This document provides suggestions for bringing more interactive elements into online courses, including using Meebo for synchronous chat, embedding videos and images to make content more visual, and adding RSS feeds to bring external blogs and wikis into the class. Instructions are included for setting up each of these elements.

1. Bringing More Into Your Online Course Ruth Alsobrook-Hurich

2. Why Bring More Retention Asynchronous to Synchronous Learning Styles

3. What to Bring Meebo Video Images RSS Feeds

4. Meebo Browser Based Synchronous One Account

5. Meebo Meebo Widget Create New Widget Copy/Paste Code

6. Movies Easy Access In Class

7. Movies Copy/Paste Code

8. Images Created Visual

9. Images Embed Image Use <imgsrc=“URL” />Replace “URL” with the image location…Keeping the quotation marks

10. RSS feeds Brings Wikis and Blogs to Class Additional Information

11. RSSFeed Copy the RSS Link Right click Internet Explorer-“copy shortcut” Firefox-”copy link location”

12. RSSFeed Go to feed2js.org Select “Build” Paste RSS Address Make Selections Select “Generate JavaScript” Copy/Paste Code

13. More Idea Audio Podcasts Music Screen Sharing Jing ScreenToaster ToonDoo Games