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The happy group on the last day of the term AFTER presentations were finished.

IDEAS: Instructional Design for Elearning ApproacheS

Collaborative Learning

Anyone interested in podcasting should check out this site, NCQ Talk (Nerd, Canadian, Quaker)

About the Show
Monday, February 21st, 2005
Welcome!

Welcome to NCQ Talk where a Nerd, a Canadian and a Quaker talk about the intersection of technology and learning. We’re very excited that you’ve taken the time to find us.

If you’re here on launch day (February 22, 2005) or anytime shortly thereafter, it probably means you were given a special invitation and belong to a world of people who teach with technology. You might be part of one of Susan’s classes. Or you might be someone we know who embraces new methods for your own professional development. That’s what this is … professional development in portable pieces that you can take on the road. We’re not “fast food” for educators; we want to make you think while we feed your mind with a few nutritious ideas. Think of us as whole grain.

NCQ Talk came about through a typical kitchen-table discussion among three friends. We used to talk like this all the time at work, but life split us up. Now when we get together, we generally share the latest tools and trends and try to figure out what that will mean for our lives as educators…or nerds. Most importantly to you as a listener, we’re the kind of people who take the tools and try them out. What you’re hearing is genuine praxis.

You’ll hear us focus on one main idea in each show. Most of the shows are 12-15 minutes long and can be downloaded and listened to on your computer, an mp3 player or an iPod. Burn us to a CD and take us in the car! But don’t let it stop there. We really want you to come back to this site and interact with us after you listen. The dialogue we create will continue to sustain and enrich us all.
NCQ Talk - The Intersection of Technology and Learning

Janet Salmons, in her eLearn2Lead blog lists other collaborative tools that she has grouped into categories of asynchronous and synchronous. (In order to see these you will need to scroll down a bit on Janet's blog.) She has done a great service by listing all those that are free!! Check out her blog for the listing of tools as well as their web addresses.

Janet has been conducting in a great deal of collaborative learning research, which we will take a look at in this FCSCL course.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Tools

Open source, freeware or shareware
Collaborative Software and Services for the Writing Class
Testbed for telecollaboration
CoVis (Collaborative Visualization Project)
Virtual U

MOOs and MUDs
Tapped In
Moose Crossing

Online Classrooms & E-Learning: Software
inparticular, be sure to check out:
Elluminate
Web Collaboration Software
Video Conferencing and Conference Calling
InstaColl - Web conferencing

A sampling of the many "Not for free" programs available
Symposium
MeetingWorks
Daedalus (collaborative writing)

Hey - I'm back to this blog, and am going to use it as a location to post resources and reflections about computer-supported collaborated learning (CSCL)

so from here on out posts should be frequent

Sweet Chestnut

Sweet Chestnut
Originally uploaded by Collicky.

Complexity.

I was meandering around my office (more like whirling, actually), and picked up one of the several piles in my office that refuse to go away. In it were some notes that I jotted on the back of an envelope, that I had taken at the Distance Education and Learning Conference held this past Aug in WI. Apparently Chris Dede inspired this thought (although I don't know in what way).

What about using reputation systems as a means of peer evaluation? Possibly useful for a faculty portal? or maybe some kind of self-defined expertise.

Other thoughts on the envelope:

1. unlearning poses one of the challenges of transformational learning. or maybe unlearning is part of transformational learning.
2. unlearning almost unconscious assumptions, beliefs, and values about the nature of teaching, learning, and schooling