collaboration
Collaborate
Tue, 2012-11-20 11:58 — dfarris
Collaborate is a cooperative synchronous online meeting place utilizing a rich Web communication system that lets you reach your audience anytime, anywhere with engaging multimedia content. Collaborate can be used with a combination of voice, video, text and desktop sharing which presents a robust environment for online learning, meetings, training courses and on-demand presentations.
There are two ways to create/manage meetings in Collaborate.
1) If you are an instructor using D2L, you can create Online Rooms for your class and students. For more information go to http://help.d2l.arizona.edu/instructors/online_rooms
2) Anyone with a UANetID can create and manage Collaborate Live meetings/sessions.
(For classes, we recommend you create a single meeting space with a single start and end date for the duration of the semester and reuse the url, rather than create a new url for each meeting)
- Share applications, screens, images and documents with participants
- Integrate tools to whiteboard or overlay annotations on slides, video and other content
- Record, capture, and playback Collaborate sessions for a later time — a useful feature for students
- Gather real-time feedback through polls
For instructors:
- Allows you to bring PowerPoint slides, digital video and other types of media into live meetings
- Allows you integrate the tool into the D2L Course Management System for the easy transfer of files to facilitate collaborations
For students:
- Allows collaboration with other students
- Allows students to engage in course related activities in a single environment
- Teaches students new technology skills
- Students and faculty don't need to be in the same location at the same time in order to conduct a class or office hours.
- A cost effective way to "bring in" a guest speaker.
- The survey tool can be used as a classroom clicker or responder tool.
- Record a meeting for students who missed a class or need to review.
- Facilitate class meetings and student group meetings across diverse geographic locations.
- Use the chat feature to create more engaging discussions.
- Students can use Collaborate to work on group projects.
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Instructional Blogging
Mon, 2009-07-20 13:04 — maritzaqA number of faculty and instructors at the UA have introduced instructional blogging into their courses. Blogs are simple educational technology tools that lend themselves to a wide range of pedagogical styles, disciplines and course levels. There are a number of free blogging resources available: Blogger, TypePad, Live Journal and Wordpress are four of the most popular. The Office of Instruction and Assessment has installed and maintained Movable Type on a server and maintains that for the campus.
Blogs are easy to use. Entries may be created in the display area much like composing in word processing sofware. Text is typed and words may be selected by highlighting to add hyperlinks and format with bold or italics. A powerful stylesheet controls the published entry's appearance.
In hybrid and fully online courses, blogs can promote community, provide a virtual space to discuss course readings, share ideas and further knowledge. Instructors may find having one place to address course activities is convenient.
A Journalism professor uses student-created blogs to augment the teaching of abstract skills and values (truth telling, ethics, and critical thinking) as well as practical skills (the integration of multimedia into news story telling) that are necessary for new professionals in journalism as well as many other fields.
An English 101/102 instructor has students submit their assignments via their blog. He teaches them ways to provide constructive feedback to each other's writing and make substantive comments using the entry's comments feature.
Blogging @ the OIA: Best Practices & Case Studies
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