Introduction to elearning pt 2

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Introduction to elearning pt 2

• Mark Childs
• Graham Lewis

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Community centred learning
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Tools for communication

• Email
• Shared website
• Forums/discussion boards
• Peer-to-peer platforms
• Blogs and moblogs
• Instant messaging
• Chat
• Audioconferencing
• Videoconferencing and application sharing
• Shared avatar systems
• Social Networking sites
• Mobiles and PDAs
• wikis

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Collaborative learning

• Shared websites
• Blogs
• Forums
• wikis

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E.g. Performance Spaces

• Course website
• reviewing websites and commenting on reviews
• answering questions in blogs and commenting on
  others blogs
• Classroom presentations using Internet-based
  resources

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Examples of blog use

• Students answer questions using resources from
  gallery
• http//blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hesterbond/entry/the_eu
  menides/
• Students look up webpages and comment on them
• http//blogs.warwick.ac.uk/lmatthews/entry/sst1_st
  uffargh_work/
• Blog examples ppt

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Conferencing

• Access to expertise
• Link to distant students
• Videoconferencing
• Chat e.g. MSN
• Audioconferencing e.g. Skype
• Shared avatar system
• http//www.secondlife.com/

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In combination

• Can also combine different technologies, for
  example
• Streaming Theatre in a Virtual Classroom
• Videoconferencing, website, forum, blog, video
• http//www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/ug/in
  tro/streaming_theatres/

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E.g. Streaming Theatre

• Modules run at Warwick and Amsterdam comparing
  theatre in both countries
• Course website including video of performances
• Arrange teaching sessions A?W / W ?A
• Students upload ideas to joint website
• Students discuss these ideas in videoconferences
• Students create pictorial essays using video clips

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Contact

• Mark Childs
• m.childs_at_warwick.ac.uk
• Graham Lewis
• graham.lewis_at_warwick.ac.uk
• Jay Dempster
• jay.dempster_at_warwick.ac.uk