3 online learning principles referred to by Bill and in session 4 but ignored by the rest of us when Bill raised them in the first chat

The guidelines for teaching and learning design raised in session four are important and Pelz expands on each of these will examples- the first impression may be that they are counter intuitive and that they rely too much on the students. What do you think?

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II. APPLIED ONLINE PEDAGOGY
A. Principle #1: Let the students [...]

Time consuming to review too many blogs in a large class

Grading and reading all the blogs of a whole class could be quite time consuming – but is it necessary to read everything.

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the reason most teachers forgo blogging in large classrooms is that reading
and grading and responding to hundreds of blog posts every week seems impossibly
time consuming and counterproductive. Students are [...]

The advantage of the large class single blog

Despite the previous post there are advantages in a single blog for large classes The clipped message here was an indication from the same person who argued that single large class blogs were likely to be messy followed up with the following clipped message. And there was a comment that [...]

The large class blog and the mess it creates

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Just as with smaller classes, there are a number of ways in which blogs may be deployed to help with the learning process in a large class. The most obvious example is the single teaching blog, something of a replacement for other forms of course management software. In this form, the [...]

Video of Iphone promtion for use in unis

This is really not Web 2.0 it is really Web negative 1 or pre web 1.0 Frances found this and I wonder if it like a reversion to hardware (and corporate sales) driven change and restructure of education and ways of teaching and learning. It is framed as possible and maybe desirable in a sort [...]

Future ideas

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7cba88c97f114350cb2e

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 [...]