Extending your online course

#eyolcVirtual Classroom

04/11/2011

Agenda• Platform introduction• Profiles

– What does your profile “say” about you?– Finding profile resources

• Course focus– Audiographics and multimedia– Distributed collaboration– Social citation– Others?

• Week 1 activities• Sharing on this course• Reflection

PLATFORM INTRODUCTION

Platform introduction (4 slides)

• If you are here it has worked– Fire drill– Headphones

• Permission to record– Posting the recording

• public or private?

• Back channels– Text chat (see next slide)– Twitter– Telephone in emergency

Health warning

I am relatively new to this as

well.

Only the second time I have used

Wimba Classroom.

I have used Elluminate for several years

Platform tools

Talk: click and HOLD to talk

Volume: Listening

and speaking

Camera: Toggle on

and off

Dial-in information

Text chat to: Select who to chat to

Text chat: Type text

here

Polling and attention

tools:Tick = yesCross = noRaise hand

Attention & approval indicators

Exit

Presence and approvalClear, Away, Thumbs-up/down, Surprised, Confused, Applaud,

Laugh, Speed up, Slow Down

Space-wasting advert

Admin tools

Polling & approval results

Media “Options” Menu

• Behaviour is odd• Only available when you

are “presenter”• May hide behind the main

window• Turn on camera, then

select options• Use to “Lock Talk” if you

are delivering a lecture

Good practice?• Try it out first. Have a practice session.• Speak in short sentences. (Even if you are me.)• The talk button takes a moment to work • Seek feedback on attention often• Slide transitions don't work• Desktop sharing and application sharing don't work• You will get through about half of face-to-face• Encourage a back channel - and follow it• If there is silence it is often because people are reading the

back channel - not because sound has failed• Have a collaborator watch the backchannel for you• Discourage the use of cameras "in the room”• If you are the presenter and you are on camera - remember -

you are on camera (hand/nose no no!)

EXTENDING YOUR ONLINE COURSE

• Profiles• Course focus• Week 1 activities• Sharing on this course• Reflection

Profiles

• What does your profile “say” about you• Finding profile resources• Sharing these resources– Webquest

• Leads to a general problem of sharing in this course– See • Course focus: distributed collaboration• Sharing on this course

COURSE FOCUS

Out of the almost limitless possibilities:• Audiographics and multimedia• Distributed collaboration• Social citation• Others?

Audiographics and multimedia

• Challenges– Synchronous discussion and the tyranny of now– Channel => relationship => message– Multimedia production

• Tools and resources

Distributed collaboration

• Group-work online?– Tools– The problem of sharing in this course

• Week 2 and 3 activity preview:– In your small group/pair design, develop and (next

week) display a learning activity which extends an online course through the use of social media tools.

Social citation

• Bookmarking• Reference management• Folksonomy/tagging• Tools– https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/elab/Resources

+from+Lunchtime+sessions+on+Web+2.0+for+Learning+and+Teaching

Other focus

• Portfolios?• Mobile learning?• OER?• Game-based learning?– Khan Academy

“We're full of game mechanics. As soon as you login, you'll start earning badges and points for learning. “http://www.khanacademy.org/about

WEEK 1 ACTIVITIES

• Identity, privacy and disclosure• Sharing social citation practice

Identity, privacy, disclosure

• Do you follow or friend your students?– Asynchronous discussion in the VLE forums– Resources• Again, see “Sharing on this course”

Sharing social citation

• The “obvious” thing– All get a Bibsonomy account• Friend each other• Agree some common tags

– All get a Zotero account• Share a “Library”

• What’s wrong with this picture?

• Given the complexity, how can we develop appropriate social citation practices for this course, and for courses we teach?

Sharing on this course

• Collaborative work spaces– Google docs?• Forms?

– Wiki?

Reflection

• http://extendingonline.brookesblogs.net/

• Why not just blog the whole course?

THANK YOUEnjoy the course!