Learning to Use Web Conferencing with Blackboard Collaborate

Learning to use Blackboard Collaborate

Anne Mirtschin

Uses of conferencing?

• Expert speakers• Virtual tours• Virtual discussions• eBrainstorming in real time• Online meetings• Videoconferencing • Online conferences/PD• etc

Why?•Distance and isolation no longer a disadvantage•Reduced or negligible costs•Little effort•Effective and interactive•Enables virtual teams and blended learning•Captures the learning •Virtual Global classrooms•Learning socially•Extensive range of tools

Emoticons/actions

Actions!

Have you been in elluminate before?

If so, choose the tick, if not choose the red cross

The chat

Add profiles

Sample Classroom Uses

Ping Project 2009

11 +1

12 +2

2

11 +1

12 +2

13

Cross adding12+1 or 11+2 gives 13

Vedic Maths with Sebastian Panakal Kerula India

Teaching anywhere, anytime, anyway!

Unpacking the virtual classroom!

The audio setup

The backchannel – the chat!

• Participants have a voice!Questions

Share opinionsAdd to discussion

Share my knowledge/resources

.......................more chat!

• dont confuse me this tinme• i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit

side• i always get confused between debtors and

creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??

Participants

• Ability to save a list of participants • Attendance roll

THE AUSTRALIA SERIES

Alicia Boyle NT (Participant)Carole McCulloch (Moderator)Junita Lyon (Moderator)gayle webster (Participant)Liz Diamond (Participant)Pauline Wilson (Moderator)Sandra (Moderator)Ian Hall (Participant)

The Whiteboard

Used with permission from Delise Oldfield

Drawing on the whiteboard

2 minutes 2 play!

Presentations

Using indicators

Application sharing

Application Sharing

The Video• Important for community building –

sense of how we look• Share objects over web cam• Can pull down bandwidth

A student is demonstrating ‘slap stick guitar’ as learnt from youtube to a group of online teachers

File sending

Web Tourshttp://www. (key in the web address to share)

Polls

The recording• Replay any time -Allows rewind, fast forward, room is

‘live’• Absenteeism• MisunderstandingHere is what it looks like• This session was recorded. To view the recording, please

click the link below:• This session was recorded. To view the recording, please click the

link below:

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-08-15.2337.M.2C8DB30F3348884020306CF1908350.vcr&sid=2007026

Save......• Chat – urls are active• Whiteboards – pdf, png, wbd• Participants

Constraints• Access to the internet• Bandwidth speed• Sound:- are you talking? cause i dont hear

anything• Sorry, I am on a very bad connection tonight,

so it is very slow.

Online Webinars

• Tech Talk Tuesdays 4-5pmhttp://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au

• eT@lking Wed 8-9pmhttp://australiaseries.wordpress.com

Web conference coaches

• 4 coaches availableSee Web conference centre of DEECDhttp://education.vic.edu.au

Or Educators Guide to Innovationhttp://guidetoinnovation.ning.com

To contact a web conference coach

Great resources

• http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2011/08/blackboard-collaborate-v-11.html

Online webinar explaining many elements of Blackboard Collaborate

• Tech Talk Tuesdays serendipity session on using BBC effectively

http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/09/19/tech-talk-tuesdays-what-have-you-been-up-2-0-in-review/

Develop a Learning Network

Online conferences• Reform Symposium Conference• Global Education Conference• K12 Online Education Conference• Learncentral (http://learncentral.org)• Webinars: Tech Talk Tuesdays, eT@lking,

ClassroomLIVE2.0