Learn how to Integrate Web 2.0 into your course Management System
Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
It seems every day someone is touting the latest Web 2.0 tool as “the next big thing” in collaboration and social networking. Making sense of these tools … and finding those that truly can be used effectively in the higher education environment is a constant challenge. This seminar will show you which technologies are worth your time and which ones you’re better off ignoring.
Your Learning Management System (LMS) has more potential than you may realize.
Thanks to the emergence of Web 2.0 applications such as Wikis, Etherpad, and Google Wave, innovative educators are creating limitless new learning opportunities and discovering ways to embed them within existing Virtual Learning Environments.
The best news is: these interactive web-based tools are available to colleges and universities absolutely FREE and they’re relatively easy to learn.
Web 2.0 collaborative learning is all about interaction and sharing. Teaching at the 2.0 level can transform and reinvigorate your classes while unleashing student and faculty potential.
In Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS, presenter Barry Dahl, Vice President of Technology and Lake Superior Connect e-Campus at Lake Superior College, discusses the best online tools to enhance and upgrade course delivery. An experienced online educator, Dahl demonstrates where to find the most powerful complimentary online applications and explain how to put them to work in your classes.
This is one of Dahl’s most popular workshops, due to the growing interest in adapting online platforms to higher education.
This audio online seminar covers:
- Which online systems to investigate and which to skip
- Level 2.0 ways to collaborate and share inside your LMS
- How to add web content in just two clicks
- Tools for creating and submitting multimedia homework assignments
- Integrating web tools with your Learning Management System
- Using student authoring tools for simultaneous writing
- Creating collaborative group research projects for online sharing
- “Poking holes” in your LMS to allow communication with the outside world
- Outcome examples for faculty tasks and student assignments
This demonstration is conducted using Desire2Learn, but the same principles apply to any other LMS, including Blackboard, Angel, Moodle, etc.
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Barry Dahl is the Vice President of Technology and Lake Superior Connect e-Campus at Lake Superior College (LSC) in Duluth, MN and is on the Board of Directors for the Instructional Technology Council.