Forum - Chapter 13 Learning together Virtually

Read Text Chapter 13 Learning together Virtually. The chapter covers good, basic information for distance and virtual learning environments. After reading the chapter go to Table 13.2 and for each online facility listed provide the following in a post to this Forum:

a. Your personal experience with each, if any. Describe it in a sentence or two. How useful did you find them? If no experience, then provide a question about how it works.

b. Which, if any of these facilities, might you use in your own Moodle? How?

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A.

Blogs and Mini Blogs - I use these almost every day they are a good source of news and good for learning.

Breakout rooms -I have not used a breakout room in a virtual setting. I am curious as to what the breakout room would look like and how much would the software cost and how easy it is to set up and use.

Chats -I have used text based chats mainly for groups where we are planning events and writing a grant and when we needed to communicate to figure out our plan of action. I tend to use facebook messenger, evernote chat, and google docs.

Email -I use this every day at work one of the main sources of communication in which my supervisor and the instructors and students at the college can contact me to request assistance.

Message boards-I tend to read and sometimes infrequently post on message boards I also take a look at message boards when I have some questions to see what others have done. It helps with understanding the problems and gives users feedback and answers on how to get around or use certain equipment and or software.

Online conferencing -I have used online conferencing for meetings however recently we have been using WebEx for my online classes.

Social networks -I have used social networks for personal use as well as for professional I use it mainly to keep in touch with people and post things rather infrequently.

Wikis -I have used wikis for projects that require documentation I have also viewed other wikis. Wikis are helpful because it would allow us to collaborate on various topics.

B. I would be incorporating message boards and blogs or wikis into my moodle. The message board will help students collaborate and give them a chance to ask questions. Blogs and wikis are helpful to students because it encourages them to gather there work into a portfolio so that they can show what they have accomplished in their time in an educational institution.