Using New Media for Online CommunicationDo you think learning is boring? Are you tired about reading all thisstuff? Have you considered using another medium?
Podcasting is one of the new mediums that is being used to givealternatives to text based materials. Free audio files that you can download andlisten on your computer or with your MP3-Player or iPod. You will also examine online tools and software that will enable you to produce your own content.
Podcasting is only the beginning, join Marian as he shares with you hisexperiences using skypecasts, talkshoe, videocasts and more.About Marian Heddesheimer:
Marian Heddesheimer is a freelance Internet-programmer since the early days of the World-Wide-Web. He produces custom programmed Internet and Intranet applications for his customers. He is also an experienced teacher with over 10 years of experience in face-to-face teaching. For the last 2 years, he is teaching all of his courses over the Internet. He usess asynchronous methods like Learning-Websites and E-Books, as well as, synchronous methods like Skype, Text Chat and other web-technologies.
You can find his weblog including his podcast, talkcast and video tutorials at http://www.rent-a-tutor.com/blog/ Tapped In is a community of practice for educators. The most valuable feature of Tapped In is the international membership of over 22,000. Experienced members provide leadership and support by volunteering to lead events for professional development that are posted to the Tapped In calendar. Members also volunteer for HelpDesk. Helpdesk offers tours of the main features of Tapped In, real time support to guests and new members, and monitors the community to ensure the safety and security of the virtual environment.
In addition to Professional Development opportunities, the Tapped In interface offers private offices, special interest groups, automatically issued text chat transcripts, storage for files and links, and a safe and secure campus where teachers can bring their K-12 classes.
About Tapped In: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/web/about.jsp#educators
Tapped In Flyer: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/web/papers/TI2Flyer.pdf
BJ Berquist has been a member of Tapped In since 1998. She leads several monthly discussions, is a helpdesk volunteer, and organizes the annual Tapped In Festival. In her other life, BJ teaches remedial communication in a male juvenile correctional facility in Pennsylvania, US.
Jeff Cooper is a career educator with 15 years experience, and over 10 years of experience using the net in K-12 and university level classrooms. He is one of the original members of Tapped In and has volunteered on Helpdesk since it began in 1997. He offers weekly advanced tours of the interface, focusing on supporting K-12 educators in creating Tapped In classrooms for their students.
Building Trust in Cyberspace.
This topic is relevant to people working in virtual communities as well as people teaching online classes. I will draw from my experience, my collaborative e-learning study, as well as from the literature.
About Janet Salmons
Janet is on the faculty of the Capella University School of Business and Technology, where she develops and teaches courses in leadership and team leadership.
She practices what she teaches through Vision2Lead, Inc.Blog for educators- http://blog.elearn2lead.com
Blog for learners- http://belearner.elearn2lead.com- Google now offers over 25 free tools that can be used to enhance learning.
Combining these tools appropriately can provide an effective online or
blended learning environment that is simple to setup, familiar to students
and easy to sustain.
Join Rod and Jeff in this online hands-on workshop that will have you work
through several interactive learning activities designed to introduce you to
these tools and how to best employ them to meet your learners' needs. Open Source Energy Therapy
Anxieties about content material, un-familiar technologies; and usual personal issues are probably the number one reason for lack of completion of online courses or participation in online communities. There are oodles of therapists offering myriad approaches to anxiety reduction and removal. Bruno's favorites are those (like EFT and ZPP) that most openly explain their approaches and not only freely share the very process by which these procedures were discovered but also allow anyone to participate in the co-creative process of improving or inventing new procedures.
Please contact Bruno if you would like to co-moderate this session
About Bruno Vernier
Bruno is constantly investigating new ways to improve the lives of teachers and their students and colleagues working in the online environment- Teacher: Sarah Haavind
- Teacher: Marsha West
Facilitation Strategies for Focusing and Deepening Online Learning
Do you have the e-moderator skills and tools to facilitate learner collaboration and move online dialogue from mere brainstorming to deeper learning? What are your challenges? Perhaps you wonder how an e-moderator might sharpen the focus of dialogues when postings about new content are widely divergent. Or possibly you struggle with what course of action an online instructor might take if discussants do not engage directly with content or begin to wander off-topic. We will begin with your questions and the specific challenges you face and then introduce tools, examples and strategies to address your challenges with facilitating effective online collaboration. This interactive session will model experimental, learner-centered usage of elluminate. We'll decide together, at the end, how it worked. Come prepared with your most challenging online teaching dilemmas! We'll bring the kleenex...<just KIDDING!!>
About Dr. Sarah Haavind
Dr. Sarah Haavind, co-author of Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Practices for Moderators (2000, Atwood) and Assistant Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, is an instructor for the TERC/Lesley partnership Online Masters Science in Education Program ( http://www.lesley.edu/soe/science/index.html ). For the past decade she has supported higher education and secondary instructors to move their content online and take advantage of asynchronous, collaborative internet tools to deepen learning.Her recent study on Virtual High School courses (www.govhs.org), An Interpretative Model of Key Heuristics that Promote Collaborative Dialogue Among Online Learners , will be published later this year in the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks at Sloan-C.- The Value of Serious Games
Serious games are interactive learning tools which have a persuasive or educational purpose. In a simulation, we are immersed in the processes we wish to master and immediately experience the consequences of our actions. In a multi-player game, our acquired skills are tested against human opponents. We are more likely to remember an experience when we are engaged and having fun.
- Join us for potluck of resources and experiences with serious games and learning simulations.
- Discuss the value of serious games. Do they have value? If so, how can we utilize them more fully?
About Tia Carr Williams:
Tia is COO of amodus.org.uk an international portal where executives, professionals, peers, thought leaders congregate to share knowledge and discuss solutions to generic issues. She consults with CEO's and start up entrepreneurs in business development and is compiling a new anthology on modern entrepreneurship entitled Skin In The Game : Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century . Tia is the VP Corporate Relations for Tycoon Systems which develops business simulation technologies with a specific focus on educational business games for entrepreneurs and business students most notably Industry Player Tycoon System's highly interactive designs convey realistic and challenging business games to empower individuals to play their role as an entrepreneur in a virtual environment as an intense training process.
Community : http://amodus.org.uk
Project : http://tycoonsystems.com
Consulting: http://amodusconsultants.com
About Therese Weel
Therese has 16 years professional experience as a business analyst and consultant. Since 2004 she has been working as a virtual system integrator. She understands that technology and globlalization have introduced dramatic changes that affect our access to knowledge, the creation of economic value and the cultural assumptions of our society. How we use technology to learn, cultivate relationships and work together will have a profound effect on our future. Therese is interested in how we can use emerging technologies and knowledge to create value for ourselves and others.
- Leveraging technology in simple and effective ways
- Virtual organizations, social business models and collaboration.
Project : http://virtualtoolshed.ca
Consulting : http://amodusconsultants.com - Join us for potluck of resources and experiences with serious games and learning simulations.