Introduction
Session 1Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Forum
eGroup
Project
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Overview
Effective learning hinges on the active engagement of students in constructing their own
knowledge and understanding. Desktop videoconferencing, one of the many activity
structures, breaks down the classroom walls and enables students to be involved in
meaningful, real-life learning through the collection and sharing of information and data
during a videoconference.
Activity Structures empower teachers to create
effective educational Internet-based experiences for students that are seamlessly tied to
the curriculum. Dr. Judi Harris, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of
Texas at Austin has identified eighteen telecollaborative activity structures and
categorized them into three major types:
This week the class will look at the various activity
structures available for use in the classroom and will target ways these can be used in
specific subject areas. Also, class members will begin using eGroups and
the threaded discussions in the Connectivity Forum.
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Assignment:
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Join the TC
Videoconferencing eGroup after receiving an e-mail invitation. Be sure to follow the
directions in the e-mail invitation. Please contact the instructor if you have questions or problems
becoming a member. Please visit the eGroup section
of this site for information and additional help.
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Post a Forum (password - tcvideo) message in the Icebreaker
folder to the class and include:
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a short biographical
sketch
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the funniest experience
you have had using technology.
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Hint: Documents can be created in a word processor and
then copied and pasted into the message area on the Forum.
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Add your record to the existing
eGroup database.
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Select a subject area
(ex: science) and create a working document that lists areas that could be strengthened
through use of videoconferencing and other activity structures.
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Go to the Town Meeting section of
Teachers Connect. Read the section, "Why do videoconferencing?"
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In the article above
there are two picture clips, one of a session on Lightning and the other on the
Titanic. In your document, indicate the value you observe in visual displays during
videoconferences as related to your subject area.
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Read Wetware: Why Use
Activity Structures?
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/Foundation/index.html
As you read, continue to add to your working document.
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For your records, upload your document to your folder in the eGroup
Vault using .rtf (rich text format - this should be an option under 'save as')
indicate the subject area and your initials, (ex: sciencegg.rtf.) Hint: Be sure to
be in your folder before you upload.
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Visit the Forum, read the question in the Assignment
- Session 1 folder, and submit a response. At the end of this session, visit
the Forum again to read the input from others and submit at least one reply to a current
strand.
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Visit the Forum and submit a reflection for the week in
the Refection - Session 1 folder. Feel free to submit feedback throughout
this course using the Feedback folder.
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In the eGroup Vault there
is a reflection log template that is available for participants to use if they would like
to keep a record of this experience. The activity of keeping a log is optional.
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Secure desktop video
camera and installation software which will needed by Week 3.
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Begin a list of
possibilities for your project.
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