for asynchronous access or review after the meeting. Breeze meeting has a range of instructional possibilities:

• Conduct meetings and/or office hours (on or off campus) via a chat session that could include audio, images, Web pages and PowerPoint files
• Present material to students who may not have been able to attend class; sessions can be recorded for later viewing
• Communicate with outside experts in or outside of class
• Broadcast a lecture to students outside the classroom

Breeze Presenter is a plug-in for Powerpoint for recording, editing and synchronizing digital audio with PowerPoint. All that is needed to create a Breeze presentation is PowerPoint, the Presenter plug-in, and a microphone or headset connected to your computer. Viewing a Breeze presentation requires only a computer with speakers or headset, a web browser and the Flash plug-in.

When published, presentations are converted to Flash (swf) presentations which can be uploaded to a web site, into Blackboard, or saved to a CD-ROM.

Project Status

During this pilot phase, Breeze accounts and meetings are established on a case by case basis.

Faculty and staff interested in using Breeze Meeting or Presenter should contact their Academic Technology Consultant or local IRT Consultant. If you wish, you can contact them through this online form.