Asynchronous communication

Asynchronous Communication

Day 8 – Wednesday, June 11, 2014

9:15-10:15am

Academic Technology Services

Asynchronous Communication Session Overview

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

Understand and describe differences between

various asynchronous communication tools

Identify appropriate tools that will achieve your

teaching goals

Facilitate engaging and thoughtful discussions

with your students

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What are asynchronous

communication tools? Asynchronous, or ‘Anytime, Anywhere

Tools’, allow your students to fully

participate at their own convenience.

There is no specified meeting time, or

schedule that they must abide by.

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A few asynchronous tools we will be

introducing are: Discussion Forums

Email and messaging

Blogs

Wikis

Journals

Announcements

Groups

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Let’s Define: Discussion Forum

An Internet forum, or message board,

where people can hold conversations in

the form of posted messages. A single

topic, or conversation is called a ‘thread’

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Let’s Define: Email

Electronic mail – a message composed at one

computer terminal that is received by

another user at a computer terminal

Blackboard acts only as a launch pad for

email and users receive it in their

@sandiego.edu mailbox

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Let’s Define: Messaging

Within Blackboard, messaging is much

like email that is contained within the

application and not sent to actual email

addresses.

WebCT users: Email is now Messaging

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Let’s Define: Blog

A ‘web log’ or blog is a site on which an

individual or group of users record

opinions, information, etc. on a regular

basis.

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Let’s Define: Wiki

A web site developed collaboratively by a

community of users, allowing any user to

add and edit content.

Wikipedia and Google docs are good

examples

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Let’s Define: Journal

A personal record of occurrences,

experiences kept on a regular basis, also

referred to as a diary, and in education is

often reflective in nature.

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Let’s Define: Announcements

A notification, statement, or broadcast

message

In Blackboard, an instructor tool that

posts a message within the class, and

sends an email to the students enrolled

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Group Tools: If you use ‘Groups’ to cluster your students for team projects, the

following tools can be made available to them: * Blogs

Collaboration

Discussion Boards

Email

File Exchange

* Journals

Tasks

* Wikis

* These items are gradable

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Education

Asynchronous communication