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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). Breakout rooms–how does audio work? Audio response–something too long to type in chat. Voice & Language. don’t just focus on technology, think about how your voice works. Voice & Language. PPTs for structure.

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The power of Voice in online classrooms

E-Learning Acupuncture

Of course, you have several challenges: The students are geographically distributed and, therefore, using an audio-enabled online synchronous presentation room (such as Elluminate Live!) Together you can make a series of audio comments on the images that everyone can hear and playback more than once.

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TCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible

Experiencing eLearning

Steven: physical disability–unable to use standard mouse or keyboard, voice is soft & hard to understand. Video files & audio podcasts. Create descriptive audio for videos (i.e., Hearing audio content. Alternative text for audio (i.e., Universal Design. Text-based files. Threaded discussions.

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Collaboration Tools

Tony Karrer

Screen-Sharing GoToMeeting ( link ) eBLVD ( link ) ConnectNow ( link ) Microsoft Shared View Crossloop ( link ) Yuuguu ( link ) WebExNow ( link ) LiveLook ( link ) Vyew ( link ) Glance ( link ) Yugma ( link ) Teamviewer ( link ) BeamYourScreen ( link ) Remote Control GoToAssist ( link ) RealVNC VNC GoToMyPC ( link ) logmein ( link ) Teamviewer ( link (..)

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Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers

OpenSesame

Skype , DimDim , Oovoo , Google Talk/Voice. Elluminate , WebEx , Centra , LiveMeeting , Project Management. PaintNet , PaintShop Pro. Celtx Script Writing. Sony Vegas Pro , Sorenson Squeeze , After Effects. Audacity , Levelator. Soundbooth. WordPress , Moodle , Drupal. Blackboard. Synchronous Communication. OpenWorkbench , Evernote.

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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

eFront

BigBlueButton is a free web-conferencing tool with text chat, audio and video capabilites, a virtual whiteboard and many more presentation and conferencing features. Meetings can be conducted either in conjunction with an enterprise’s existing teleconferencing service, or utilizing WebHuddle’s optional voice over IP.

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Zany times at Corporate Learning Trends

Jay Cross

Voices sounded like we were gulping helium. Comment from our backchannel: “guys, playing around so much is really hammering app bandwidth: audio suffers, typing suffers, settle down!&# and “I’m finding audio is WAY behind the slides/chat.&# Screen-sharing didn’t work for rapidly changing slides.

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