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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). Voice & Language. don’t just focus on technology, think about how your voice works. Image Credit : elluminate by shareski. Share example = Microphone. Brainstorm = chat pod. Demonstrate = Application share/web tour. 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!) You want to translate this teaching method to the distance realm. would be difficult for scheduling reasons.

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Cisco Buys Webex

Tony Karrer

Just saw this : Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it was finally adding voice capabilities to its Live Communication Server. This makes me wonder what these systems will start to look like in a couple of years and whether folks like Elluminate will be able to compete.

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

Learning Visions

Tools like Elluminate can provide connection through voice and immediacy. Encourage faculty to have intro activities where individuals can identify a little about themselves, their interest and expectations about course. Can be dry, but there are fun ways to do this. Can provide ways for students to connect with each other.

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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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TCC08: Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible

Experiencing eLearning

Steven: physical disability–unable to use standard mouse or keyboard, voice is soft & hard to understand. Elluminate has real-time captioning available (I’ve never seen anyone use this in a presentation before–very nicely done. Universal Design. Hearing audio content. Accommodations. Captioning. transcript).

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Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers

OpenSesame

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. Synchronous Communication. OpenWorkbench , Evernote. Gantto , MSProject , LotusLive.