Best use of VOIP

Skype and such

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Voice over Internet Protocol: VoIP
The best use of VoIP is when you want to connect and communicate with your personal learning network on a personal level.
Features of VOIP

Audio/video e-mail
Audio/video chat
Recording discussions

Ideas for VoIP:

connecting with a primary source
real-time communication with a partner class
developing [...]

Best uses for tool collaborative multimedia

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Collaborative Multimedia:
The best use of collaborative multimedia is to allow for creative representation of ideas. When a blog is too text driven, or a social network is too complex for your needs, or your students would benefit from video or audio presentation, you might want to try a multimedia format. [...]

Best use for social networking

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Social Networking:
The best use of social networking is for connecting students (and teachers and parents). A social network allows for a variety of tools to be directly embedded within your network (like blogs, podcasts, groups and forums) so it is a great venue for bringing people together and allowing them [...]

Best use for wikis

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Wikis:
The best use of a wiki is for collaborative knowledge building. A wiki allows for shared ownership for all members, meaning that together the authors of a wiki determine what information is posted online. Because a wiki is a great place to share and document information, it can be thought [...]

Best use for blogs

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The best use of a blog is for an individual seeking feedback – this could be an individual student or an individual teacher. We love blogs because they promote interaction between author and reader, however it is the author that determines the content/discussion focus – not the reader. Therefore, this option [...]

There are many WEB 2 tools to do a teaching or learning job sometimes the answer is to use more than one to get teh job done

It is a metaphor obviously but perhaps it helps thinking therough the idea of catering for large group blogging

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The thing to remember with any toolbox is that you need to know what you want to accomplish before you choose your tool. I find lots of teachers often try to make one [...]

Catering for large groups blogging

This is like going back to the discussion board not sucha great idea – no ownership of blog as a motivator

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Having a classroom blog set up for students to publish their creativity is an incredible way to generate excitement and quality content. But what about when you have hundreds of students [...]

Personal learning environments as a part of how we organise portfolios and learning with web2

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the priorities for a PLE are different for a tertiary student, a university
administrator, an instructor, a working professional, or an adult who persues an
eclectic path of lifelong learning. Metaphorically, an individual may engage in
a learning process that is either more acquisitional or participatory

a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for [...]

eporfolios for individual or institutions

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I think we should differentiate between:

ePortfolios — that are documents, full stop
ePorfolio authoring systems — the tools used by the author
ePortfolio management systems — that are tools used by
institutions

let’s take the discussion about “assessment ePortfolios” that some claim alter
the “true nature” of ePortfolios — and I’m always a bit wary when
people [...]

The use of web 2 in eportfolios

bennet on what you need to do to get Web 2 aspcts into eportfolios

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In implementing portfolios, artifacts are selected by students to tell the story
of their learning. The portfolio is maintained throughout a class, term or
program. The portfolio and artifacts are reviewed with the learner and used to
provide feedback to improve [...]