web conferencing for learning (using blackboard collaborate)

Web conferencing for Learningusing Blackboardcollaborate

• Students could ask all those questions they have immediately ?

• We could encourage the quietest of students to have ‘a voice’?

• We could blend our classrooms vertically and horizontally?

• Flip our classrooms?• Enable powerful 24/7 learning?

• Classes could participate in virtual excursions?• Work with expert speakers without leaving

our classrooms• Offer a full range of subjects to all students

across the state or district• Illness no longer prevents students attending

school• Engage our students!

Web conferencing – some examples Ping Project 2009

Learning from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra saxophonist

Grade 3 meet the Minister for Finance

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Learning Vedic Maths from Sebastian Panakal Kerula India

Teaching anywhere, anytime to anyone!

Unpacking the virtual classroom- using Blackboard Collaborate!

Participants

• Ability to include class, local, statewide, national or global participants.

• Ability to save a list of participants • Attendance roll • Can involve students, adults, experts,

communityTHE AUSTRALIA SERIES

Alicia NT (Participant)Carole (Moderator)Junita (Moderator)gayle (Participant)Liz (Participant)Pauline (Moderator)Sandra (Moderator)Ian (Participant)

The Whiteboard

Used with permission from Delise OldfieldEducation OfficerWarrnambool Art Gallery

The whiteboard tool bar

Year 11 IT students use the tools to draw their favourite technology

Interactivity

Collaboration

Application sharing

Sharing Student/Teacher screens

The backchannel – the chat!• Students have a voice!

QuestionsShare opinions

Add to discussionShare knowledge

.......................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??

Stock turnover

• whats with the 3 times per anum??• how do we know how many it is?• yes but how do you know how many per

anum??

You can’t ask questions of a

textbook!

The Video• Important to share what we look like• Share objects over web cam• Video use may pull down bandwidth

Student demonstrating skills learnt using youtube

File transfer to participants

Sending files through elluminate

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

Polls

The recording feature• Revision• Fantastic feature for students who are absent• No-one misses out!• Understanding and revision - Allows rewind, fast forward,

room is ‘live’• Ability to flip classrooms

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The Breakout Rooms

• Small group work• Discussion groups• Interest based groups• Individual Students put in there for revision,

or to complete tasks given• Time-out room for students who misbehave.• Technical help room – for participants who

have audio issues etc

Sample Breakout Rooms

The timer

• Start on time – set for a countdown• Keeps conversations concise and to the point!• Sets time limit on tasks

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

And more....

• Quiz making facility• Media upload• Remote desktop sharing• etc

Changing pedagogy

• The confused button is displayed as soon as a student misunderstands – need to re-teach to confusion and questions!

(Eg dont confuse me this tinme andi always get confused between debtors and

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

Constraints• Mouse! (a real one!)• Access to the internet• Sound:- are you talking? cause i dont hear

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

so it is very slow.

Stories from the classroom!

Earth science weekTwo world experts speak to years 5 to 11Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong on the Hong Kong GeoParkin elluminate.

Classes from Victoria, interested Experts/adults from Hong Kong, China etc all in the classroom.

Ian Lewis on Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves

From the chat!

• Wow• Turtle: sick as• Ha look at that!• Turtle: been here• Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more

about the sink hole Ian?• Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through

records from when they first evoved

And also....

• Joshua: i like red rock• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR• we are going there soon• It's pretty :)• do you know where mt eccells??• water looks awesome• Looks good to swim in ;)• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?• do you know where mt eccells is??• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

The Bats

• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing• smithy: arent they posisoness• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?• jasmine .j: do they hurt• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

Friends of the Earth

Asian Connections - Malaus

Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

What skills are important to learn?

What symbol best describes your country?

The emu

Pushing the Boundaries!

Virtual Teaching Rounds for preservice practicum teachers

Techno Parents

• Broad representation of staff including Principal

• Parents of Preps through to Year 10• Students, staff, parents all learning in the one

room• Share happenings in classroom and school• Darwin teacher linkup – toys exchange• Feedback

Boston Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT class

Halloween

A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.

AlternativesBack Channel or Chat• Chatzy• Tinychat• Todays Meet• Hootcourse• Google for more!

The video

• Skype• Oovoo• gchatVideo• Ichat• MS Communicator• And many more

An online whiteboard

• Scriblink• Skrbl• Jotspace• And many more

Virtual Classrooms

Flatclassroom Project Student Summit

Global Education Conference

Online Webinars

• Tech Talk Tuesdays 4-5pm (gmt+10)http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au

• eT@lking Wed 8-9pm (gmt+10)http://australiaseries.wordpress.com

• ClassroomLIVE 2.0 series and many more

Web conference coaches

• 4 coaches available for Victorian teachers, Australia

See Web conference centre of DEECD

Or Educators Guide to Innovation

To contact a web conference coach

Develop a Learning Network

Online conferences – some samples• Reform Symposium Conference• Global Education Conference• K12 Online Education Conference• Learncentral (http://learncentral.org)• Webinars: ClassroomLIVE2.0