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TCC09 Keynote: Global Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World

Experiencing eLearning

Global collaboration can be very small; can just be one teacher and one class with blogs or Skype. With blogs, move students from passive lurking on a class blog –> blog comments first. Examples: student blogging project , 10 weeks with a challenge to push students more each week. Connect = Elluminate.

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Learning from Others in the Room

Tony Karrer

crazy fun! ” @chambo_online “Very intrigued to have 130 people writing on a whiteboard all at once at #learntrends … and amazingly, it didn’t suck” @cynan_sez “130+ people writing on same Elluminate whiteboard and GWave also being completed. eLearning Technology.

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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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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. Blog: Blogging is arguably one of the most powerful tools for global education.

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Running a MOOC

Learning with e's

Over at the University of Brighton, Peps McCrea is currently blogging about MOOCs (Massively Online Open Courses) and is speculating how they might influence the future of Higher Education. If the question relates to whether British academics and specialists will begin to write, organise and deliver MOOCs, that's another question entirely.

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Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers

OpenSesame

Celtx Script Writing. Elluminate , WebEx , Centra , LiveMeeting , Project Management. Read Melissa’s blogs at DesignDoc and Inside Online Learning or follow her on Twitter: @Melissa_Venable. GIMP , Picnik. PaintNet , PaintShop Pro. Sony Vegas Pro , Sorenson Squeeze , After Effects. Audacity , Levelator. Soundbooth.

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Can anybody hear me?

Learning with e's

No access to Elluminate. Chat messaging on Elluminate was working OK, but not the best medium for presenting a live talk. Morse code would have worked if I knew how to read/write it (and if the audience knew it too). I lost Elluminate completely (again). I came in two hours early, tested out the system. Maybe semaphore?