How to Select and use collaboration tools

Select your collaboration tools to make it possibel for long distant learners to chat feeely and to work together on tasks in the virtual classroom such as second life. As i know, you will need to know the different tools and how to use them as well. First, you need to decide waht kind of one by one interaction which is best furthers the objectives of your projects. Second, you need to implement this interaction in the form and technology to fit for you r situation.

(1) consider a variety of tools
we are going to find rich communication and collaboration into our e-learning. Users can be easier to use it. it is the reason why face-to-face are necessary to have a variety of tools to support in classroom. For example Dicussion forum , E-mail, chat room, and video-conferencing etc....

(2) to make live meeting if posibble
there are some points to show you guys.
1.1 Teaching unstructured, implicit knowledge.
1.2 Learners hav emany questions.
1.3 Isolated learners prefer leanring with others.
1.4 No time to develop standalone materials.

i think if your teachers are lacked the skills to teach you , it is the best way to do it. computer can provide that interactivity between teachers and students.

(3) Layer leanring activities

I would like to mix synchronous and asynchronous methods as well as group activiteis. you know it will help our learners to work each other. i will show you how we performe individually .

1.1 one-to-one, synchronous--office hours
1.2 Group synchronous--mettings, and presentations
1.3 Group, asynchronous-- discussion,team projects, study groups
1.4 individual, asynchronous-- readings research labs papers.

when we design activities , we need to think who is our target and which layer learning activities.

(4) pick tools to suit learners

I think colaboration tools are new technology. we need to think how learners are going to use. is it easy to use? is it hard to use?

According to Horton (2006), He addressed four pick tools to suit leanrers.

1.1 language fluency
1.2 accents.
1.3 typeing skills
1.4 technical expertise.

there are still some considers for our learners. i would like to write more next time.