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Online Collaboration

Online Collaboration. Brenda Kerr. Collaboration online - Advantages? - disadvantages?. Online collaboration Techniques. Have you participated in collaborative activities in an online classroom?. Online collaborative techniques – Entire Class. Relay Information

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Online Collaboration

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  1. Online Collaboration Brenda Kerr

  2. Collaboration online - Advantages?- disadvantages?

  3. Online collaboration Techniques Have you participated in collaborative activities in an online classroom?

  4. Online collaborative techniques – Entire Class • Relay Information • Research findings, ideas, or suggestions • Entire class interactions • Debate Topic • Analyze Case Study • Respond to Open-ended Question

  5. Online collaborative techniques - Small Group • Discuss in small group • Reporter summarizes to class • Projects • Work area restricted to project group members • Share files and URLs(Use many tools)

  6. Online collaborative techniques – one to one • Student to Student • Peer – Review • Mentoring • by more advanced class (cross curriculum) • Student to Instructor • Journaling / Reflections • Internship / Student Teachers

  7. Online Collaboration Tools Which online tools/applications could be used with collaborative activities you design for your classroom?

  8. Consider the characteristics of Tools used to facilitate the collaborative activity

  9. CharacteristicsAsynchronous Tools • Asynchronous Collaboration • Blogs • Discussion • Wiki • Synchronous Collaboration • Web Conferencing • Chat • Instant Messaging What Other Types of Tools Can You Name??

  10. Characteristicssynchronous Tools • Synchronous Collaboration • Web Conferencing • Dimdim • Elluminiate • Chat • Course Management System (CMS) chat tool • Third Party Chat Tools • Instant Messaging • Google • CMS • Phone – Group messaging application

  11. Characteristics blogs • Blogs • Owned by individual • Individual posts idea or composition • Readers subscribe • Readers comment • Owner can receive email notification

  12. CharacteristicsDiscussion boards • Discussion Boards • Threaded Messages • Students reply to original postings • View discussion by date • Organized by threads • Users need to reply

  13. Characteristics wiki • Document collaboration • Version and audit tracking • Comment feature • Notification of changes • Plug-in components • Multiple users edit file

  14. Tool Characteristics - Chat • Conversations can be disjointed • Synchronous • Archived • See only messages posted after entrance to room

  15. Tool Characteristics Other tools??

  16. PB Works www.pbworks.com

  17. PB Works (PB Wiki) • Collaboration Features • Collaborative page editing • Document management and file sharing • History and audit trail • Invite others to collaborate • Automatic notifications by RSS and email. • Control user access level • Easily create classroom set of usernames and passwords

  18. PB Works • Multimedia Features • Videos • Photo slideshows • PowerPoint presentations • Spreadsheets • Calendars • Chat Rooms • …and more • Example: http://amacy.pbworks.com/

  19. Web Confernecing www.dimdim.com

  20. Web conferencing • Web Conferencing • Allows for visual cues to be recognized through “live” talking head • Creates “all-in” collaborative conversation regarding current subject • Can be used as introduction to new materials or as review • Can be modified to allow for virtual “office hours”

  21. Web conferencing • Web Conferencing • PowerPoint Presentations • Websites • White Board • Desktop viewing • Example: http://www.dimdim.com

  22. Questions and sharing

  23. Contact Information • Brenda Kerr – bkerr@mtsu.edu

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