Archive for August, 2008

Social presence or social distraction?

Ben's blog provides a link to a free to air but now podcast of the free to air ABC TV show feature on the use of youtube to generate a sense of social connection screened in the TV program called Australian Story this week. This is a sort of extreme example of the establishment of [...]

Apologies for exclusion of students from Elluminate

I think I can answer a few issues that arose on Wednesday night now I have spent a bit of time yesterday trying to get my head around the issue of the University of Melbourne purchasing just a 10 seat virtual classroom for the Elluminate software environment. As those who were in the chat know [...]

2nd online chat raised some interesting issues – one is spurious posting

I do not want to put the heat on Bill and I think he might want to explain things himself in the various blogs but he identified a very interesting issue to do with the management of discussions and comments and posting in online teaching and learning environments. One of the issues is how much [...]

Elluminate briefly explained

At the outset can I say good to see so many of you in the chat last night it was great and I should possibly apologise again because we may have lost some students by shifting to a new chat or virtual environment half way through (so sorry Scot? others? you can comment here if [...]

Aug 6th and 1st official online chat for the subject but we might have lost a couple of students

The chat session on August 6th went pretty well all things considered. Generally chat takes a little while to get used to - all those different chat conversations overlapping and interweaving tend to make it appear chaotic as a first impression. Maybe i am getting more used to it myself but i think there were enough [...]