Welcome to Voice Tools: Increasing Interaction Online

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Welcome to Voice Tools Increasing Interaction
Online

• Before we begin
• 1. You will need a headset or speakers to hear
  other participants.
• 2. Please check your volume by clicking on the
  Tools menu (above), then Audio, and then Audio
  Set Up Wizard. Follow the wizard to configure
  your audio settings.
• 3. To speak to the group, click the microphone
  button in the bottom left corner of the screen.
  When you have finished speaking, click this
  button again to release the microphone.
• 4. At any time you can send a text message to the
  whole group or to individual participants. Use
  the field in the lower left corner within the
  Direct Messaging area. Please note Moderators
  will be able to view all posts.

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Upcoming Events

• Differentiation in the Online Classroom with
  Virtual School StudentsDate Tuesday, October 21
  Time 430-530 PM ETPresenter Dr. Jackie
  Mangieri, Online Instructor, Mississippi Virtual
  School
• Leading Schools in a Web 2.0 WorldDate
  Thursday, December 11Time 200-300 PM
  ETPresenters Mike Thun, South Carolina
  Department of Education, and Leinda Peterman,
  EdTech Leaders Online

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Voice Tools Increasing Interaction in Online
Professional Development

• Jenni Keith
• MA Curriculum InstructionEducational
  Technology
• PD Provider Coordinatore-Learning
  KentuckyKentucky Department of Education
• Texas Master Technology Teacher

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Why Voice?

• Humanize and personalize
• Increase the instructor presence
• Facilitate and promote collaboration community
• Increase interaction and engagement
• Model, encourage, promote, teach 21st Century
  Learning Skills
• All of these conditions enable an increased
  understanding of content and overall
  satisfaction of participants, and ultimately
  achievement for K-12 students!

Many, Varied Uses

• building community
• problem solving
• question and answer sessions
• brainstorming
• guest presentations  
• learner oral presentations

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Implementation - Fall07 Pilot Semester
Voice Emails Voice Recorder
Introduce each Session Push the
Envelope Podcasting Voice Board Voice
Presentation
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Preparing Supporting Facilitators
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Preparing Supporting Participants

• Introduce and explain Why voice tools?
• Assume they know nothing
• Detail what you want and how it can be
  accomplished
• Provide technical assistance

• Always duplicate voice messages in text unless
  you have 100 participation without technical
  difficulties
• Let them know youre always there to help
• Encourage Pronto use
• Questions? Possible Problems

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Voice Tools Increasing Interaction OPD
Courses Communities of Practice K-12 Students

• Norka PadillaMA Curriculum Instruction
• Nationally Board Certified
• Coordinator of Online Communities of Practice
• e-Learning Kentucky
• English as a New Language Specialist

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Increasing Interaction

• Provides authentic, engaging learning tasks
• Satisfies learning style needs
• Addresses cultural learning needs
• Provides for developmentally appropriate language
  acquisition
• Stimulates adolescent learning needs
• Leads 21st century learning skills
• Increasing peer to peer collaboration
• Promotes student self evaluation
• Increases speaking opportunity through repetition
• All students participate safely
• Supports development of reading fluency
• Links students to home and community
• Models Can Dos for general education teachers
• Demonstrates best practices
• Technology as a learning tool not a tool to learn

• Voice Tools with Students
• Wimba Podcaster
• Voice Board/Recorder
• Voice Presenter

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Voice Tools Increasing Interaction OPD Courses

• Burt GranofskyCurriculum Developer and Online
  Facilitator
• EdTech Leaders Online

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Voice as a Facilitation Tool in OPD

• Wanted to
• Connect with participants in more familiar way
• Get away from interacting purely through text
• Take advantage of freely-available communication
  tools
• Summarize session discussions
• Learn how to use different voice tools
• Tools I used
• Audacity (audio recording program)
• iSight camera/iMovie (video programs for Mac)

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Observations

• Some participants preferred audio summaries,
  others preferred video summaries
• Summaries were a topic of conversation in
  discussion board brought group together
• Many participants wanted to learn more about how
  to integrate voice tools into facilitation
• Allowed me to frame issues in my own words, which
  personalized my facilitation