eTeachers extended eOffice

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e-Teachers extended e-Office

• Amaury Daele
• Did_at_cTIC University of Fribourg (CH)
• eduhub Online Conference
• October 9, 2008

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Issues

• Regarding a team of teachers/researchers
• Distributed working teams
• Organising collaboration/communication
• Producing common documents/resources
• Sharing (external/innovative) documents/resources
• Keeping in touch, activity awareness
• Keeping tracks
• Regarding individuals
• Remaining connected
• but free
• Organising ones work
• Managing ones movement
• Energizing ones courses

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Moodle

• For internal communication
• For keeping tracks and archiving documents,
  discussions, stories, documentation, etc.
• For sharing information
• For managing tasks
• http//moodle.unifr.ch/course/view.php?id1621
• With students not only to provide resources but
  also to provide communication, collaboration and
  archiving means

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GoogleDocs

• For keeping tracks
• For collaborative edition of documents
• For publishing documents
• http//docs.google.com
• With students allows them collaborating and
  publishing

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Google Calendar

• For managing team calendar
• For sharing ones calendar
• For publishing calendar
• For providing students with courses calendar
• http//www.google.com/calendar
• http//learn-nett.org
• With students communicating on courses events

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Twitter and its family

• For keeping in touch
• For sharing thoughts
• For reporting events
• For taking notes
• http//twitter.com
• http//twemes.com/
• http//www.diigo.com/list/doremi/twitters-bunch
• With students for collecting students thoughts
  and comments during/after courses

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Diigo and social bookmarking

• For sharing resources
• For archiving resources
• For searching resources
• http//www.diigo.com
• With students for sharing bookmarks with
  different groups of students

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Friendfeed and RSS tools

• For gathering information and resources together
• For publishing information
• http//friendfeed.com/
• With students for gathering useful information
  from different blogs

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Becoming a Community of Practice

• Participation
• Reification
• Negotiation of meaning
• Building team identity

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How we evolved and continue to evolve

• We also meet face-to-face!
• We also use pens and sheets of paper!
• We also go to the library!
• Simple and smart tools
• More self-confident with technologies
• Thinking to adapted/adaptative scenarios
• Mutual understanding and aid

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• Thanks a lot!
• amaury.daele_at_unifr.ch
• http//www.unifr.ch/didactic/
• http//www.slideshare.net/doremido/
• http//www.diigo.com/list/doremi/e_office