Michelle PacanskyBrock

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Building Community Online, Part 4 Collaborating
Beyond Text

• Michelle Pacansky-Brock
• October 27, 2008
• This is a VoIP session.
• All audio will be through your computer without
  any phone.

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Housekeeping

• Maximize your CCC Confer window.
• Ask questions throughout presentation via the
  chat window or using your microphone (if working)
  when presenter releases the mic.
• Turn on or off Closed Captioning by clicking on
  the icon.
• Save the presentation or chat by clicking on the
  icon.
• Vote Yes or No by using the icon.

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How to use VoIP

• To listen, adjust your speaker volume (left
  bottom of window)
• To speak youll need a microphone or USB headset.
• First, run the audio wizard Tools/Audio/Audio
  Setup Wizard.
• Second, press on the mic icon when it is free
  (release when finished speaking)

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What is a VoiceThread?

• An online media album that can hold essentially
  any type of media (images, presentations,
  documents and videos).
• Allows people to make comments in 3 different
  ways -
• using voice (with a microphone or telephone)
• Text
• video (with a webcam)
• Allows group conversations to be collected and
  shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

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http//voicethread.com/share/409/
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When youre done

• Share the url (not detected through a web search)
• or
• Embed on a website or within your LMS

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Potential Educational Uses

• Discussion Board Alternative
• Visual and Oral Assessments (art, math, foreign
  language, poetry, etc.)
• Lab Reports
• Instructor or Student Presentations
• Tutorials
• Assignment/Syllabus Overview
• Digital Portfolios (end-of-semester compilation
  of work)
• Audio Feedback for Individual Students
• Other??

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Why?

• Promotes active learning
• Fulfills more learning styles
• Builds online community
• Increases instructor presence

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Discussion Board Doldrums
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Dynamic, Visual Discussions
http//voicethread.com/share/198049/
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Student Projects
http//voicethread.com/share/27168/
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Guest Speakers
http//voicethread.com/share/3511/
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ESL or Foreign Languages
http//voicethread.com/share/34182/
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Lab Reports
http//www.voicethread.com/share/50598
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An Example for Educators
http//voicethread.com/share/3352/
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What do Students Think?
http//voicethread.com/share/99673/
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Account Options
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Making a VoiceThread is Easy!

• 1. Go to www.voicethread.com
• 2. Register for your Free Account.
• 3. Click on Create.
• Upload
• Comment
• Share

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QA

• Michelle Pacansky-Brock
• mpb_at_eduvate21.com
• 916-316-9425

VoiceThread - more info http//voicethread.com/abo
ut
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Evaluation Survey Link

• http//tinyurl.com/68z9pk

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Thanks for Attending

• For upcoming desktop seminars and links to
  recently archived seminars, check the _at_ONE Web
  site at
• http//www.cccone.org/seminars/index.php