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Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID Live on EdTechTalk)

Learning Visions

From an ID perspective -- what can you do to create social presence in an online classroom? Tools like Elluminate can provide connection through voice and immediacy. The next step: research that looks to whether creating social presence creates improved learning outcomes. Can be dry, but there are fun ways to do this.

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Weekly Bookmarks (1-2-2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Four-step model by Ruth Clark on designing for synchronous online training via Elluminate etc. How Long Does it Take to Create Learning? Four Steps to Effective Virtual Classroom Training by Ruth Clark : Learning Solutions Magazine. tags: e-learning synchronous instructionaldesign blended.

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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

Animations when possible (in Elluminate, must do a slide for each change). Have people type examples in chat–can be short application or synthesis (like “create a poll question you could use&# ). Image Credit : elluminate by shareski. Share example = Microphone. Brainstorm = chat pod. PPTs for structure.

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Daily Bookmarks 03/31/2008

Experiencing eLearning

The Bamboo Project Blog: Guide to Using Free Tools to Create an Online Portfolio. 6 steps to create your online portfolio (something I really should start working on one of these days). Diigo sandbox in elluminate in 1 1/2 hour… | Diigo Message System. Classroom Management Quotes. tags: education , quoteable.

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19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences

Tony Karrer

We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. For us, we create a discussion topic associate with the session and attach files or content into that. Thanks to Scott Skibell , we recorded the sessions directly off the web, i.e., outside of Elluminate and he produced great recordings. Technical Issues. It has issues with firewalls.

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Synchronous Software Scavenger Hunts

Experiencing eLearning

I’d rather create a bunch of Captivate tutorials and job aids to let people learn at their own pace, when they need to use the skills. Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners. I also added a few other grades in the gradebook.

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My Workflow with Synergy

Experiencing eLearning

When I liveblogged the TCC 2008 conference , I always had the Elluminate presentation up on my primary screen (my desktop computer) and my blog on my laptop. Synergy lets me easily switch focus back to the Elluminate screen to join the backchannel chat or answer a poll; you just move your mouse over to the other screen and type away.

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