Transcript Collaboration

Amy Macy
Brenda Kerr
 Asynchronous
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Blogs
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D2L
Discussion
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D2L
Wiki
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PB Works
 Synchronous
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Collaboration
Collaboration
Web Conferencing
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Dimdim
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Level the Playing field
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Students with disabilities or quiet students
Blogs
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Individual posts idea or composition
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Readers comment
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Owner can receive email notification
Discussion Boards
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Threaded Messages
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Students reply to original postings
View discussion by date
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Readers subscribe
Conversations more disjointed
Wikis
Document collaboration
 Version and audit tracking
 Group members notified of changes
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Characteristics
All comments appear under original posting
Owners and readers can be notified of changes
Owned by an individual
Not course specific
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Techniques
Peer – Review (course specific)
Mentoring by more advanced class
(cross curriculum)
Relay Research findings, ideas, or suggestions
 Entire
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class Discussion
Debate Topic, Analyze Case Study, Answer Question
 Restriction
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Student to Student
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by Group
Small Group Discussion
 Reporter summarizes to class
Projects
 Restricted to project group members
 Share files and URLs
 Combine with Chat, Wiki, and/or Dropbox
Student to Instructor
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Journaling / Reflections
 Internship / Student Teachers
 Asynchronous
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collaboration
Group presentation Tool – add files, media,
plug-ins.
Group report
Compile data / research results
 Viewable
to… group or world
 No outside software required
 History of each document tracked
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Easily restore
 Commenting
feature
 Collaboration
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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
 Multimedia
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Features
Videos
Photo slideshows
PowerPoint presentations
Spreadsheets
Calendars
Chat Rooms
…and more
 Example:
http://amacy.pbworks.com/
 Web
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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”
 Web
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Conferencing
PowerPoints
Websites
White Board
Desktop viewing
 Example:
http://www.dimdim.com
 Amy
Macy – [email protected]
 Brenda Kerr – [email protected]