which sites are worth the money...and be ready to pay it.
i used to pay for NOTHING, nada, zippo, on the Interwebs back in the day with angelfire, hotmail, rocketmail, geocities, care2, etc.
now i pay for smugmug, flickr, second life (omg- lots of L$!) , google apps, etc..
but no, i don't think Nings are going away...social networks are here to stay. and we've gotta be ready to pay for them...i guess Facebook & Twitter next!
I'm also going to go ahead and post the Elluminate webinar: Ning Changes and the Impact on Educational Communities around on some other Nings & groups i belong to... i also would encourage all to join LearnCentral...some great FREE PD to be had there as well as building a vibrant PLN.
If you would like to see the discussion of this same issue on the ISTE10 Ning here's the LINK. I also will wait patiently till May to see the final verdict.
Cheers!
~Gwyneth…
d from my website?
1. Advertise my services - consultancy and education (courses) in Sports Management and Marketing and sell products (books I wrote).
2. Tools
Blog - I find it is possible with NING.
Forum - I use Google Groups as a private virtual classroom , where we post discussions and files liki handbooks for my studantes. I find groups on NING where I can build these private classrooms.
E-learning - in the near future I will intend to offer online courses. It seems that classroom20 has a solution like elluminate. There is no portuguese from Brazil available, but I will consider if is a good solution for me.
CRM - I do not need a complete CRM, but to have a list of emails that I cand send emails inviting those interest in my courses.
Subscription Form - A form to those interested im my courses could fill it out, with name, email and ome other information that is good but not essencial (interests, team, etc).
Thank you in advance
Joao Henrique Areias
www.jhareias.com
Online store - I need a section where people can buy my books. I use a brazilian payment system called PAGSEGURO that works like PAYPAL.…
ed collaboration, as this is a significant theme essential to 21st century learning. We hope to think, ponder, and analyze the impact that our actions have on the world as well as the world's impact on our actions. These experiences with how we interact with each other, the environment, society, economies, etc. could illuminate the commonalities amongst us all. Ultimately, this Impact Lab will provide students with a space to brainstorm, design, and propose insights into the impacts that affect their lives. These insights will be shared with the global community through the use of 21st century technologies (i.e. Elluminate, Skype, VoiceThread, etc.). If you agree with this, please take a moment to read through our proposal and add your thoughts/comments to our thread. (it can easily be found by typing "weber" into the search field)Thank you for your time and support! …
Added by Connie Weber at 11:30am on January 27, 2010
my material into their format. I was limited in what I could do. And in the back of my mind, there is the feeling. "This does not belong to me. Remember Ning."I own Moodle, but I use Elluminate. An idea that I have had for a while now, needs some outside evaluation. Let talk about it.Cloud Conferencing. Do not use any platform but take advantage of free and open source applications. I start by putting my course syllabus on Moodle and use it for registration.I prepare a web page that includes all links I will use in the discussionThe participants at the scheduled time are called by Skype and we exchange pleasantries.I direct them to the Home Page of the discussion which has annotated links to various resources.I turn on my web based whiteboard and explain how it works.I give them the password that lets them see my monitor.What else do I need?Why do I need a set platform that I may not own and may have to pay for?…
gSpace is a virtual workspace optimized for creating, sharing, managing, and collaborating on educational content. Students, teachers, parents and administrators experience purposeful, project-based learning in a collaborative and controlled environment using social media tools, and have access to a growing library of high-quality content, digital storage areas for personal school files, and ePals SchoolMail®, all with industry-leading safety and security needed for a K-12 school system.
ePals LearningSpace allows schools and districts to combine:
Safe web 2.0 communication tools including email, blogs, wikis, forums and media galleries
Member profiles and digital lockers for developing shared portfolios
School-related documents including Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, video and audio files
District and school-approved contact groups including students, teachers, parents and even guest lecturers and experts
Access to the ePals Global Community for collaboration beyond a school or district
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an of most of Adobe's products. Adobe Connect is about the only one I have some reservations about. I am in Adobe Connect meetings pretty regularly for Adobe eLearning training. I have seen a higher than what I feel is normal level of audio problems from participants in these meetings. I have even had to leave sessions before because the audio had so many sound drops that I couldn't get enough to piece together what the presenter was saying. That has been my main reason for steering clear of that one in our project. It isn't impossible that the audio issues are related to the main speakers that lead many of the ones I attend signing in from India though. Maybe the internet infrastructure from the hosting presenters is somehow to blame. Many sessions have been OK for sound, but the percentage of times there are issues for participant's is too high in my opinion. I also dislike the dark theme in combination with not being able to see other participants. It always makes me feel like I am in a closet with people and the lights are turned out. I know they are there, but I cannot really get a sense of how many are in attendance or who they are.Maybe I have gotten spoiled on Collaborate's participant's list. It is easy to feel like you are there with other participants when you can see them in the list. It feels more welcoming and friendly that way.
It has been long enough since I tried Webex and GoToMetting to give a fair review for those. Technology changes so fast that what I experienced in trying them a few years ago may not apply any more. Those two have been around for a while, so I would think they would have some stability and sophistication enough to test them for use.
BigBlueButton would be an interesting one to test if you already have a server for an LMS anyway. With it being open source and free, you cannot beat the price if you already have server space and server-side expertise. So far, we are happy with Collaborate, but if push and shove happened and we were priced out of using it, I would give BBB a try in our project (we already have server space for Modle, so it would only be a matter of getting past the setup hurdle).
A word on Collaborate - I think a lot of people found the shift when Blackboard took over Elluminate to be a bumpy ride. The closing of Elluminate's community hub, dropping of the office level tier, and the buggy new version that came out missing lots of favorite tools all wrapped in very little communication so the changes were a shock have really disillusioned many users of that platform. However, I still think it is the best one out there. So long as they don't skyrocket the prices (worrisome with that drop of the office tier) we are going to stick with Collaborate.
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it is aimed at elluminating ELT practitioners to grow in the use of social networks as learning development tools.
This event is being jointly organized by AVEALMEC and ARCALL, two Latin-American associations, one based in Venezuela and the other in Argentina, interested in promoting the use of ICT in the language classroom.
For this event, we invited conference speakers from different parts of the world:
George Siemens -Canada
Etienne Wenger -US
Vance Stevens -UAE
Nik Peachey -UK
Charalambos Vrasidas and Maria Solomou -Cyprus
Nicky Hockly -Spain
Erica Cruvinel and Ronaldo Lima –Brazil
Rita Zeinstejer and Paula Ledesma -Argentina
Nellie Müller Deustch –Israel
Carla Arena –Brazil
Graham Stanley –Spain
Jennifer Vershoor, Evelyn Izquierdo and Erica Cruvinel –Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil
During four days, our guest speakers will be sharing their experiences and expertise with participants and will help us grasp a better picture of how social networks can be used in the language teaching and learning field. We will be discussing about the concepts and theories around social networks, communities of practice and the Web 2.0, as well as about the use, advantages and drawbacks of social networking tools.
Join us and participate in this amazing learning experience!
http://avealmec.org.ve/
Spread the word! Let´s get socially connected!…
all did Moodle-based activities and I worked one-on-one in the online classroom whith kids that needed the extra assistance. I found that it worked out OK, but this year, I dropped the Moodle Mondays in favor of 5-day online classroom instruction.
I still actively use the Moodle for parent communication and to help new teachers get a leg up on setting up their classes. It houses our online classroom slide files (indicated by the wbd in the link title), the Student Skills Report, the student portfolios, and links to outside files.
You are welcome to visit the course pages. They are fully open to guest access, no password required. Just go to http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/. The elementary courses are Phonics and Phonics Intervention and the Kto3rd Math Meeting courses. My homrooms on the coursepages are the ones for 1st grade in both courses. Our Moodle courses are set up in a shared course design where all the teachers share the course page but we each have our own homerooms. This lets us actively collaborate, share, and help new teachers get up and started. We have a new teacher just getting her classes set up now in the math course. She will be teaching kindergarten and 3rd grade math in the online classroom with the Moodle page resources.
I hope this is of some help.…