The class is an open professional development class taught by Darren Draper & Kelly Dumont (in Utah) and Robin Ellis (In Pennsylvania). We are using a wikispace page as our central location. The instructors used a tool called UStream for the video and they embedded a chat stream using Meebo so we could communicate.Later we broke into groups of 6 people and collaborated via Skype and Google docs to create a presentation using the Google presentation tool. I have no idea where my fellow collaborators were physically, nor did it matter. We just created the presentation together. I later found out one of them was in Australia. I kind of thought she typed with an Australian accent. : )
You know how there is always one person in a group who makes things a bit difficult for everybody? Well, we had an uninvited guest who entered our chat room. This became rather irritating, giving us all concern about using an open chat room when teaching with Ustream. So we will need to find a way to block those who want to just create problems.
But even with the troll (real term, not my opinion) it was fascinating collaborating with people from around the world.
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First let me welcome you to Ustream. we are thrilled that the educational community has discovered the advantages of Ustream in education. Concerning the comment of the uniinvited guests there are several tools available on ustream to prevent just such an occurrence and keep your broadcast clean and clear for the school age children. Visit the Ustream Users Coomunity Forum live on ustream to learn these tips and techniques, or contact ustreamtech@yahoo.com or gmail..
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