Day 1: Tools for Facilitation & Adobe Connect Tutorial

Day 1 - Topics

• Tools for Facilitation
  • Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
    • Synchronous
      • Online at the same time
      • Communicate in real-time
      • Uses instant messaging or microphones/headsets
      • Real-time Solutions for Online Learning: Using Synchronous Communication Tools for Right-now Learning
      • Taking the 'A' out of Asynchronous
    • Asynchronous
      • Self-paced
      • Communicate over time
      • Blogs, discussion boards, wikis, email, etc.
      • Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning Technologies
      • Wikis, Blogs & More, Oh My!
  • Adobe Connect
    • Follow the Adobe Connect Job Aid to set up a meeting in Adobe Connect for right now.
    • Before you get started, you might also want to watch the Connect Pro Meeting Overview video. It explains each of the pods within Adobe Connect and the different features that exist.
    • Once you have set up the meeting, Enter the Meeting Room.
    • Look at the different features within Adobe Connect and try out a few of them.
    • • Getting started Help
      • Create a meeting Help
      • Create a new layout Help
      • Moving and renaming pods Help
      • Using audio and video Help
      • Uploading and using PPT Help
      • Setting up a poll Help
      • Creating break-out groups Help
      • Moving and renaming pods Help
      • Recording a session Help
      • Ask some of your classmates to join your meeting to see how the participants section works.
    • Other Social Interaction Tools
      • Wimba
      • Elluminate

  Day 1 - Assignments

  • If you have not already done so, email Gregg Koyamatsu at koyamats@mail.sdsu.edu and request an Adobe Connect account that you can use to set up your facilitation project.
  • Prepare a formal design proposal for Facilitation Exercise Part 2. The proposal must include the following:
    • Description of Lesson Content - Describe all aspects of your content. Begin by stating the overall goal of the lesson. Then, explain each of the objectives you would like to accomplish during the lesson (What should the participants know by the end of the lesson). Finally, describe each segment of your lesson and what you plan to "teach" during that piece.
    • Description of Instructional Design Strategies - Describe how the strategies you use within the course support your objectives and why you're using those specific strategies. Answer the questions of why you're using a particular method of instruction and how that relates to your goals and objectives. There are other questions you might want to answer, but these are a few to get you started.
      • What type of questioning methods are you using and why are those appropriate for this content and audience?
      • Why did you organize the content this way?
      • What is the purpose of the collaborative aspects of your lesson?
      • Did you use any role-play or break-out groups and why did you use those for that particular topic?
      • What type of assessment strategies did you implement and why?
      • Did you use any real-world scenarios or problem-based learning and what was the purpose of those strategies relative to the content and audience?
    • Adobe Connect Features Used - Adobe Connect has a variety of features, some of which you will use during Facilitation Exercise Part 1 and Facilitation Exercise Part 2. Some of these features include: screen sharing, file uploads, polling, chat, whiteboard, break-out groups, etc. Decide which features within Adobe Connect will promote your participants' learning and why. How will these features help meet your objectives and how do these support your instructional design strategies?
    • Storyboard - Create a storyboard of your Adobe Connect room. How do you want to arrange your pods and what is the purpose for putting them in those particular places? You can also rename your pods, so you might want to consider renaming the pods to indicate a more specific purpose. In addition, you can create your own layouts and create new layouts for different segments of your lesson. You can see tutorials on how to change the pods and layouts in the Adobe Connect Resource Center under Tutorials & Articles > Meeting > Meeting Management. Your storyboard needs to be uploaded to this forum. Just click on Post a New Forum Topic and upload the file. Include a brief description of your design decisions. You can see an Example Storyboard in the Student Forum. Make sure you open the attachment to see the storyboard that has been uploaded to the forum.

    Post your proposal on the Facilitation Exercise Part 2 Proposal forums linked above. This proposal is due on Day 3 of the course.

  • Begin working on Facilitation Exercise Part 1 - Due Day 3