4. Platform introduction (4 slides)
Health warning
• If you are here it has worked
– Fire drill I am relatively
– Headphones new to this as
• Permission to record well.
– Posting the recording Only the second
• public or private?
time I have used
• Back channels Wimba
– Text chat (see next slide) Classroom.
– Twitter
I have used
– Telephone in emergency
Elluminate for
several years
5. Platform tools
Volume: Attention & Space-
Camera: approval wasting
Listening Toggle on
Talk: click and and indicators advert
and off
HOLD to talk speaking
Exit
Dial-in
information
Polling &
Polling and Presence and approval approval
attention Clear, Away, Thumbs- results
Text chat to: Text chat: tools: up/down, Surprised,
Select who Type text Tick = yes Confused, Applaud,
to chat to here Cross = no Laugh, Speed up, Slow Admin
Raise hand Down tools
6. Media “Options” Menu
• Behaviour is odd
• Only available when you
are “presenter”
• May hide behind the
main window
• Turn on camera, then
select options
• Use to “Lock Talk” if you
are delivering a lecture
7. Good practice?
• Try it out first. Have a practice session.
• Speak in short sentences. (Even if you are me.)
• The talk button takes a moment to work
• Seek feedback on attention often
• Slide transitions don't work
• Desktop sharing and application sharing don't work
• You will get through about half of face-to-face
• Encourage a back channel - and follow it
• If there is silence it is often because people are reading the
back channel - not because sound has failed
• Have a collaborator watch the backchannel for you
• Discourage the use of cameras "in the room”
• If you are the presenter and you are on camera - remember -
you are on camera (hand/nose no no!)
8. • Profiles
• Course focus
• Week 1 activities
• Sharing on this course
• Reflection
EXTENDING YOUR ONLINE COURSE
9. Profiles
• What does your profile “say” about you
• Finding profile resources
• Sharing these resources
– Webquest
• Leads to a general problem of sharing in this
course
– See
• Course focus: distributed collaboration
• Sharing on this course
10. Out of the almost limitless possibilities:
• Audiographics and multimedia
• Distributed collaboration
• Social citation
• Others?
COURSE FOCUS
11. Audiographics and multimedia
• Challenges
– Synchronous discussion and the tyranny of now
– Channel => relationship => message
– Multimedia production
• Tools and resources
12. Distributed collaboration
• Group-work online?
– Tools
– The problem of sharing in this course
• Week 2 and 3 activity preview:
– In your small group/pair design, develop and (next
week) display a learning activity which extends an
online course through the use of social media
tools.
14. Other focus
• Portfolios?
• Mobile learning?
• OER?
• Game-based learning?
– Khan Academy
“We're full of game mechanics. As soon as you login,
you'll start earning badges and points for learning. “
http://www.khanacademy.org/about
15. • Identity, privacy and disclosure
• Sharing social citation practice
WEEK 1 ACTIVITIES
16. Identity, privacy, disclosure
• Do you follow or friend your students?
– Asynchronous discussion in the VLE forums
– Resources
• Again, see “Sharing on this course”
17. Sharing social citation
• The “obvious” thing
– All get a Bibsonomy account
• Friend each other
• Agree some common tags
– All get a Zotero account
• Share a “Library”
• What’s wrong with this picture?
18. • Given the complexity, how can we develop
appropriate social citation practices for this
course, and for courses we teach?
19. Sharing on this course
• Collaborative work spaces
– Google docs?
• Forms?
– Wiki?
