Tag Archives: discussion
OAKS Notifications allows you to easily stay abreast of what’s happening in your class
Did you know that OAKS has notifications that allow you and your students to stay on top of what’s happening in your classes? Using the Notifications area on your OAKS Homepage you can set how and when you want to be alerted of new discussions, dropbox deadlines and new news items. You can be notified [...] Continue reading
Posted in best practice, dropbox, email, grades, mobile, news, Quizzes, student, subscribe, text, v10
Tagged discussion, discussions, faculty, notifications, OAKS
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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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Using Diigo for Collaborative Research
Diigo is a social bookmarking tool on steroids. Like other social bookmarking tools you can easily bookmark websites and web-based research and resources, storing them online and making them accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. You can also share your sites or lists with the public or a group. What sets Diigo apart [...] Continue reading
Posted in bookmarking, collaborate, notes, Productivity, Research, Share, social bookmarking
Tagged discussion, sharing
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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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Student Tips for Online Discussions
Thanks to Kathy Schrock for sharing the DOs and DONTs of Online Forums (pdf). While many of these tips may seem obvious to you as the instructor, they are not always obvious to students or to individuals that are not use … Continue reading
Posted in education, tlt
Tagged communication, discussion, Kathy Schrock, netiquette, online, threaded discussion, tlt
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