Daily Bookmarks 06/25/2007
Designer eLearning: Promoting Collaboration – Horton Summary
- Summary of William Horton’s comparison of online collaboration tools: email, asynchronous discussion boards, chat, whiteboards, and screen sharing.
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‘Building Accessible Websites’ (Joe Clark; 2006.01.29)
- Joe Clark’s accessibility book–full text available online. I have a print copy, but it’s nice to know that it’s available online to search or share with others.
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Demonstration of Different ways to Play a Sound from a Web Page
- A couple of methods to embed and play audio in a web page. Each fix indicates whether it works on IE, Firefox, and/or Opera, although these are somewhat old fixes and were tested on older versions.
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Online Lectures: Benefits for the Virtual Classroom : August 2001 : THE Journal
- Explores the benefits of synchronous discussion, including social presence and a sense of community.
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Tremblay: Best Practices and Collaborative Software In Online Teaching Annotated
- Beginning with a discussion of the benefits of synchronous discussion in online courses, this paper presents some best practices for interactivity and synchronous chat.
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They focus group energy, they permit real-time interaction (which can help develop group cohesion, especially for those less familiar with media-based learning) and, most importantly, they provide a familiar instructional environment that mimic many positive features found in the traditional classroom environment (i.e., synchronicity, verbal rather than text-based interaction, instructor presence, whiteboard presentation facilities, hand-raising for turn-taking, public and private messaging capabilities).
Synchronous Learning Model over the Internet
- Guidelines for synchronous discussions focused how to effectively use these tools to promote learning.
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This paper describes an on-line synchronous learning model that aims to provide guidelines for teachers and students to conduct synchronous instruction.
Successful Synchronous and Asynchronous Discussions
- Compares synchronous and asynchronous discussions. This 1-page PDF compares planning, implementing, and evaluating discussions with either synchronous or asynchronous tools.
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Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
- Ethnographic study about class divisions in MySpace and Facebook. MySpace tends to attract more teens from working class and immigrant families, while Facebook attracts more college-bound, upwardly mobile high schoolers.
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Good links.