Anyone who uses their whiteboard for ELT / EFL classes volition know what a actually useful teaching aid it tin john be, thus how nigh using 1 amongst your distance learners?
In Part 1 of this serial on Skype plugins, I looked at how in addition to where to detect in addition to install plugins for Skype in addition to I also looked at how to exercise Pamela to tape well materials in addition to interviews amongst Skype.
In this posting I'd similar to direct maintain a expect at an online collaboration tool called Yugma which allows you lot to percentage files, percentage your desktop, brand alive presentations in addition to direct maintain a shared online whiteboard all running along side your Skype application.
This quick tutorial takes you lot through some of the basic features.
You tin john download a version for your figurer inwards Quick Time here.
Or
Open the tutorial inwards a new window here.
How to exercise this amongst ELT / EFL students
Well I intend this is definitely a distance learning back upward tool rather than some matter to exercise inwards the classroom / multi media lab amongst students. It could last ideal for instructor who wants to learn online 1 to 1 peculiarly if you lot are doing this independently in addition to don't direct maintain the back upward of a companionship to supply you lot amongst specialist software. I intend it's also a pretty useful tool for instructor preparation in addition to evolution if you lot direct maintain groups of teachers spread around the province or the solid seat down even.
What I wasn't thus certain about
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Nik Peachey
In Part 1 of this serial on Skype plugins, I looked at how in addition to where to detect in addition to install plugins for Skype in addition to I also looked at how to exercise Pamela to tape well materials in addition to interviews amongst Skype.
In this posting I'd similar to direct maintain a expect at an online collaboration tool called Yugma which allows you lot to percentage files, percentage your desktop, brand alive presentations in addition to direct maintain a shared online whiteboard all running along side your Skype application.
This quick tutorial takes you lot through some of the basic features.
You tin john download a version for your figurer inwards Quick Time here.
Or
Open the tutorial inwards a new window here.
How to exercise this amongst ELT / EFL students
Well I intend this is definitely a distance learning back upward tool rather than some matter to exercise inwards the classroom / multi media lab amongst students. It could last ideal for instructor who wants to learn online 1 to 1 peculiarly if you lot are doing this independently in addition to don't direct maintain the back upward of a companionship to supply you lot amongst specialist software. I intend it's also a pretty useful tool for instructor preparation in addition to evolution if you lot direct maintain groups of teachers spread around the province or the solid seat down even.
- You tin john demonstrate students how to exercise specific software for their course of didactics in addition to verbalize them through the diverse processes.
- You tin john demonstrate students around websites in addition to exercise them every bit the footing for online discussion
- You tin john percentage documents amongst your students in addition to acquire them to piece of job on them collaboratively
- Students tin john percentage projects they direct maintain been working on amongst other grouping members
- You tin john play games online such every bit Pictionary (a game where 1 thespian draws a painting in addition to the others direct maintain to justice the news it represents)
- You tin john percentage notes every bit you lot deliver presentations
- You tin john tape presentations in addition to reuse them
- You tin john gear upward a whole programme of dissimilar online line of piece of job organisation simulations such as
- Presenting data nigh a company
- Presenting a sales study of the results of survey findings
- Students drive to sell a fictional production to investors (your other students would last the investors)
- Carrying out online interviews, amongst students presenting in addition to talking nigh their CVs
- The mightiness to tape these presentations would enter much easier for your students to review them in addition to for you lot to offering feedback on their work.
- As tools similar this acquire a to a greater extent than widely used in addition to accepted portion of international business, developing the mightiness to exercise such tools is going to acquire a valuable 'real life' skill.
- It's costless (at to the lowest degree some parts are) in addition to quite slow in addition to quick to install in addition to use.
- I actually similar that you lot tin john tape your meetings to spotter after etc.
- Great that this integrates amongst Skype
- It seems to offering a pretty comprehensive packet of functions
What I wasn't thus certain about
- Some of the functionality is express after the commencement fifteen days, unless you lot direct to pay for an account.
- You direct maintain to last certain that your firewall / anti-virus doesn't block it, thus if you lot direct maintain whatsoever problems getting it started, in addition to thus that's the commencement matter to check.
- You'll also postulate to acquire your students to download in addition to install it.
Best
Nik Peachey
