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Entries from May 2006

Activity 3.1: Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication

May 20th, 2006 · 3 Comments

SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION: Transfer of information without delay
Examples:

Tradtional stand up teaching
Video conferencing
Webinars or web-conferencing
Tele-conferencing or audio-conferencing
VOIP: Voice Over Internet Protocols
Chat, MSN

Advantages:

Motivation: focuses the energy of group and encourages students to keep up with their peers and continue with study
Telepresence: helps create a feeling of community and classroom cohesion
Feedback: rapid feedback foster consensus-building in group activities
Pacing: helps [...]

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Tags: Module 3: Communication & Facilitation Technologie

Module 2 completed

May 19th, 2006 · Comments Off

After some minor dramas, our Learning Technology wiki is finally complete. It looks quite impressive, if I do say so myself… It will be interesting to open it up to the public and see if people contribute to it.
Now I am free to get started on Module 3, along with the other million assignments that are due [...]

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Technical Difficulties

May 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

I’d just like comment on a inefficiency of wikispaces – the most frustrating piece of software in the world.
I have tried to post one of the activies onto the website, and I have realised wikispaces has a mind of its own. The text is bold where it is clearly not supposed to be bold, tables [...]

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Activities 2.5 and 2.7

May 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

The word documents for activities 2.5 and 2.7 can be found here:
(Tag, I’ve just put your work into word, and formatted it to match the other activities )
Activity 2.5
Activity 2.7

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Tags: Module 2: Multimedia & Emergent Technologies