Tag Archives: collaboration
Free Online Phone Conferencing and Recording
I was helping out a faculty member the other day who had a request to record a phone interview and found a website called Free Conference Calling. This site is free and after signing up you are given a phone number, conference code and host code that allows you to initiate a conference call with [...] Continue reading
Posted in audio, call recording, Conferencing, mp3, phone, Productivity, recording, tlt
Tagged collaboration, conference, discussion, free
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A new way to interact online — Google+ Hangout…with extras
Google+ offers two new ways to interact with your friend, colleagues, or anyone in your circles: Google+ Hangout which is a video chat application and Google+ Hangout with Extras which allows for the video and text-based chat as well as document and screen sharing and a shared online whiteboard. At it’s most basic the Hangout [...] Continue reading
Posted in audio, Conferencing, Distance Ed, document sharing, extra, Hangout, screen sharing
Tagged android, apps, collaboration, communication, Google, Google apps, iPad, online, video, video chat, whiteboard
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Tips for Managing Weekly Online Discussions
Weekly online discussions, whether in a face-to-face class or a fully-online class, can be a great learning tool for students. They can foster reflection, debate and critical thinking. They can also facilitate community within the class. Weekly discussion however can be very difficult to manage as the professor. Do you respond to each student? Do [...] Continue reading
Posted in best practice, critical thinking, Distance Ed, effective, Faculty Focus, instructional technology, online discussions, Pedagogy
Tagged collaboration, debate, discussions, OAKS, tips
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Cool tool to visualize your OAKS discussions
I just ran across a tool called SNAPP that will create visualizations of your OAKS discussions. SNAPP, created by Dr. Shane Dawson at the University of Wollongong, is designed to take information from a discussion topic in OAKS and create … Continue reading
Posted in New Stuff, software, tlt
Tagged collaboration, communication, discussion, graphic, interaction, OAKS, tlt, visualization
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Good news for Ning users! There’s a new free, private social network on the block
I know that several CofC Faculty became quite accomplished Ning users only to be cut off when Ning decided to cancel their free service. Well I just ran across a potential substitute called Toonti. It offers many of the same … Continue reading
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Tagged class, collaboration, communication, course delivery, lms, Ning, social, social network, tlt, Toonti
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