Edublogs Live

“This post was written by Di Bedard”
On Thursday, July 16th I had the pleasure of chatting with my Edublog colleagues and lead a discussion about “Personal Identity and Your Online Persona”
While I’ve blogged about this topic in the past, I’ll post the up-to-date version of my comments here, along with the links to all the [...]

“This post was written by Sue Waters”
This third session from “Go Wild With Wikis” series (Classroom 2.0 beginners series) started with a discussion of reasons why students may be reluctant to participate online and then was a ‘hand-on’ interactive session where participants worked in teams to learn more about using wikis for collaboration.
A common assumption [...]

“This post was written by Sue Waters”
Regardless of your personal feelings towards Facebook it is the preferred method of social networking for many people. But are you using Facebook to your advantage?
This session was designed to help both people new to using Facebook and more experienced users get more out of using Facebook.
It was [...]

“This post was written by Sue Waters”
This second session from “Go Wild With Wikis” series (Classroom 2.0 beginners series) focused on the reasons why wikis are used for collaborative projects, tips for collaborating using wikis and showcased examples of global collaborative projects that use wikis.
Experience of participants who attended the session in terms of using [...]

Wikis are a great place to start for people new to the online world because they are relatively easy to use, feel similar to using MS Word and their appearance is more like traditional web sites.
This first session from this three part “Go Wild With Wikis” series facilitated by Sue Waters, from the Classroom 2.0 [...]

Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) when used effectively extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community.  Unfortunately it’s hard to make people new to social networking appreciate the importance of developing a PLN because they need to experience its impact themselves.
During this unconference type session Sue [...]

The purpose of this session was to show how features like breakout rooms, application sharing and web tours while also giving participants an opportunity to use Elluminate features themselves.

Warm Up Activity
It started with Jenny Wood demonstrating a short warm of activity she uses to engage learners in virtual classrooms (watch our recording from time 0 [...]

Virtual classrooms are essential aspect of training at Jo Hart’s College as their students are spread across the Wheatbelt region (155,000 km²) of Western Australia.
Jo has used Elluminate for the past 3 years with her remote students and facilitated Elluminate professional development.  During this show Jo highlights tips and tricks she uses to make virtual [...]