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Sharing the Blackboard Collaborate tools with 'hands on' conference participants at a recent conference. Examples from classroom use are included.
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Learning to use Blackboard Collaborate
Anne Mirtschin
Uses of conferencing?
• Expert speakers• Virtual tours• Virtual discussions• eBrainstorming in real time• Online meetings• Videoconferencing • Online conferences/PD• etc
Why?•Distance and isolation no longer a disadvantage•Reduced or negligible costs•Little effort•Effective and interactive•Enables virtual teams and blended learning•Captures the learning •Virtual Global classrooms•Learning socially•Extensive range of tools
Emoticons/actions
Actions!
Have you been in elluminate before?
If so, choose the tick, if not choose the red cross
The chat
Add profiles
Sample Classroom Uses
Ping Project 2009
11 +1
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11 +1
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Cross adding12+1 or 11+2 gives 13
Vedic Maths with Sebastian Panakal Kerula India
Teaching anywhere, anytime, anyway!
Unpacking the virtual classroom!
The audio setup
The backchannel – the chat!
• Participants have a voice!Questions
Share opinionsAdd to discussion
Share my knowledge/resources
.......................more chat!
• dont confuse me this tinme• i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit
side• i always get confused between debtors and
creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??
Participants
• Ability to save a list of participants • Attendance roll
THE AUSTRALIA SERIES
Alicia Boyle NT (Participant)Carole McCulloch (Moderator)Junita Lyon (Moderator)gayle webster (Participant)Liz Diamond (Participant)Pauline Wilson (Moderator)Sandra (Moderator)Ian Hall (Participant)
The Whiteboard
Used with permission from Delise Oldfield
Drawing on the whiteboard
2 minutes 2 play!
Presentations
Using indicators
Application sharing
Application Sharing
The Video• Important for community building –
sense of how we look• Share objects over web cam• Can pull down bandwidth
A student is demonstrating ‘slap stick guitar’ as learnt from youtube to a group of online teachers
File sending
Polls
The recording• Replay any time -Allows rewind, fast forward, room is
‘live’• Absenteeism• MisunderstandingHere is what it looks like• This session was recorded. To view the recording, please
click the link below:• This session was recorded. To view the recording, please click the
link below:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-15.2337.M.2C8DB30F3348884020306CF1908350.vcr&sid=2007026
Save......• Chat – urls are active• Whiteboards – pdf, png, wbd• Participants
Constraints• Access to the internet• Bandwidth speed• Sound:- are you talking? cause i dont hear
anything• Sorry, I am on a very bad connection tonight,
so it is very slow.
Online Webinars
• Tech Talk Tuesdays 4-5pmhttp://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
• eT@lking Wed 8-9pmhttp://australiaseries.wordpress.com
Web conference coaches
• 4 coaches availableSee Web conference centre of DEECDhttp://education.vic.edu.au
Or Educators Guide to Innovationhttp://guidetoinnovation.ning.com
To contact a web conference coach
Great resources
• http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2011/08/blackboard-collaborate-v-11.html
Online webinar explaining many elements of Blackboard Collaborate
• Tech Talk Tuesdays serendipity session on using BBC effectively
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/09/19/tech-talk-tuesdays-what-have-you-been-up-2-0-in-review/
Develop a Learning Network
Online conferences• Reform Symposium Conference• Global Education Conference• K12 Online Education Conference• Learncentral (http://learncentral.org)• Webinars: Tech Talk Tuesdays, eT@lking,
ClassroomLIVE2.0
