Interaction: Social Media Tools and Collaboration

Office of Learning & TechnologyPurdue University North Central

Today’s Goals

Use the Quality Matters rubric and Standards 5 and 6 to help guide your course development

Develop opportunities aligned with course objectives for students to engage in class – online or off

Use WebEx to promote both synchronous and asynchronous interaction in your classroom

Aligning Interaction and Tools As with other

standards, QM stresses alignment of interaction and technology tools to course objectives

Always keep objectives in mind and use them as guidance when developing activities or choosing technologies

Good objective verbs for promoting interaction: Discuss Present Analyze Solve Design Compare and Contrast Critique Argue

To group or not to group? Group projects can

sometimes become headaches for both students and instructors

While there are benefits, there are often challenges in coordination and getting students to truly collaborate

Collaborating on the Web In an online class,

groupwork gets a little more complicated

Individual responsibilities and assessment is even more important

Considering offering both synchronous and asynchronous options for working together

Synchronous tools: WebEx, Google Hangouts, Skype, Facebook chat, phone/text

Asynchronous tools: Discussion boards, wikis, Trello.com, email, Facebook groups

WebEx Overview WebEx is a Web communication system that allows

users to reach others online anytime in a live conference

What can it be used for? Webinars Classroom Lectures Virtual Office Hours Distance Learning Professional Development User Collaboration on content

Available WebEx app for iPhone/Android allows talk and text chat, reviewing of content, some file sharing

WebEx for Collaboration

Meetings and the personal conference room are the most popular and common way to set up a conference

Simple, easy to get started at any time One student can share the link to

others to connect Meetings can be recorded for later

viewing (or to share with instructors who want records!)

WebEx – Getting Started All users with a Purdue account have access

(even students) Visit http://purdue.webex.com to log in Webcam and microphone needed Start a conference – four types:

Meeting: For interactive presentations of a general nature

Event: For scheduled online events and webinars Training: To administer online tests or quizzes, and

conduct lab sessions or virtual office hours Support: For helping others work through

technological issues by sharing screens

Setting Up a Quick Meeting Login to WebEx at

http://purdue.webex.com Click Meeting Center Open your personal room –

http://purdue.webex.com/meet/[yourusername]

WebEx Meeting Management

Go over basic etiquette with students, like not talking over one another or changing the slides

You can mute participant microphones and manage access on the fly

Have students use the chat feature for questions (in case they cannot use the microphone)

Practice good etiquette in the room: Try not to speak over others Communicate effectively Respect network delays/lags

Personal Meeting Room Notes You must be in the room first before

others can enter You can share the link to anyone –

they don’t have to log in Schedule a meeting and make the

link available if you want students to meet on their own

Meeting Room Interface

WebEx and Accessibility At this time, WebEx has no automatic or

live transcription available – if transcription is needed, contact Disability Services

Share visuals that include both text and graphics to accommodate more students

Be mindful of both technological and processing delays and allow extra time for responses when you ask a question

Share handouts, notes, and transcriptions along with your recordings

Recording WebEx Sessions WebEx records through the Recorder

button in the top right of your meeting window

Make sure to click the Red Record Button in the lower right to start recording!

Accessing Published Recordings All published recordings go to the Kaltura

MediaSpace: http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu

You may log in at the MediaSpace website to access links to all recordings

You may also access recordings in BlackBoard through the Build Content -> Kaltura command

There is a lag time between recording and accessing the finished recorded link, which can be several hours depending on length

MediaSpace.itap.purdue.edu

Kaltura in BlackBoard

Alternative: Google Hangout

Google Hangout is a free alternative to Adobe Connect if your students need a meeting room or a tool for collaboration http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangout

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Available on: Windows Mac Tablets (iOS & Android) Mobile Devices (iOS & Android)

Facebook Groups Facebook can be a

great way to get people together

Can be used synchronously or asynchronously

You can create groups or encourage students to create them on their own

Creates a more informal, fun space for discussion

BlackBoard Discussions Classic, simple threaded

discussion forum Perfect for asynchronous

debate, brainstorming, and peer review

Create threads (messages) then reply to start conversation

Forums can be graded by points or rubrics

Subscribe to forums to receive message notifications in email

Grading a discussion

BlackBoard Group Features BlackBoard has some

basic group tools including self-signup, group discussions, and group assignments

Group Tools can be a little difficult for students to understand at first, but can be useful

See http://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Instructor/080_Collaboration/050_Course_Groups

Other Cool Tools

Trello.com Answergarden.co

m MindMeister.com Mural.ly FlockDraw AWWApp.com More at

http://www.creativebloq.com/design/online-collaboration-tools-912855

Even More Great Tools

Kahoot GoFormative Socrative EdPuzzle Padlet Todaysmeet Smore Canva Piktochart

Resources WebEx: http://purdue.webex.com Kaltura MediaSpace:

http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu WebEx help at PNC:

https://www.pnc.edu/distance/webex/ WebEx support online: http://

www.webex.com/support/getting-started.html

Dropbox Set up a Dropbox account: https://db.tt/WMoTuUy

Thanks!

Reach us at: pncolt@pnc.edu Twitter and Facebook: @PNCOLT http://www.pnc.edu/distance for all

workshop notes, links, and training needs