Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Web Conferencing

At the last IT advisory group meeting I shared a spreadsheet of tools we have been considering adopting. One we know we want is something for web conferencing. When facilitating classes online it is nice to have a something that allows all participants to communicate with the group easily. Another use that is common in [...]

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Creating DE courses

There are faculty exploring teaching and learning online throughout the college. This is pretty cool given there is no eLearning (distance and hybrid education) strategic plan in the College of Education & Human Ecology. The OTEL Instructioal Technology group has been working with several faculty to help with a wide variety of aspects involved in [...]

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Synchronous Communication Tools

Bummer OSU isn’t going to offer Elluminate as a synchronous communication option to OSU faculty any time soon. They do, however, offer webmeeting. Webmeeting seems to be DimDim lite. In webmeeting only the host and 3 others can communicate via audio. However, the host can pass the mic to other participants. It is possible to [...]

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

What’s out there

I’ve been thinking of what’s out there in terms of Web 2.0ish tools that might hold potential within teaching and learning. So… I made a quick version 1 list. Some of the items are centrally hosted by OSU, at least as a pilot if not completely. The rest are free. This list is by no [...]