Skip to main content

Home/ MOODLE for Teachers/ Group items tagged chat

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
J.Randolph Radney

New Jersey Education Association - 0 views

www.njea.org/page.aspx

Todaysmeet backchannel backchanneling collaboration web2.0 education technology chat engagement

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 28 Jul 10
     
    Using backchanneling in class is like having the chat session in a WiZiQ M4T session.
J.Randolph Radney

eClassroom News - Strong communication key to online learning - 3 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...classroom-news

eclassroom

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 01 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Teaching in an online environment isn't the same as teaching in a traditional classroom, and online instructors need special skills and approaches to be successful. For example, communication can pose a challenge in online-learning environments, because online educators can't rely on visual cues as their colleagues can in bricks-and-mortar schools. Now, a new research brief from the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) looks at this challenge in greater detail, examining how successful programs and teachers are ensuring effective communication.
  • Teachers must use eMail, frequent telephone conversations, and collaborative tools, such as threaded discussions and synchronous chats, to closely connect with students.
  • Effective online teaching practices must include quickly responding to student and parent inquiries.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Teachers must know, and be skilled at using, web-based technologies that offer students opportunities for collaborative learning.
  • Synchronous instruction brings teachers and students together simultaneously in virtual spaces, which "implies that virtual teachers need to become skillful at using chat room and collaborative software," says the report.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 01 Jan 10
     
    This is the beginning of a report on communication needs for online learners.
Janet Bianchini

TokBox- Group video chat - 4 views

lifefeast.blogspot.com/...tokbox-group-video-chat.html

web2.0 education learning technology howto tutorials video

shared by Janet Bianchini on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Janet Bianchini on 25 Jan 10
     
    This looks like a very interesting tool to explore! Found via LifeFeast Blog.
J.Randolph Radney

How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement - 8 views

mashable.com/...twitter-classroom

twitter classroom engagement web2.0 technology teaching

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 12 Mar 10
     
    Although this article is about the use of Twitter in the classroom to provide a backchannel for discussion during lectures, I find that the Chat tools in MOODLE work really well for students who are in my face-to-face sessions. They love the possibility of chatting during class (with my permission--and they are aware of my monitoring the discussion), and students who must miss class staying home with a sick child, etc. can ask questions and get answers from students who are in the session.
  • Janet Bianchini on 12 Mar 10
     
    Thanks Radney for this. I found this article very useful especially the quote "the integration of Twitter has been a virtually bureaucracy-free endeavor". I also liked this "Twitter helps to overcome the shyness barrier" - a good point.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 12 Mar 10
     
    Yes, the shyness factor is a major one in engaging students in class activities. I find that the more text-based the participation, the more engaged shy students become.
J.Randolph Radney

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...11digi.html

computers digital elearning

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • MIDDLE SCHOOL students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation.
  • Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
  • At that time, most Romanian households were not yet connected to the Internet. But few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Catherine Maloney, director of the Texas center, said the schools did their best to mandate that the computers would be used strictly for educational purposes. Most schools configured the machines to block e-mail, chat, games and Web sites reached by searching on objectionable key words. The key-word blocks worked fine for English-language sites but not for Spanish ones. “Kids were adept at getting around the blocks,” she said. How disappointing to read in the Texas study that “there was no evidence linking technology immersion with student self-directed learning or their general satisfaction with schoolwork.” When devising ways to beat school policing software, students showed an exemplary capacity for self-directed learning. Too bad that capacity didn’t expand in academic directions, too.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jul 10
     
    This article was referenced in the M4T intermediate course recently.
J.Randolph Radney

koowy - 3 views

www.koowy.com

koowy video chat

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 02 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 02 Dec 10
     
    This is similar to Etherpad, but with video capability.
J.Randolph Radney

About « TodaysMeet - 5 views

todaysmeet.com/about

todaysmeet backchannel

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 08 Jan 10
     
    This is a good site for improptu meetings (chat only) that need to be set up in a hurry. Some teams may want to use it, if only part of the team has access to other synchronous meeting tools (Skype is blocked at some institutions, I think).
J.Randolph Radney

Today's Meet - 3 views

todaysmeet.com

web2.0 tools classroom collaboration backchannel education chat

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 13 Mar 10
     
    Here is an on-the-fly place to create a text chatroom for synchronous sessions.
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

eduMOOC Discussions on Moodle - 2 views

www.integrating-technology.org/...view.php

#eduMOOC Moodle for Discussions e-learning MOOC

shared by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on 03 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch on 03 Jul 11
     
    An open forum for chatting about eduMOOC's e-learning and topic of the week. When adding new discussions please use M1, M2, M3...M8 (Topics for each of the weeks of eduMOOC) for discussions related to Module 1, 2, 3...8 and G for General discussion before your title. Feel free to suggest/add other subject headings.
1 - 9 of 9
Showing 20▼ items per page