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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

These are my live blogged notes from Karen Hyder’s webinar, Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions from the Training Magazine Network. Synchronous time is “premium time&# : if you just want “chalk & talk,&# just record it and let people watch on their own time. Voice & Language.

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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!) You want to translate this teaching method to the distance realm. would be difficult for scheduling reasons.

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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. Online course with asynchronous (LMS) & synchronous (Web conferencing). Hearing and speaking during synchronous meetings. Universal Design. It’s not just whether it’s possible, but how usable it is.

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Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers

OpenSesame

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

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Is Second Life 100% experimental?

E-Learning Acupuncture

If I were teaching a graduate-level distance course that required synchronous student-to-student interaction and was on the topic of technology in education, then I would be tempted to run it on SL. a requirement for synchronous interaction on the topic of education technology). Elluminate's learning curve is a much more gentle slope.

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

eFront

Meetings can be conducted either in conjunction with an enterprise’s existing teleconferencing service, or utilizing WebHuddle’s optional voice over IP. Dimdim delivers synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing your voice and video over the Internet - with no download.

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Plug-and-Play eLearning

Breakthrough eLearning

From blogs and wikis, to social networking software, to online messaging, to voice-over-Internet applications, to web widgets and mash up software, it is becoming increasingly easy to publish and interact with others online. Collaborative Model Create a wiki (e.g.