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16 Nov 08

Tips For Making Virtual Classroom Sessions More Interactive | Mobile Technology in TAFE

Ideas for making synchronous whiteboard sessions more interactive with labeling activities, wordsearch games, "wordstorms", partner activities, and polls/quizzes.

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10 Jul 08

Taking the 'A' out of Asynchronous

Examples of colleges successfully using synchronous tools for office hours, student collaboration, and administrative work

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31 Oct 07

Tips for Using Chat as an Instructional Tool

  • Overview of synchronous chat in online courses. Includes suggestions on how to match learning outcomes to the right tools (asynchronous or synchronous) and facilitation ideas. The emphasis is on using chat for actual learning, going deeper than just having a conversation.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-10-31
21 Jul 07

Kapp Notes: Comparing 2D and 3D Synchronous Learning

  • Karl Kapp has created a video demonstrating differences in approach to training in 2D and 3D environments. He starts with an example of what would be some pretty good 2D synchronous training, then shows what else can be done in a 3D environment like Second Life.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-07-21
28 Jun 07

EDUCAUSE Quarterly | The Importance of Nonverbal Elements in Chat

  • Study of nonverbal signals (smileys, multiple punctuation, onomatopoeia) in text-based chat. This research found that the informal nonverbals helped build the learning community and encourage groups.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-28
  • Nonverbal communication adds nuance or richness of meaning that cannot be communicated by verbal elements alone. Given time and experience, some of the same richness of real-time, face-to-face communication can occur in a virtual, text-based medium.
25 Jun 07

Designer eLearning: Promoting Collaboration - Horton Summary

  • Summary of William Horton's comparison of online collaboration tools: email, asynchronous discussion boards, chat, whiteboards, and screen sharing.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-25

Online Lectures: Benefits for the Virtual Classroom : August 2001 : THE Journal

  • Explores the benefits of synchronous discussion, including social presence and a sense of community.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-25

Tremblay: Best Practices and Collaborative Software In Online Teaching

  • Beginning with a discussion of the benefits of synchronous discussion in online courses, this paper presents some best practices for interactivity and synchronous chat.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-25
  • They focus group energy, they permit real-time interaction
    (which can help develop group cohesion, especially for those less familiar with
    media-based learning) and, most importantly, they provide a familiar instructional
    environment that mimic many positive features found in the traditional classroom
    environment (i.e., synchronicity, verbal rather than text-based interaction,
    instructor presence, whiteboard presentation facilities, hand-raising for turn-taking,
    public and private messaging capabilities).

Synchronous Learning Model over the Internet

  • Guidelines for synchronous discussions focused how to effectively use these tools to promote learning.

    "This paper describes an on-line synchronous learning model that aims to provide guidelines for teachers and students to conduct synchronous instruction."
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-25

Successful Synchronous and Asynchronous Discussions

  • Compares synchronous and asynchronous discussions. This 1-page PDF compares planning, implementing, and evaluating discussions with either synchronous or asynchronous tools.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-25
07 Jun 07

Web Teaching Articles: Taking discussion online

  • Pros and cons of asynchronous and synchronous discussion in online courses. Includes some ideas on how to encourage participation. This is fairly basic and assumes you aren't familiar with these technologies at all, but it is a nice introduction to the options.
     - christyinsdesign on 2007-06-07
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