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Resources for Online
Synchronous Sessions
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Resources for
Interaction
Resources for Leaders of The TLT Group's
Online Synchronous Session(s)
Templates, Samples
& Guidelines
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TLT Group
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Welcome
Leader/Presenters of TLT Group online synchronous sessions!
Please copy and edit these Web pages to support your own goals for
interaction with participants.
After browsing among these samples, you are also welcome to ask the TLT
Group to do the editing or adapting for you. Best of all, suggest
a new variation! Thanks.
- Steve Gilbert, President, The TLT
Group
[We also welcome others to use these resources - and to suggest
improvements or additions to this collection.] |
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Guidelines
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Templates
& Standard Materials (e.g., Slides)
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Rules of Thumb - Guidelines - for Synchronous
Online Leader/Presenters
- "YOU ARE NOT ALONE!"
We look forward to working with at least two leader/presenters for each
online session; and to figuring out additional constructive roles for
other participants
- EXCEPTIONS ARE IMPORTANT
The exceptions to each of the following are probably as important as the
rules themselves!
- MAX 15 MINUTE MODULES
Every online event should be organized in modules, each no more than 15
minutes. Each module should contain some "presentation" and some
"interaction."
- MAX 5 SLIDES/WEBSITES PER MODULE
For one-session online events, each module should show no more than 5
substantive slides and Websites. [Additional "housekeeping" slides are
often necessary. ]
- MAX 10 SLIDES/WEBSITES PER MODULE
For three-session online workshops, each module should show no more than 10
substantive slides and Websites. [Additional "housekeeping" slides are
often necessary. ] Some modules should include considerably fewer than
10 slides and Websites.
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR BEHAVIOR OF REGISTRANTS
Leader/presenters, TLTG moderators, and those having other leadership or
support roles are responsible for setting and maintaining guidelines for the
behavior of registrants; that includes soliciting and responding to
feedback from participants as well as setting examples for different ways of
getting a lot out of the online sessions.
EXAMPLE: DON'T GIVE UP THE MIKE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT WILL
HAPPEN NEXT! The leader/presenter/moderator who has control
of the microphone should not release it until he/she has clearly identified
what will happen next and who will take the microphone.
- FAVORITES OPTION
If you choose to save files to your bookmarks, they will show up in
iVocalize under favorites. However, this is not true for Apple computers.
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To make a
PDF version of slides and notes: Use the “print to pdf” (versus print to
printer) feature in PowerPoint – printing out the speaker’s notes (slides
plus notes). There are some free PDF conversion programs, one you can use is
called PDF reDirect, available at
www.cnet.com.
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Interactive Response
& Goal Templates
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Asynchronous Interaction Options
OLI
participants are welcome to respond to each other via the TLT-SWG blog or a
Google Docs document for most of our online events.
TLT-SWG Blog:
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Intro "Slides," Recordings,
Instructions
for Participants & Moderators
Pre-recorded demo/explanations - each launch
immediately upon clicking the link listed here:
Mostly for
Moderators:
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Web Pages
For
each OLI Workshop or Session we have a "home page" and a "description page":
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Planning & Interaction Templates (Google
Docs)
Google Docs Documents
When you click on these links you will be taken to the "public" view of
the document. If you wish to edit the document, and you have been added as
a "collaborator" to the document, you may scroll down to the bottom and click
on:
"Edit this page (if you have permission)."
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Playing Pre-Recorded
Clips (Audio, Video, ..) During Live Synchronous Session |
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Goals for Use of Pre-Recorded Clips (2/2007)
Leader/presenters/moderators can "play" clips so that everyone
participating experiences ***almost*** the same thing at the same time.
The leader/presenter/moderator can choose
to:
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enable each logged-in participant to
play a selected pre-recorded clip individually themselves - preferably when
invited to do so by the leader/presenter;
OR
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launch and control the playing of such
clips centrally.
Under
some circumstances, it can be an ADVANTAGE to enable and require
participants each to execute a single mouse click to launch the clip, and then
ask them to send a text comment when they have finished.
Other
times, for other purposes, it would be better for the moderator to be able to
launch the clip and be reasonably confident that **ALMOST ALL** participants
will then hear/see the clip at **ALMOST THE SAME TIME**.
Synchronous events run via the Internet
will probably never provide
EVERYONE participating with ANYTHING in exactly the same way and at exactly the
same time.
[Actually, this is even true in most face-to-face classrooms! "You cannot
step in the river in the same place twice." "Anything that is different is
not the same."]
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Current Guidelines for Using Pre-Recorded Clips (2/2007)
- Format of
pre-recorded file
Format for pre-recorded audio to be "played" during a live iVoc session
doesn't matter EXCEPT that the file should be in a format that all
participants are VERY LIKELY to be able to "play" on their own computers.
E.g., MP3, Flash, ...
- Location of
pre-recorded file
Store on a webpage! Participants cannot access a file that is only stored
as a file available on someone's own computer.
- Hot link to pre-recorded file
Create a hot link to
the file on a web page. Make sure the hot link is set to open in a
new window when someone
clicks on it!!!!
Here's a sample Web page with several pre-recorded audio clips.
- Launching
file during live session
During live iVocalize or similar session the leader/presenter/moderator (the
one who has synch browsing on) initiates the "playing" of the audio
pre-recording by:
a. Displaying Web page
Displaying the web page that has the hot link to the pre-recorded file
in the
shared iVoc browser
b. Asking participants to "play" clip
Asking everyone who
is logged in to click on the hot link on their own computer screen within
the iVoc interface. The moderator might count "1, 2, 3, go -everyone click
on the link!"
c. NOT interrupting
NOT doing anything to interfere with individual participants' "playing" the
file. [Moderator does NOT change the status of the page
displayed to the participants. Moderator does NOT click on anything
while the participants are listening to or playing the file. Moderator
should mute or turn off the microphone.]
d. Asking participants to signal completion
Asking every participant to
type something in the chat text area when they have finished
hearing/watching the recording. Those text comments signal to the
leader/presenter/moderator that it is time to resume other kinds of
speaking, etc. Participants can be asked to type something related to
the content of what they were just hearing or playing. This further
encourages them to pay attention to the clip.
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Caucus/Catch-Up Breaks
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Clocks & Timers
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Please send your questions or suggestions for
improving our work on interactive uses of iVocalize to Steve Gilbert at:
GILBERT@TLTGROUP.ORG
We
also welcome your ideas for webcast or workshop topics,
OLI leaders or co-sponsors.
Click here to make a
Suggestion!
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