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Ten Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration In Project Based Learning

Ten Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration In Project Based Learning
Welcome to the second in a series of PBL Mania Posts. For the next few weeks I am celebrating Project Based Learning by hosting a webinar at Edtech Leaders Online and giving a PBL session at the NICE Conference in Chicago. In this post I will introduce you to some outstanding collaboration tools found on the web that can be used in the PBL classroom. First Some Notes For PD This Week 1. 2. 10 Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration in PBL This PBL Mania post will explore some of those collaborative Web 2.0 tools that can enhance the PBL experience. Titan Pad – Great way for quick collaboration and sharing a document. Wall Wisher – Like collaborating with virtual post-it notes on a virtual wall. Corkboardme – A program a lot like wall wisher that can be used to support a group’s collaborative activities. Google Docs – Not much needs to be said. Microsoft Live – Yes, Microsoft also has its online collaboration tools. Quick Screen Share – It is sometimes helpful to share a screen.

Launching Blackboard Collaborate Start Session Optionally, you can pre-configure your computer and test your audio using one of our Configuration Rooms prior to your session. Please visit our "First time Users" section in the Support Portal to view configuration rooms for Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing. Note: When joining a Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing session for the first time you will see a Security Dialog. Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing is asking for you to run this application without a verification of its digital signature. Due to the dynamic abilities of our software we are unable to sign certain application files.

How to create pop-up Windows with Powerpoint PowerPoint can be used to create all sort of presentations, this also includes interactive presentations in which we want the user to click images or rollover a certain image and then we want some image or an information box to pop out. Today we are going to show you how to create a presentation with popup windows so you can get interactive presentations. We can do these sorts of animations by using triggers. First we need to go to the Animation Tab and create a Custom Animation. And now personalize the animation choosing which trigger will animate it. This way, the trigger is properly configured to open the popup after you click the button, this is a good alternative to choose for interactive presentations in PowerPoint. (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...

My Library The Printliminator The Printliminator (repo) is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling. Here is the bookmarklet: Video Demo Credits By Chris Coyier and Devon Govett. Main Page (Perhaps Fall 2015 -- email howard@rheingold.com for notification) A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, concept maps, Personal Brain, and synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter About this Course Think-know Tools dives into both the theoretical-historical background of intellect augmentation and the practical skills of personal knowledge management. Now that we have access to powerful mind-amplifying devices and self-evolving collective intelligence networks, we can benefit ourselves and improve the commons by learning how knowledge technologies work and how to work them: As with other Rheingold U. courses, Think-Know Tools involves 6 weeks of Graduates of Introduction to Mind-Amplifiers can treat Think-Know Tools as an extension of what we covered before. Learning objectives About this course: Expect participative and collaborative learning Schedule Missions Lexicon Texts Session Wiki Pages Web-Brain Version of Syllabus

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