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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

“Death by PowerPoint online is worse than Death by PowerPoint in the classroom&# (not an exact quote, but gets the gist of what she said). Animations when possible (in Elluminate, must do a slide for each change). Even the PowerPoint 2007 Smart Art would be an improvement. Image Credit : elluminate by shareski.

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First Impressions of TelePresence

Experiencing eLearning

Unfortunately, this was a 3-hour meeting with a string of PowerPoint presentations. A PowerPoint presentation will work just as well with WebEx (or just a recording). We decided to mute, similar to what we would do with a big group in a web conferencing tool like WebEx or Elluminate. This is best when it’s interactive.

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TCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible

Experiencing eLearning

Elluminate has real-time captioning available (I’ve never seen anyone use this in a presentation before–very nicely done. PowerPoint slides–don’t JUST read them, but if you read them it, then that content is available via audio. Hearing audio content. Hearing and speaking during synchronous meetings. Captioning.

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

Webinar tools include Elluminate (now known as Blackboard Collaborate), WebEx and Adobe Connect all of which have similar screen topographies and perform similar functions, but all have an associated cost. The comments box at the foot of each video clip enables dialogue between presenter and students.

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Donald. Duck!

Learning with e's

"Maslow's hierarchy of needs is only popular, because triangles are easy to put into Powerpoint slides" he opined. What really rankled though with many of those present (and some of those watching via Elluminate) was his critique that academics do not question learning theories, not are they suffiently critical of them.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Here are the results and the level of exposure to technology tools this community provides: Twitter (2482) Social Network (1999) Wiki (1610) LMS (1346) Podcaster (1239) Facebook (1176) Flash (980) PowerPoint (922) YouTube (843) RSS (814) LinkedIn (798) Second Life (687) iPhone (602) Director (584) Moodle (550) PDF (521) Captivate (515) Wikipedia (502) (..)

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E-learning on a shoestring

Clive on Learning

The formula appears to be pretty consistent: Purchase some licenses for one of the more popular rapid authoring tools, typically Articulate / Adobe Presenter (for PowerPoint-based content) or Adobe Captivate (where there's more of an IT training bias). Many of my colleagues are doing the same.