CHECET course
Prof Dick Ng’ambi
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
Presented at the CHECET course on 2 May 2012
Outline
• Challenge of designing learning activities to focus today’s multi-tasking students
• Educator’s assumptions underlying choice of tools
• Affordances of online conferencing tool – Adobe Connect
• Using Adobe Connect for visual presentations• Re-using recorded Adobe Connect meetings
Today’s multi-tasking student. How do we design learning to properly focus these students?
Assumptions underpinning some uses of tools
Adobe Connect affordances
Adobe Connect
One-to-One mtg
Small group mtg
Dispersed audience
Mixed mtg
Facilitator & participants in same room
Participants at a distance
Adapted from: Andy Benoit
The different teaching possibilities with Adobe connect
Adobe Connect Meeting Room
http://meeting.uct.ac.za/checetdemo/
Ensure that you have installed flash plugin before attempting to run Adobe Comment. Use this demo site to test out as a guest.
Learning from smaller chunks of content – finding the appropriate piece to match your puzzle
The image shared in Adobe Connect and concept explained to participants
Drawing tools to enhance explanation
I am yet to find my puzzle piece!
Example of Adobe Session
Recorded meeting: http://meeting.uct.ac.za/p89401296/
Salmon’s 5-Stage Model: useful for online teaching/moderation