Training Workshops
These demonstrate a range of generic collaborative tools and multimedia applications, including polling and feedback mechanisms, note-taking and search enabled filing, research, brainstorming and mind-mapping, document, file co-production, commentary, blogging, sales and reviews that are used in everyday life and business situations throughout society across mobile devices, laptops and PCs. The focus is on free applications that are widely accessible and a range of virtual learning platforms are explored. These applications utilise traditional literacy practices in an online format which increase their interactivity and functionality, and can be integrated into practice inside and outside the classroom.
Quizzes, Polling and Feedback There are numerous quiz, polling, survey and feedback web applications, such as
SurveyMonkey Polldaddy, , and Polleverywhere . These allow participants to respond via web browser, social media such as Twitter or
Facebook, or text message to open or closed questions. The results can be expressed in graphs and charts, word clouds, PowerPoint presentations live onscreen in real time and may carry sophisticated analysis and reporting options. They can be used for rapid shared feedback during a learning session or for in-depth questionnaire analysis as part of a project.
Evernote Suite There are many note-taking packages available. The multi-platform cloud-based
Evernote Suite for example, integrates with a device's camera and audio, drawing ( Skitch) and web page cataloguing (Webclipper) options,
calendar and location data, file attachments and email, is fully searchable and enables sharing of individual notes or whole notebooks. The Pro version enables collaborative production and editing. Some students use this as a comprehensive multimedia study notes package; businesses use it as a platform for administration; and education providers use it as an online learning resource for courses. It can be used to store research and project documentation or catalogue live shared files for managing business.
Google Drive The pared down and free
Google Drive system enables web creation, cloud storage and collaborative real time
production and editing of simply formatted word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, form and drawing files. The files can be accessed and viewed, commented on or amended anywhere on any web-enabled device by anyone you share them with. This may include during a web-communication session where live discussion takes place around live screen-share and co-production, or via staggered time comments based discussion back and forth. There are a number of commercial packages that offer a range of options, such as Office 365
andSkyDrive . It can be used in co-production of files, or to edit and feedback on work produced.
Blogging and Reviews There are innumerable blogging and reviews options which encourage learners to engage in literacy practices around their own interests and life choices. There is frequently interaction and feedback, and at times ratings, which encourages clear communication. Examples are eBay feedback profiles where buyers and sellers express succinctly their experience of product and participant; and reliability ratings which accumulate on profiles and influence sales decisions; or blogs where commentary stimulates discussion of item and ranking occurs where more popular posts achieve higher rankings.
The advantages of these web applications over traditional methods are their easy access and storage across devices and locations, searchability, integrated functionality and collaborative interactivity, and multimodal multimedia capacities.
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